I work here as a volunteer Programme Officer for Ethnic Community Development Organisation (ECDO). We now have a website, so you can find out more about ECDO at http://www.ecdo-bd.org
ECDO is a small NGO, with only four full-time staff excluding me, and we run education and health projects for the indigenous people of the region, the vast majority of whom live in small villages in extreme poverty.
As well as VSO (who facilitate my volunteering with ECDO), Oxfam and Action Aid fund two major projects that we implement.
I am helping ECDO build up their external communications, create a strategic plan, develop other fundraising sources, organise a new information management system, develop an advocacy programme, and conduct a major Participatory Rural Appraisal research project in 15 villages, amongst more mundane things such as fixing the printer.
I have just started running a Global Citizenship project with nine teenagers from a local school, which I have set up with a school in London. I will link to the website for that soon.
I also go to a lot of weddings.
If anyone has any questions about my work here as a VSO volunteer, please feel free to post below.
Dear Sir,
Greeting from Sobuj Bangala Unnayan Sangstha (SBUS)-Gobindogonj, Gaibandha. It is a non-government organization (NGO), registration no is Gai/592/2000 dated 24-10-2000, come close to the poor people with particular emphasis to bring out positive changes in their life and livelihoods. SBUS realized that proper education, massive awareness and women empowerment are very prior to develop to change the condition and position of rural men and women. SBUS has been carried over its experimental project very successfully. At resent, community people are showing the continuous encouragement and inspiration for socialization.
Vision of SBUS is Fair, free, just and equitable society, Mission is “No relief and credit but release”, efforts towards development on behalf of rural poor and tribal through integrated and effective policy advocacy with special concern to deprived children, disabled and women. As well as Goal is to be developed socio-economic status of the people of underprivileged and disadvantaged poor people living in Gaibandha district
Objectives is
§ Increase literacy rate within the working areas
§ Ensure enrolment of drop out and poorest children in education and encourage adult people for education
§ Create massive awareness on different development issues through effective social mobilization
§ Campaign to stop early marriage, acid throwing, dowry, child trafficking, domestic violence etc Efforts to establish human rights at family and society level
§ Unite people and strengthened their united capacity
§ Support to access different level service delivery provision
§ Influence policy advocacy to increase responsiveness of service providers
§ Transform human being into resources by adequate skill transfer training Protect and reinstate antique culture of the tribal people who are the old neighbours of the country
Rescue and evacuation for the disaster affected people
CORE PROGRAMMES OF SBUS are (A)Education Programme, (B) Capacity Building Programme (C)Gender , Justice and Governance Programme (D) Disaster & Environment Management Programme.
Under this circumstances, lacking of NGO net work, I am enable to procedure my programme, For this reason I want to be a membership and enrollment with your network. I Therefore, I pray and hope that you would be kind enough to accept our organization, and provide me a member with your network. I will be grateful to you.
I am looking forward to receiving your cordial response.
Sincerely
Professor Tapash Dev
Project Director
SBUS-Gobindagonj
Gaibandha