Promoting Natural Farming Practices in Bangladesh

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.

The Sundarbans is the single largest mangrove forest in the world. Almost 3.5 million of Sundarbans costal people depend on the Sundarbans natural resource. Most of the Sundarbans costal people’s livelihood depends on the mangrove resources. The natural resources of the Sundarbans are limited; but day by day ‍increasing number of people is egging with Sundarbans resources. So pressure on the natural resources is increasing at an alarming rate.

Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) is focused on nature conservation through livelihood improvement of the poor communities. Mathurapur (Jelley Polly) fishermen village is adjacent of the Sundarbans in the south west part of Bangladesh. There are 75 families live in this village. Due to their unconsciousness, parents are not interested in their children’s education. In this village, there are many dropout children working with the parents and harvest Sundarbans natural resources.

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 have been communicating with our target community regularly and discussing with them about future initiatives on their better life and livelihood.

We are highly grateful to the donor for being so kind to us. We would like to thank all our donors for their continuous support. We hope that you will be continuously with us for our community and assist them to lead a better life.