www.daff-bangladesh.org
Cultivate
The Goal
Development Assistance for Farmers and Farm labours: DAFF-Bangladesh:- started its development activities in 1995 for the disadvantaged and under privileged people of rural areas to facilitate, to find the way outs from the prevailing important situation. As a development organization, DAFF-Bangladesh aims to establish a just and equitable society, eliminating the oppression and injustice to the poor. Achieving the goal DAFF-Bangladesh-Bangladesh has been striving to equip he poor, helpless people to unit through institution building, awareness raising, and establishing the right of access to institutional resources. 'Poor people can repay the loan in time' - is now a proven truth, even though the access to the financial institution is often denied due to many rules and hazards. But DAFF-Bangladesh believes that economic empowerment is the vital factor of all development concern so that economic development apprehend the prime concentration in DAFF-Bangladesh's development strategy. DAFF-Bangladesh-Bangladesh is also committed to carry out a lot of programs for the development of quality of life and the betterment of living condition of the under privileged people. It aims at the welfare of the people and the care of the environment. It believes that taking care of our natural and human resources is salutary for sustainable development that would leave a better Bangladesh for the next generation to come. The main strategies to implement these goals are organizing the rural poor, help them to undertake self-employment based productive activities supported by a credit program and skill based training and increase capital formation through a savings scheme.
Legal Status
DAFF Bangladesh is a non-profit, politically impartial, and voluntary organization that was formally launched in 1995 and received registration under societies act XXI of 1860, No. S- 3707 (496)/2004 and April 4, 2004, Department of Social Welfare No Nabab-155, Dated 18-03-1999, NGO Bureau Registration No. 2226, dated 25/04/2007.
Objectives Of The Organization
1.To increase the overall production capacity of crops.
2.To protect self responsibility of grass root levels marginal farmers and farm labors in Bangladesh
3.To help the women, children & self dependant and increase awareness about socio economic conditions environment, healthcare and skill development
4.Provide technical support in the arsenic effected area
5.To co-operate the rural farmer for agricultural development development.
6.Economic rehabilitation & socio-economic development of the poor
7.To ensure legal and social rights of the destitute women
8.To help the women, children, adolescent, school dropouts underprivileged and disadvantaged group to engage in non formal educational activities
9.To involve the poor women groups to participate in different programs for self dependence
10Under taking savings and credit activities among the rural people
11.Provide relief and rehabilitation during the disaster period
12.Economic rehabilitation & socio-economic development of the poor
13.Human resource development for job seeker educated youth, NGO leaders, NGO activities entrepreneur and promoters
14.Skill development training for the staffs & new initiatives.
Mission and Vision
Bring positive change & empowerment of rural poor/disadvantages community for reducing poverty by working demand driven support and growing partners through human resource & institution building support by providing technical, logistic and micro credit support.Establish poor and vulnerable people specially the women, adolescent & children in community and their empowerment where they will be able to live in peace, justice, decision making & democratic value
Recent Flood
The overall flood and erosion situation in the country downstream region has aggravated with the situation in the central part remaining unchanged while the situation in the north-east region continued to improve till Wednesday. Around 9594733 marooned people along with their domestic animals in 271 upazilas of 38 districts are passing inhuman life. The affected people are passing their days under the open sky desperately in need for food, safe drinking water and medicine. While the situation marked an improvement in the upstream areas, the overall condition remained grave in several districts in the central part and downstream including Dhaka, Manikganj, Munshiganj, Chandpur, Madaripur, Shariatpur and Faridpur which are submerged by flood waters. Small rivers surrounding Dhaka and Narayanganj observed both rise and fall. All the five rivers surrounding Dhaka and Narayanganj are expected to fall in next 24, 48 and 72 hours but inundation of lowlying areas in the eastern part of Dhaka city is likely to remain static, an official of Flood Forecasting Warning Centre (FFWC) said. The sufferings of the affected people intensified further due to intermittent rain for several days in some places. The plight of the flood victims across the country is mounting as the scarcity of food, pure drinking water and medicines persists and diarrhoea has taken an epidemic form at different places. Although shelters have been opened, the relief materials supplied to victims in the districts as well as in the capital itself are inadequate. The water crisis in particular is acute both in the rural and urban areas. Seedbeds of different paddies and vegetables in the affected districts were washed away by the floodwaters. Many primary and high schools and colleges remain closed due to the deteriorating flood situation. Besides causing untold miseries to lakhs of people the current flood caused damage to many dwelling houses and standing crops over thousands acres of lands. Meanwhile, the devastating flood claimed 28 more lives taking the death toll to 192 on Wednesday, according to Relief Control Cell. The situation aggravated further in central zone including capital Dhaka and continued to play havoc with the lives, properties and standing crops. More new areas of the city went under flood water on Wednesday. With north-east region, central parts and several districts of downstream area of the country now under water, 192 people including women and children have lost their lives and 9594733 people are marooned due to the devastating floods wreaking havoc in 271 upazilas of 38 districts
Unhappy Side Effects for Older
A great unhappy side effect for older .they can not sufficient earn to store that use Many critical period .so they suffer larger problem then younger. Many older they Haven't any children the are in great problem .they don't get food, fresh water to drink. They do not life to live .they said, we want to die. Our DAFF BANGLADESH Try to help them
Non-Formal Education
Bangladesh is trying to alleviate the curse of literacy and the combined campaign of NGO and GO against illiteracy is seems to reaching its ultimate aim. DAFF Bangladesh also want to be an exalted participant of the expedition of literacy. So it takes education programs as reciprocal and vital part to achieve its mission along with other programs. To combat the curse of illiteracy and to cope with the steam of development DAFF Bangladesh feels to instead the education program for its members.