Promoting Natural Farming Practices in Bangladesh

Many fishermen live in the coastal areas of Sundarbans due to the rich fish resources in this ecosystem. They earn their livelihood by catching and selling fish and crab. Fishing is the major profession among different professionals of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh. Fishermen of the Sundarbans region live from hand to mouth i.e. they lead their life by catching and selling fish every day. Generally the fishermen children don’t get the opportunity of higher education and they join their parents’ profession that is fishing. Many students get dropped out due to financial crisis and they get involved in catching fish in childhood to support their family.

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.

Currently, BEDS is trying to raise fund from GlobalGiving to improve livelihood of 50 drop out children. Target grant of the proposed project is 25,700 $ and so far, 843 $ is raised.

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

We want to thank all our donors for being with us. We hope that you will be continuously with us for our community and assist them to lead a sound life.