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.