Project Report
| May 6, 2023
Integrated farming converts a home to business
By M. Sabrin Ahmed Roty | Project Leader
BEDS has been working for the development of the Sundarbans coastal community since 2013. The coastal people live below the poverty line and do not know how to get maximum benefit from the minimum resources. BEDS has been trying to promote integrated farming in this region. BEDS trained the local community on home stead gardening, fish farming, poultry and livestock rearing. BEDS taught the community to use each of the component of their household for income generating activities and also supported some of the local women. Now they are rearing livestock as well as poultry in their house. They use the yard of their home for vegetable cultivation and also discharge fishes in the pond. Now, every sector of their household become production and the women are getting monetary benefit from the products. Now every house has become a small business model.
There are lots of hard working coastal women who need the support for their economic benefit. We are requesting all our donors to start monthly recurring donation. Please click the following link; https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/changing-life-by-empowering-women/?show=recurring
Apr 29, 2023
Mangrove based products for coastal improvement
By M. Sabrin Ahmed Roty | Project Leader
Sundarbans coastal region is widely known for its unique natural beauty as well as vulnerability of the local people. Sundarbans coastal region is disaster prone due to it’s geographic condition. On this region, BANOJIBI has been established at Dacope adjacent to Sundarbans. On the BANOJIBI, local people come and produce different mangrove based non wood forest products like mangrove pickle, mangrove molasses, mangrove honey and other different products. They are processing and packaging their developed products in BANOJIBI and selling them all over the country. Those products are also available in online market of Bangladesh. Now the local community are getting monetary benefit from the products.
BEDS has established BANOJIBI and there are lots of deprived women in this region. BEDS is unable to support more women due to the lack of funding support. So, it’s a heartiest appeal to all the donors for being kind to help those vulnerable women to give them a chance to come out from the cycle of poverty and lead a respectful life.
We are requesting all our donors to start monthly recurring donation. Please click the following link; https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/changing-life-by-empowering-women/?show=recurring
Apr 13, 2023
Help coastal women to lead a better life
By M. Sabrin Ahmed Roty | Project Leader
Most of the people adjacent to Sundarbans depend on the forest resources for their livelihood. The life people of this region is quite challenging. The women of Mathurapur village live below the poverty line and are the victim of natural disasters. Every year, cyclones visit in this area. This is a highly saline area which creates several health issues for women and they could not take some protective measures due to their poverty. It is very difficult for them to conduct perform agricultural activities due to high salinity and disasters. Moreover, they have no land of their own. They use to earn money by harvesting Sundarbans resources; mainly collecting shrimp fry. Even they do not have educational qualification to get a job. They use to lead a miserable life where there is lack of food, drinking water, cloth, nutrition. The women are deprived of the basic human needs. They are grooving in the darkness of poverty.
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) has been working to improve the living standard of the women of the coastal women (Mathurapur village Munshijang union of Shyamnagar sub district of Satkhira district) by providing several training and also encouraging them. Capacity building training and sewing equipments are necessary for the women to improve their life standard. So, BEDS has taken an initiative to empower 50 women of Mathurapur village by developing their skill on sewing and also providing them equipments related to sewing through raising fund from GlobalGiving platform.
So, it’s a heartiest appeal to all the donors for being kind to help those vulnerable women to give them a chance to come out from the cycle of poverty and lead a respectful life.
We are requesting all our donors to start monthly recurring donation. Please click the following link; https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/changing-life-by-empowering-women/?show=recurring