NON-FORMAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH & NUTRITION SUPPORT OF THE DISABLE CHILDREN

Project Duration:               Initially One (1) Year, later on extended considering  the evaluation results and recommendations.

Implementing NGO:       Animation Liberate for Organise (ALO),
                                            Vill: Nowdagram, 
                                            Post:+ Dist: – Jessore
                                            Post Box-20, Jessore-7400,
                                            Bangladesh.       
                                            E-mail: alo2002org@yahoo.com  

Contact persons:               Md. Anisur Rahman,
                                            Executive Director,
                                            Vill: Nowdagram,
                                            Post + Dist: – Jessore
                                            Post Box-20, Jessore-7400,
                                            Bangladesh.
                                            E-mail: alo2002org@yahoo.com   

Bank Information;             Animation Liberate For Organize (ALO),

Legal Status:                  Registration Number and Date,
                                            a) Department Social Welfare- DSS No-   484 / 19-05-1997
                                            b) Department Youth development JUO No 35 / 04-08-2003
                                            c) NGO Affairs Bureau-         FDO/R No-1711 / 01-04-2002       

Background and purpose of the organization:

The ALO has been established in 1994, is a non-profit voluntary development organization by a group of young men and women with the purpose of stretching out the helping hand to the poor and underprivileged peoples especially the women of the society in the process of development, social promotion and improvement of their overall socio-economic conditions.

Animation Liberate for Organize (ALO) is a project implementing organization. Executive Director of the organization Md. Anisur Rahman with initiation of a group of some like-minded highly educated social workers founded this organization and he has been working with 27 staffs.  Since inception, it is working with the goal of promoting the socio-economic status of the poor, underprivileged and back –warded people, especially the women and children through undertaking appropriate and sustainable programs with its community based integrated approaches.

ALO’s philosophy is the belief in the intrinsic value of each individual. The development of the individual is intimately bound up with that of the community she or he lives in. Within the basic promise of belief in the individual’s power to bring about changes in his or her life, ALO’s aims to facilitate the process of promoting human rights, education, social justice, ecological balance, harmony and peace in the community by covering exploitation, gender discrimination poverty Alleviation infirmity, illiteracy, unemployment, and all forms of injustices through systematic non-violent action.

In course of the implementation period , ALO has been working various activities with different national and international development agencies including United Nations Education Scientific and cultural Organisation (UNESCO-France), Catholic Teachrs Association, Canada. Sight Saver International, Intermediate Technology Development Group, Bangladesh (ITDG-Bangladesh), Action Against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation (ATSEC-Bangladesh chapter), Bangladesh Rehabilitation Centre for Troma Victim (BRCT), NIJERA SHIKHI, BANCHTE- SHEKHA, Khan Foundation, Ministry of Forest and Environment,   NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation provide necessary support to the different programs of ALO.

ALO implemented 11 projects with the support of its partner organization including Community Based Water Supply and Sanitation Project, Non-formal Primary Education Program, Hard to Reach ‘ Basic Education for Urban Working Children, Community Based Rehabilitation Program. Sustainable Agriculture Project, Disaster Management Program, Technology Transfer for Group Members, Legal Aid and awareness, social forestry Sector Project, Women and Child Trafficking, Voter Education ,   

The organization runs its activities following a holistic approach with the help of its three –staged management authority. The General Committee (GC) comprised of  21 members takes part in policy making for the organization sitting at least once in a year while the Executive Committee (EC) consisting of 7 members elected / selected by the GC for two years acts as the supreme policy – making body for the projects and programs of the organization. It meets at least 4 times in a year. On the other hand, the Executive Office (EO) headed by an Executive Director (ED) involves execution of projects and programs by number of program and administrative staffs, workers and professionals. There are 27 Executive Staffs in the organization including 11 permanent, 13 Temporary and 03 volunteer staffs.

