The coronavirus pandemic demonstrates the necessity of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and balanced diet. However, the participating countries have been struggling from a similar problem to an aware mass population on dietary requirements to maintain a healthy lifestyle especially to the poor. Therefore, the partnership planned to swap young professionals among partner’s aims to escalate the internal competencies on nutrition and health care to ensure good health of the target population of PAHAL, KrY and ASPADA in respective country settings. The internal competency comprises approach, tools, skills, and practice of participating countries which we intend to exchange through this collaboration project.

The project has been implementing activities targeting vocational skills building of poor youth girls who drop out from school through the Ostad-Sagrat model. It selected 150 young girls aged between 18-25 years and engaged them with MCPs for their hands-on skill building training. It has conducted local area surveys to select apprentices and Master craft person (MCPs) and link them as Ostad and Sagrat for 6-month duration hands on training on the particular trades that have market demands. End of the training the project will support trainees for job placement at least 70% and the remaining 30% will be entrepreneurs with the capital support of the organization. In sum, the project is deploying efforts to improve employable skills of destitute young girls and engaging them into work for income generation.

The project Bangladesh Rural Water, Sanitation & Hygiene for Human Capital Development, co-financed by the Government of Bangladesh, the World Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), with the aims of improving access to safely managed water supply and sanitation in selected areas of Mymensingh district and strengthen institutional capacity for water and sanitation services. It has been facilitating household water loans, sanitation and hygiene loans, and local entrepreneur loans for increasing sanitation material availability locally. Also, local entrepreneurs are receiving proper training and other assistance for constructing hygienic toilets and safely managed WASH facilities at the household level and promotes twin pit toilets throughout the target areas including mass awareness raising.  

Considering the climate change and WASH scenario in the rural and urban culture of Bangladesh, it is assumed that in the long run people will suffer from the water product such as pure drinking water, sanitation facility, hygiene facility which are the impediment of human capital development. Therefore, the organization has been implementing projects with the support of Buro Bangladesh and Water.org to capacity building of microfinance staff to enable them for designing new water loan products and facilitate them among the borrowers. It is working for both side demand creation and loan disbursement.

The project has conducted a baseline survey in the targeted Mymensingh city corporation area to find child labor in the 38 selected hazardous sectors/small industries. It selected 892 child labor who working in the hazardous sector and established 36 schools in the city corporation area for 6 months to teach them fundamental education. At the end of non-formal education, it rearranges learners among 45 skill building training centers for boosting their skills in the preferable trades.  The project arrange skill building training on tailoring and dress making, beauty parlor/beautification, block-boutique printing and embroidery, radio and tv mechanic, woodwork and cycle-rickshaw repairing etc. After evaluation, the project provides support to get safe employment and entrepreneurship development.

The project has been specially designed and being implemented to expand the household resources and human capabilities for integrated household-based development. The health component of this project deliberate door to door primary health care service, static clinic, satellite clinic, and referral services. The nutrition component also ensures advisory service and awareness building among the target population. In addition, to enhance the capability of human resource establish 28 tutorial centers aim to protect school dropouts and enabling good education.

ASPADA Paribesh Unnayan Foundation corroborates the poor brilliant students to facilitate education through long term scholarship from its own fund. It provides all educational expenditure in different levels of students including school, college, general and technical universities like engineering, medical and agricultural education under this program. At the beginning of the month, 317 students received allocated funds through bank transactions aimed to smooth continuation of his education in the reputed institutions. It’s a continuous process, in every month new entities include or exclude the completed students without any refund or any other conditions. This is an absolute philanthropy activity the organization has been performing with the whim of esteemed founder and executive director Mr. Md. Abdur Rashid.

Training is one of the components of a project. There was a provision for providing training to the project beneficiaries to make them skilled in their field of interest and improvement of their socio-economic level. Through installation of deep tube-wells we brought vast crop lands under irrigation facilities so that they could cultivate field crops including vegetables round the year. It also encouraged farmers’ households to establish biogas plants, improve stove, livestock farming using environment friendly technology developed by RDA.