In the northern region of Bangladesh there exist some River Basin areas. A lot of people have been living in these islands or char areas. The people has been living in char have been encountering different types of problem and constraint. The areas generally affect by river erosion and frequent disaster every year and lose assets, households, income generating options and as a result most of the poor and disadvantaged people of the area are extremely vulnerable and disadvantaged. deprivation.
More than 80% people of the char are poor and ultra poor and their essential requirement is to mitigate the basic needs i.e. food, shelter, household repairing, education and health facilities. So, very rarely some of the non government organizations are implementing a comprehensive package in order to develop the Community Capacity to improve the Livelihood so that they can manage disaster risk and climate change affect.
The key activities of that might be helpful to improve the life style of the poor people are: Conducting group meeting with the community people, raising awareness on disaster risk reduction and climate change affect, preparing contingency plan through involving the community, demonstrating of environment friendly cultivation by showing high value crops, preparing report for sharing, meeting with Village development committee, quick growing fruit trees sapling distributing, distribution of sapling of fruit trees, providing orientation on compost fertilizer preparation for the community people, irrigation support to individual women through treadle pump, providing Institutional Support to producer group, installation of raised hygienic latrines, installation new raised Tube well including platform, commercial fodder cultivation by producer group, conducting day long orientation on women issue for up representatives, proving basic literacy and hygiene education for adolescents girls, conduct day long orientation for school teachers and student at union level and arrange meeting with private sector,
Any of the designed projects need to plan the above activities to reduce the suffering of the char dwellers.
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