 Partnership with the Organization:

Source of funds:

Management committee of the Organization:

Name, position and contact of the board or trustees of the organization:

Number of board members:                7

Number of paid staff and/or volunteers:         Paid staff = 12, volunreers = 27.

Number and position of male and female staff:

The ALO has a three principal management organ as follows:

# A General Committee consists of 21 members who meet at least once a year.

# An Executive Committee consists of 7 members’ elected/selected by the GC for a period of two years.

# An Executive Office headed by a Director.

Ongoing activities

1. To eradicate illiteracy imparting child education.
2. To develop the socioeconomic condition of the targeted people through organizing them into small groups, capital formation, motivation and non-formal education.
3. To identify the problems and resources of the targeted people and taking steps / initiatives to solve the problems with their own efforts.
4. To make the targeted people skill, conscious, and qualified through arranging training seminar and workshop.
5. To develop disable people.
6. To created favorable health atmosphere and to control population growth through providing primary health and family planning education
7. To eradicate social barriers religious superstitious, injustices, exploitation, deprivation
8. To lessen social diseases like divorce, abandon, separation, dowry, and torture through increasing the social value of women and participation in decision-making.
9. To develop the local environmental situation through  social afforestetion and nursery development.
10. To provide advocacy and training about  HIV/AIDS and STD to the risky community.
11. To educate the farmers on regenerative agricultural development.
12. To undertake relief and rehabilitation activities at the time of disaster period to help the victims.To eradicate poverty through applying new technology in the agriculture
13. To develop water, and sanitation.

2.3 Socio-economic situation of the project area:

The project shall be implemented in Jessore District . A country does not depend its progress on its building , roads and many kinds of fruits. It depends on its education rate. Similarly a country depends on its economy which is as important subject. As Bangladesh is poor and developing country, her economy is not strong to maintain everything. The people of target areas of this project are poor and they live below the poverty line. They live hand to mouth.  

Though they have been living in the urban areas they can’t enjoy the urban facilities like water supplies, electricity, roads and others No health services are available and accessible to these slums. Still women of these slums are dependent on the “Traditional Birth Attendants” for the delivery purposes.

The peoples of these slums are mainly wage earners, Rickshaw pullers, small shop keepers, Vendors, hawkers small business etc per capita income US $ 37-40/month and with the income they can hardly meet their daily requirement.

Aim of the project:  The aim of the project is to give non-formal education and vocational training through providing health and nutrition support for the Disable Children.

Goal: Non-formal education and vocational training for the disable children.

Object of the project:

To organization the poor disability children girls and boys  in our working area to give education and skill training development to strengthen their ability.

To increase consciousness to build up their creativeness that  they could be understand their position in the society.

To operate non-formal education center toward improve their technical and skill

capacity and make them literate under this projects activities.

To provided skill basic training on the handicraft with which they can create their own house a market for earning the income source.

To arrange meeting for the guardians

To provide health and nutrition support.

To give them non-formal education to the poorest disable increase  general knowledge.

Summary

Animation Liberate For Organize (ALO) is non-Govt. Voluntary Organization. It has been working with various kind of projects. It is also working with disable children. There are so many children who live in the target area of various ages.  For this reason, the Organization is going to start a project in Jessore Powroshaba under Jessore District on the Disable children who are in extreme distress and suffering. For their proper non-formal education and vocational training on handicraft. ALO will also provide them health and nutrition support as light Tiffin. Their age is 05-12. Total 200 disable children will be taken for their education and skill training. Our selection committee will select 200 disable children and will make 10 groups and In each group, 20 disable children will be taken. The disable children are affected by different type of accidents. They have been disables by vehicle accident, falling from trees, by born, and from the play ground etc. In ALO’s the disable children will come to take education and skill training on handicraft how to make candle stick. This educational cum skill training center has all modern educational system and process. The people of the local area are completely unconscious about the disable children. They do not get proper education, treatment, health support and nutrition support. They are neglected in everywhere. People see them as invalid human beings in the society. But ALO has observed that the disable children have latent talent. If they are given proper training, they will be able to income.

