OUR MISSION

Enhance capacity building of Private Voluntary Development Organizations (PVDOs) and community people, both urban and rural, to effect positive change in society by providing need-based, technical assistance and oversight

OUR VISION :

A congenial Society that afford equitable opportunities to all

OUR OBJECTIVES

• · To Organise Coastal area’s Village Volunteer Clubs
  · To Orzanise Capacity Building of Partner NGOs
  · To Organise Networking of Community based NGOs
  · To ensure Democracy Education and Social Justice
  
  • To strengthen the capacity of the community people in institution building.
  • To promote Maternal Child Health and Family Planning services,
  • To improve the level of nutrition & personal hygiene through health education.
  • To alleviate poverty of community people through income and employment generation.
  • To provide credit support to raise purchasing capacity of the community people.
  • To develop and raise the professional skill of the community people.
  • To ensure access to sanitation & safe drinking water in the community.
  To help improve community people’s disaster preparedness and rehabilitation capability.
  • To raise the level of literacy among the community people.
  • To promote ecologically balanced agriculture technology.
  • To promote social forestation in the target area to maintain ecological balance.
  • To create awareness on HIV/AIDS/STDs prevention in the community

RECENT ACHIVEMENT

BRAC CHAIRMAN FAZLE HASAN ABED VISIT CITIZEN RIGHTS FAIR,SUN STALL.
Dated on : February 20.2010
The concept of Nagorik Mela (Citizenship Fair) is to hold a fair on the idea of citizenship in a broad sense and from different angles. It is to be a concerted effort of various NGOs and other civil society organizations working for the rights of people directly or indirectly, who can showcase their ideas, programmes, products through demonstrations, talks, films/ documentary, theatre, cultural programmes, photography exhibition, etc. It can be both a platform for advocacy of their organizational programmes/ perspectives and a catalyst for different organizations to work together on an issue that all organizations in some way or other are addressing through their work. Thus it could include organizations like Grameen Bank, NGOs like BRAC, Proshika, Nijera Kori,SUN, human rights agencies like Ain-O-Shalish Kendra, BLAST, cultural organizations like Rupantar, associations who promote rights of ethnic groups through sale of their handicrafts, etc. We envision colourful festivity with stalls selling products from these different orgs, food, theatre and music performance, video showings, etc.

WORLD AIDS DAY 2009.-CANDLE LIGHT
CHIEF GUEST-A.S.M.SATTAR-DEPUTY CIVIL SURGION

WORLD AIDS DAY 2009-PRESS CONFRENCE

CHIEF GUEST TALUKDER MD.EUNUS-MP,MEMBER OF PARLAMENT

Seminar at Barisal BAR
http://www.thebangladeshtoday.com/archive/April%2009/7-4-2009.htm

Separation of judiciary and ‘Pro Bono’ concept ensure justice and human rights Participants of a day long brainstorming meeting held at Barisal on Saturday7.4.2009 said that separation of judiciary and developing 'Pro Bono' concept are essentials to establish justice in the society and to guard human rights against infringement. The program was organised by 'Save the Underprivileged and the Needy (SUN), a NGO, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs (MoLJPA) with assistance from United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Bangladesh have been organizing the same type of programs in Barisal, Dhaka, Khulna, Sylhet, Rajshahi and Cox's Bazaar since July 2007 under the project named 'promoting accesses to justice and human rights in Bangladesh'. The meeting was conducted by Nizam Uddin Anon Executive Director of SUN, presided over by Shekh Abdul Kader, Barisal district Bar Association President, and was attended by seventy legal practitioners, law officials, journalists, stake holders, Dr. Rana P. Sattar, Project Manager UNDP with Salma Binte Qadir, Joint Secretary of Ministries of LAW(MoLJPA), as the chief guest.A discussion on the concept paper of 'Pro Bono (Latin phrase 'pro bono publico' meaning for the people's welfare) and legal resources network in Bangladesh including state owned National Legal Aid Organization (NLAO), took lace in the program.In the paper, it was explained that 'Pro Bono' legal services concept is new in Bangladesh. Under this theme, 'Pro Bono' lawyers will work voluntarily as an integral part of morality of legal profession and social obligation without expecting any remuneration either from clients or any other sources. They called for developing 'Pro Bono' legal services forum with recognition for services rendered relating sustainability and community ownership of such services to the litigant in need as aspect that may not be assured by the public funded or donor supported legal aid projects. A network in bar associations, bar council and related institutions and introducing practical course about 'Pro Bono' in Bar/LLB/LLM, also suggested in the concept paper.However, it was expected in the discussion that these consultations would contribute towards developing strategic plans for establishment of a legal service network in Bangladesh with affiliation to other countries of the region for mutual sharing of experiences.The organizers of the program said that the project aims at providing institutional and technical supports to process initiated by the government to judicial sector reforms for establishing a human rights commission with a further strengthened, separated, independent judiciary.Focuses on capacity development of the law officers, legal profession, legal aid authority and civil society groups working on human rights and access to justice by forming Pro Bono Legal Services committees also elaborated in the program. The participants stressed on strengthen mechanism for promotion andprojection of human rights and the delivery of justice for all, particularly for the poor and other disadvantaged persons by empowering them through creating awareness of international human right norms.They called for enhancing access to justice and human rights for all disadvantaged and marginal groups through a right-based approach ensuring accountability and transparency in legal and judicial sector by separating

Relief Program Sidar effected People.

