Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation 1996 towards Empowering Communities

March 11, 2010 - PRLog -- Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation 1996
(Rainbow Women & Children Welfare Foundation)  

Working with the disadvantage people
Mattering to self sustaining development


Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation a community centered organization engaged in pro-poor activities with the approach of integrated development since its inception in 1996


Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation believes:
1.   In the potential power of the poor to participate actively in development initiatives within their community.
2.   In equal opportunity for man and women in society irrespective of class, age, ethnic, culture or religion.
3.   In freedom of expression, movement and choice by man and woman alike.
4.   In social harmony free from communal bias.  

Contact:
Mohammad Khairul Alam
Executive Director
Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation
24/3 M. C. Roy Lane
Nobabgonj-Section
Dhaka-1211
Bangladesh
E-mail: Rainbowngo@gmail.com
Web: http://rainbowdhaka.onsugar.com/
Tel: +880-2-8628908,
Mobile: +88-01711344997


Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation’s Activities


FAMILY PLANNING INTERVENTIONS:

With view to reduce over population from Bangladesh Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan foundation emphasis on family planning as it is one of the most important and vital components of health program. The staff put their earnest efforts to raise awareness about the benefits of having a small family and to increase the percentage of users of family planning devices through motivation. Therefore, the program staff provided trainings on how to use contraceptives and distributed the materials (in a small scale) among the fertile couples within the target groups. Such training campaign has got a momentum as well as popularity in the project domain.


EDUCATION PROGRAM:

Bangladesh is a being a poor country here illiteracy is considered as a curse of getting development. So education is necessary for human and social development and it is a basic human right. Unfortunately, the people of our country are still suffering from the curse of illiteracy. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation believes that as soon as the people of our country will ascend on the educational ladder, economic and political stability will be restored and; as a consequence, a just society will be established.

Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation upholds emphasis on Basic Education (BE) comprising functional education, literacy, post literacy/continuous education, livelihood development, life skill development, adult education, early childhood education, human resource development and so on for keeping its target groups (disadvantaged and poorest people especially women and children) on the right track towards sustainable future. So it stared its function to spread the light of education among the illiterate people. Internalizing the fact, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation started its Education Program back in 1996 through providing need-based education to the community people catering to them. Our education programs/projects/courses are designed to provide literacy and numeric along with general knowledge, skills and values to the target groups through constructive and basic education. The activities under Education Program includes about 20 general social issues, such as nutrition, environment, pollution issues, basic business management, child care, prevention of communicable common diseases, health and hygienic, balance diet, family planning, HIV/AIDS/STDs prevention, personal health care, leadership development etc. It contains Community Demand Driven (CDD) and problem solving holistic approach. The BE classes have proved to be an excellent forum for group information and motivation.

Since 1996 under education program, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation has been conducting and organizing institutional development program making the disadvantaged people organized through group formation that they can be able to achieve necessary life skills and develop leadership within effective and comprehensive interaction. For example, through its three adult education centers in urban areas of Dhaka City, about three hundred illiterate beneficiaries are getting the opportunities to take complete livelihood development oriented education in every shift. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation offered an opportunity for education to the adolescent girls from the poor and landless families within the program intervention areas who either have never been enrolled in a formal school or have been dropped out due to extreme poverty as well.
 
Recently, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation launched its primary education program called Basic Education for Working Adolescents and Street Children (BEWASC) to provide access to the working children with basic rights to primary education, especially who do not have the family support or whose families are dysfunctional. So far, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation has established two BEWASC schools with the funding from dedicated individuals from the community and through the organizations own fund as a pilot project.

BASIC EDUCATION FOR WORKING ADOLESCENTS (BEWA) PROGRAM:

Having vast experience of working with people living under the poverty line, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation has been endeavoring to understand the basic problem of the poor. BEWA is a continuous effort of the organization to utilize the experience concerning such poor people as well as adolescents since 1996.

Several NGOs provided the necessary materials and curriculum for this pilot project as per mutual support harmony. The duration of the course has been designed for one year, where there are 4 teachers for conducting the course and the target students are mostly the adolescents between 8-14 years of age all working class or street children. The BEWA classes start in between 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm and continue for two hours. The times are to set according to the students’ convenience, as the students are more than often engaged in working.

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Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation a community centered organization engaged in pro-poor activities with the approach of integrated development since its inception in 1996