Promoting Natural Farming Practices in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) has supported 20 Sheep to the Sundarbans coastal people that is the villagers of Banishanta union of Dacope sub district of Khulna district. The supported villagers are nurishing those sheep with great care. Now the number has increased up to 42. Day before yesterday one beautiful lamb got born. 

The supported people are now very happy with those sheep. They expect that these sheep will bring them luck. Many of the supported villagers left their previous profession of forest resource harvesting. It becomes a means of alternative livelihood. But there are many more marginal villagers live in the coastal region who deserve same support. So, we should think about those poor and deprived villagers.

We would like to thank all our donors for being so kind to us so far. We are requesting all our kind hearted donors to spread out their helping hands to support the marginal people through starting recurring donation.  

Alternative livelihood is really essential for the forest dwellers of the Sundarbans coastal region of Bangladesh. Forest dwellers (fishermen, honey collectors and nipa collectors) usually take huge risks for collecting the natural resources from the Sundarbans. People of this region have been doing this work generation after generation. They belong to a very poor socio economic condition. They can’t help going inside the forest for their living. Lack of alternative livelihood opportunities are the main reason why they are still in the profession of resource harvesting. Children of the families of forest dwellers generally don’t get the opportunity of higher education. Many students get dropped out due to financial crisis and they get involved in their fathers profession.

Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) is trying to develop the livelihood of marginal dropout children. We have already distributed some sheep among villagers, who mainly depend on Sundarbans natural resources. Through this, livelihood opportunity for villagers has been created, now they are leading a happy life. But there are a lot of dropout children in the Sundarbans coastal region who need equal help.

Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) is trying to raise fund from GlobalGiving to improve the livelihood of 50 dropped out children. Target grant of the proposed project is 25,700 $ and so far, 3358 $ is raised from 17 donations.

We are highly grateful to the donor for being so kind to us. We would like to request all our kind donors to start monthly recurring donations from now if you are interested to support us continuously.