Ensuring A Better Life

Durnibar believes everyone has the right for a better living. We are committed to working for a world without poverty where every individual can exercise their right for a life of dignity. Thus, we work at different levels to ensure so, which includes: Research, Consultant, Human Right, Gender, Woman impairments, Agricultures, Water & Sanitation, Health, Non formal & Adult Education, etc .We aim to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequity that cause it.

We practice the 3ps:

Step (1) Protection:

“Giving A Man A Fish” 

 Involves providing temporary relief to victims of poverty and lack of basic needs.

Durnibar aims to protect every helpless individuals oppressed by inconsiderate superiors, strangled by chains of poverty.

Poverty and Hunger

These words are closely linked. Durnibar works to improve food supplies and prevent famine by providing seeds, tools, animal feed, fertilizer, loans. Durnibar also campaigns for people’s rights to food, and for fairer trade and patent laws that don’t discriminate poor people.

Clothes and Shelter

Shelter is the point which creates a huge gap in between the rich and poor.

Inadequate housing and infrastructure facilities pose direct threats to children’s physical safety. Poor people often live in temporary homes constructed with whatever impermanent, basic materials available. They frequently have little option but to live on marginal land with the consequence that they are the first to suffer the effects of earthquakes, landslides, cyclones and floods. Accommodation is detrimental to children’s wellbeing. Thus Durnibar holds a yearly campaign, distributing clothes and construction materials to accommodate ones deprived from such basic needs. This ensures every child is brought up, furnished with basic requirements one requires to sustain a living.

Helping poor people exercise their Basic Rights

Poor people are often denied their most basic rights of safe water, food, education, shelter, healthcare and a life of dignity. Many have little say in the decisions that affect their lives, so generation after generation is condemned to a life of poverty and uncertainty. By focusing on people’s basic rights, Durnibar is able to take a long-term view of development.

Step (2) Prevention:

“Teaching A Man To Fish”

Involves making people more precocious and aware.

Durnibar believes it is a civil society actor. It has a specific agenda for the improvement of society, and acts on the desire to advance and improve the human condition especially through education and training.

Adult Literacy:

A recent survey in the slums brought out the fact that every 4 adults out of 7 living in slums of Bangladesh are under graduates. The remaining 3 never went to school.

This regrettable news has brought Durnibar to extend a hand offering adult education that is cost free. With the strength of promising efforts made by volunteers from across the nation, Durnibar aims to reduce poverty through education as it believes, “education is the only path of hope.”

Training:

Impoverished living conditions affect children’s educational opportunities and achievement in two ways. The increased likelihood of young children working domestically or in the informal sector to boost household income diminishes the opportunity for children to participate in educational activities. This is especially true of girls, who tend to shoulder significant household responsibilities. Secondly, insecure, temporary housing in overcrowded areas, or rough living on the streets, is clearly not conducive to formal study or learning.

Thus Durnibar steps up to solve this problem through training adults so that children do not become part of what we know as cheap labor and families can earn more. In exchange the families ensure Durnibar Foundation that they will send their children to school. Street children in Dhaka have learned skills in driving, catering, masonry, surveying, recycling, composting and household electrification, often as part of construction projects and related activities, alongside with education due to successful steps taken by Durnibar.

Children Education:

Durnibar’s education work focuses on primary education for children and also on adult literacy. Durnibar provides informal primary education for children who can’t attend school due to the cost or distance by the performance of interested volunteers and necessary funds. Not only this, Durnibar volunteers frequently check to make sure if governmental schools are active enough in teaching children. At times, Durnibar takes necessary steps to provide stationary, bags and other accessories that are likely to create a learning environment. Campaigns are set up to pressurize the government to live up to their promises and provide free, quality education for all: regardless of their living standards.

Step (3) Promotion:

“Organising a Fisherman Co op”

Involves increasing people’s chances and opportunities.

Promoting Gender equality:

In developing regions, as a whole, 95 girls were enrolled in primary school for every 100 boys in 2007, compared to 91 in 1991.  Significant gaps remain in some regions. In South and West Asia, 66 per cent of out-of-school children are girls.

Nearly two thirds of all employed women in developing countries work either as contributing family workers or as own-account workers, extremely vulnerable employment which lacks security and benefits. This simply explains that there is still gender inequality in the society of today.

Durnibar plays an important role in promoting gender equality. Some Volunteering works are held to make sure that no small child is forced to remain at home only because they re girls. In addition, financial help and support is also provided by the Durnibar family so that the light of education faces no constriction due to the intervention of parents.

Creation of local jobs:

A recent study has proven that creation of local jobs not only cuts down unemployment rates but also gives rise to improvements in the society. Creation of local work through skill development activities and informal education play an important role in providing a base for the poor to develop and grow. Durnibar encourages so by providing funds and basic assistance required to set up working divisions (such as for local constructions groups, local food harvesting groups, etc) in the community.

Due to the contribution of Durnibar and its supporting organisations, today, many slums in poverty stricken areas of Dhaka city have their own group of local constructors, who help in local improvement schemes end the extra payment helps to increase their income.

HIV/ AIDS awareness programs

Durnibar believes that HIV/ AIDS is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today. Durnibar’s international campaign is challenging rich countries and individuals to play their part in controlling the epidemic. Durnibar has also provided practical support to affected communities, trained counselors and health educators, formed networks of local AIDS support groups and HIV-positive activists, and developed the local aids awareness programs.

Promoting change internationally

Durnibar’s advocacy work helps poor people make their voices heard by those who have the power to change things. International campaign teams working on education, food and HIV/AIDS continue to lobby governments, corporations, the media and financial institutions so that they take account of the needs of poor people.