Logic of  the project.

ALO has observed that the disable children are deprived from all kind of basic human facilities in the society. For this, this ALO has taken to establish a education cum skill training center for them. Different type of Disables will come in the education Center to receive non-formal education and skill development training. General people think about them as useless and invalid & unskilled human beings in the society. When they walk on the road,  the people laugh at them and sometime naughty children tease them. Most of the time during walking, they tumble and fall on the road. At this they face more loss and destructive things. Due to financial inability, they can not receive any education. If they get this facility from this project, their life will be smooth and easy.  They will be able to receive education and skilled development training very smoothly. Their honor will be increase. When they will be skilled on handicraft, they will be able to create income opportunity. Being disable, they will be given training on a very simple of making candle.

Plan of Operation of the Project:

Firstly we have already surveyed the field of 5 Union of Jessore Sader Upazila under Jessoer District and have taken initiative 30 disable boys and 20 disable girls who are also 7-15 years old, in Jessore Sadar under Jessore the following on of disable children are also providing small and something support with variables:

In the above mention disable boys and girls who are enlisted in our register:

15 disable boys and 10 disable girls  are one leg paralyzed and start they are take  steps lamely on the stick.

5 disable boys and 2 disable girls are two leg paralyzed not able to move on the plain land depended on the two household are.

10 disable boys and 8 disable girls are broken down their hands. They can not use  their hands to eating or any household works.

Therefore, we will be next taken the action plan to technical training on the handicrafts making in their household works.

To give them non-formal primary education for increasing general knowledge and free from illiterate position.

To give them material supports for moving easily in here and there.

To give them normally surgical treatment in to the local government sadar hospital for curing their disable position.

To arrange 6 parents meeting in a year and discuss about the present position of their children and EPL activities and to take polio drop to 0-30 years children in future not to realize the paralyze hoping cough azna and hum etc 

We will be action directly as follows:

Materials support 07 no of wheal chair will be supported to 07 disable children.

25 wooden a pair of crutch will be supported to 25 disable children.

18 no of disable children. we will be provide technical training on the making handicrafts.

6 parents meeting will be arranged in the local union parised including local union parised Chairman members and elite.

Lastly we will be taken broadly steps to arrange workshop / seminar to show our activities to the general public and its result and base fit.

Impact and result of the implementation of the project.

Result and benefit of the project implementation in over mentioning working area will must be appreciated impact on the program activities on the program activities in the public:

The proposal parents of disable children. will be minded as burden their disable children.

The parents disable children. will get permanent support to realise their mental satisfactory.

The poorest disable children. will get surgical treatment with free of cost.

To poorest disable children. will get moving material with free of cost.

We would be liked to see to free form polio and other diseases Bangladesh.

General people will be realised their consciousness and awareness from the disability condition what a bad and for action of the disability position.

Personal Selection for the proposed Project:

The skill personnel above mention who is already involvement in the running Disability project continuously. All these personnel. ALO has been salary and honorarium regularly fill now. Above mention personnel has been provided skill medical training from the health and family planning department.

We would be like this project activates to help and save the poorest Disable children very much.

Training Module:

Our target 50 disable girls and boys will be provide skill technical training in our organization for 5 days.

It is our running program activities. We have been realized this program activates from 2002. First time we have been provided them motivation parents meeting simple medical treatment suggestion and decision provide regularly. All times we have coordinated with them and their parents to suggest them for earring their Disable children regularly. Not to be punished and torching them and not to be kept them mental anxieties whole of them.

Head Wise Project Budget

Total Project Cost BDT          490.350

ALO Contribute                      156.000

Donor Contribute                  334.350

Total Project Cost (BDT) Fore Lac Ninety Thousand Three Hundred Fifty Taka Only.’