APACHA Orientation Meeting. 40 Chief executive officer of NGO'S attend this Meeting Dated on 30 July 2008

UNDP HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION VISIT SUN FIELD ACTIVITIES.
DATED ON: 21 MAY 2008

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Name of Project:
Awareness Education Program on Environmental Management.

Proposed Project Background:
Bangladesh is one of the least developed countries in south East Asia where poverty & vulnerability is the regular feature of the rural people’s life. The main reasons for poverty & vulnerability is due to lack of awareness & environmental degradation in respect of rapit urbanization, Reducing of wetland, industrial wastes, deforestati, non-judicial use of chemical fertilizer & pesticides (Dirty Zones), inadequate WASTSAN facilities and some other natural calamities. Consequences peoples suffering are increasing day by day life is endangering as well.
Justification: Bangladesh is an agricultural country and farming is the main livelihood of rural people. Approximately 80% of the families of Bangladesh are farm families. According to survey, research and study reports done by different organizations there is a general lack of awareness on modern agriculture system, equipments & technology especially on Health & Environment. It was reported that current vegetable production in Bangladesh meets only about 25% of the total requirement; obviously this is far short of the need. The present daily consumption in only about 30 grams per person against the average daily need of the about 200 grams. Similarly, fruits production & consumption rate is also below than vegetable consumption rate. Henceforth, poor villagers especially frames become sick and facing lots of health hazard ness. Similarly for keeping good environment 25% of forest is must, but as of different survey & study we have only 8% forest area. So, those factors are directly influencing the health & environment and it is also endanger for animal kingdom as well.
About 10% of the 14 million homes in Bangladesh have an average of 81 square meters of homestead land and a piece of rice plot along with small ditch pond where they can easily grown different vegetables & horticultural crops and start-up Rice Fish culture round the year through practicing of integrated farming & regenerative agriculture. So, considering is this situation SUN impels that Village Farm Family Development Program (VFFDP) through establishing of Regenerate agriculture program could be possible to address to poverty alleviation and overcoming the mal nutritional problems of the poor farm families life. Considering, the above mentioned condition on health & environment condition through awareness rising of the vulnerable people of the project area and ensure good health and environment conditions.

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Save our Children from Tobbacco ( Cigarrete) Factories.

Socio-economic background-a brief overview
Despite sustainable economic growth rate in the last successive years, Bangladesh is still categorized as poor country being half of all children are chronologically malnourished. Poverty endangers susceptibility and vulnerability, particularly for the children, at family and economic levels. The structural poverty, as it appears today, have plunged millions of children into extreme poverty.

Job is very much scared for the people particularly poor low skilled labor class in general and women and children in particular and are very much vulnerable to many respects.

Apart from major bidi producing districts elsewhere in the country, there are two well known factories named Karikor and Sultani Bidi employs nearly 3000 regular labors in their 5 branches in Barisal sadar. The consequential effect of river erosion, widespread poverty adds miseries to the huge number of people landless, migrants and is often vulnerable to social insecurity, and risk of being trafficked. Many of the workers engaged in bidi industry are the erosion-victims.
The workers in these factories are coming from neighboring villages. The hazardous conditions in bidi factory and the exploitation of children by adult workers as well as the absence of trade unions makes it clear that there is none to represent them and children are unable to take their grievances to the authorities. As those factories are located in City Corporation but actually in village vicinity, many children are found to be working with their parents and with adult.

Because of joblessness, subsistence economic situation, acute poverty at family level, many children in the neighboring villages are not found going to school. Thus illiteracy seems to be one of the major contributors for increasing child labor in the program area. An overwhelming majority of the adult workers, in many cases the parents of child bidi workers, have reportedly stopped schooling at early ages for economic reasons. In addition parents also believe the education does not bring immediate benefits, rather incurs substantial long term investment that can be easily utilized for immediate family subsistence.

The incidence of malnutrition and health related problems are also high among the working children for bidi industries.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Name Position Education Profession
Dr. Rafique Uddin Ahmed. Chairman. PhD,MSS, Development activist
Mr. Alauddin Shikder, Vice- Chairman, BSC, BED. Educationist
Mr. Sakhawat Hossain Zumman. Treasurer. MA, L L B. Lawyer
Mr. Nizam Uddin Anon. Executive Director. MSS.IDVM. Development Activist
Ms. Naharin Parvin. Member. BA , Development. Activist
Ms. Habiba Islam happy. Member. MA. Development Activist
Ms. Fatema-Tuj-Zahra. Member. MA. Development Activist
Mr. Rabin Karmaker, Member. BA , Development. Activist
Ms.Papri Ray. Member. MSS . Development Activist