The Annual Report

The Annual Report of FY 2015- 2016 Shamtinibas Agrani Kalyan Samiti (SAKS) South Kalyanpu, Rangamati Sadar, Rangamati-4500, Rangamati Hill Tracts Content 1. Non-formal education program: 2. HIV/AIDS education program: 3. Water & Sanitation Program hygiene Promotion 4. Horticulture Training Project 5. Health education project Message from the President: The Shamtinibas Agrani Kalyan Samiti (SAKS) undertaken community-based educational programs collaborating with the community peoples of the and later BRAC came forward to support our valuable program supporting financial in our educational programs since 20013. "Education is the spine of a nation" proverb is a true valuable word, no one nation can be developed without education. As our country is the poorest amongst the developing countries of the world, it is because; the literacy rate is so low in south-east Asian countries. So, to reduce poverty, first we need education, the education can be rendered the population into the valuable human resources, skilled educated men and women can lead the country to the top developed nation. For above reason, SAUS trying to reduce illiteracy from the society by educating the marginalized extreme poor children, dropped out children and disadvantaged children by providing non-formal and formal primary educational facilities, re-schooling and supporting their families in our development programs to increase their income so that their children can continue their education and rebuild their lives. The marginalized community peoples do not access to required information on the scopes of obtaining free health, sanitation, education and other development , further, the extreme poor people do not have the spare of time to go to the Upazila and district head quarter to have such health related information for their ill family members for better treatment and when their patients become serious at that time they have to take them to the district hospitals and need much time and money to reach to the district hospitals/clinics, to manage such amount of money can be collected by selling their only beasts. On the other hand, if the only incoming family members are engaged with the patient's treatment, the other family members have face hunger without sufficient food. The mentioned above situations/problems are always evolved the rural poor families who need complete free health care service at their door steps, so I would like to encourage the health service-providing institutions to go and provide health facilities to the extreme poor peoples of backward communicated areas of CHT. In conclusion, I would like to thank to BRAC, DANIDA and CHT WON for their financial and in-kind supports to our development projects and I also thank to our patrons, individual donors and the members of SAUS who contributed to the development project under taken by this SAUS organization and hope to receive the same contribution from you in the future. 1. Non-formal primary education (NFPE) program SAKS implemented a non-formal primary education (NFPE) project in 2015 which was a continuous program, providing primary educational facilities to the extreme poor indigenous children, class 1 to 4, age 8-12 years in the schools established by support of BRAC and SAKS. This educational project / activities are conducted in Ghilachari, Burighat and Kutukchari union with the hired teachers, the objective of this education project is to provide primary education and to make fit to re-schooling the dropped out children age. The school management committee (SMG) monitors the entire school activities including raising awareness on the local families to send their children to the schools instead of engaging them in household works. Executive Council (EC) of SAUS also together with Project Implementation Committee (PIC) monitors and evaluates the ongoing school activities. SAKS implemented a non-formal primary education project which was a continuous project started since 2007, the main objective of this project is to reduce illiteracy rate and to enhance the quality of education and creating a learning environment for the out-of-school children; especially disadvantaged girls, dropped out and working children of Chittagong Hill Tracts. Under this educational program, the target children learn how to sing national anthem, physical exercise, indoor and out door games, song and dance, and puzzle etc. Rate of students’ attendance is satisfactory; teachers are regular and conduct classes maintaining child education friendly environment. Parents are happy to send their children at school regularly and observing progress of their children’s’ education. But they comment, curriculum of school should be as per CHT context (language, culture). Under this project a total of 150 children received educational facilities and their parents/guardians were motivated. Project Objectives: • to enhance capacity of the community for effective management of non-formal primary education, • to provide primary education to 137 targeted disadvantaged working indigenous children, and • to develop a mutually beneficial collaborative network of formal and non-formal primary education providers. Project Duration: continued Project Beneficiaries: 137 indigenous students, age 6-11 years old including drop- out children. Project Location: The project with five schools covers five villages Upazila in Rangamati Hill District. Funding Source(s): BRAC Project Features: Basic education-reading, writing and arithmetic and other extra curricular activities- education how to sing national anthem, physical exercise, indoor and out door games, song and dance, and puzzle etc. Achievements: • Enrollment of indigenous children in primary school increased • the rate of child labour decreased • Literacy is at incremental rate • Parents being aware about the importance of education send their children to schools • Parents get the opportunity to discuss their community problems and solidarity among the community people developed • Children are in good hygienic condition 2. HIV/AIDS Program: SAKS implemented a HIV/AIDS education project - by raining public awareness on HIV/AIDS virus transmittance from one person to another through blood and sexual cohabitation, education were provided to the community peoples to prevent spreading of transmissible virus of HIV/AIDS. SAKS conducted the program collaborating with Maitre-Bangladesh holding community-based meetings/workshops at village level targeting the peoples of the project areas- especially for the youth and adolescent, the community-based youth groups was formed with the educated youth and adolescent to conduct and spread the information of the HIV/AIDS preventive knowledge learned from the program and to distribute leaflets to adjacent villages. 3. Water, Sanitation and hygiene Promotion Program: SAKS continued the community-based hygiene promotion, water and sanitation education programs along with other development programs- raised awareness on access to safe water, purification process of streams and pond ( purifying by boiling and in other systems) to make free the dinking water from diseases carrying viruses and protect themselves from water born diseases. The sanitation education provided to the community people of project sites to use hygienic latrines, practice sandal use entrance into the latrines and washing hands with soaps after evacuation, practice behavior change by using sanitary latrine, not to practice open space evacuation, keeping clean around the houses and schools. The said program conducted by organizing workshops and raising awareness on these issues Objective: To prevent spreading of HIV/AIDS through proving relevant information and education. To raise awareness on HIV/AIDS virus transmittance and the means of preventive measures Project Duration: 12 months ending in December, 2016 Project Beneficiaries: 540 target youth and adolescent and men and women of the 4 villages Project Location: Magban Union under Rangamati Sadar Upazila. Funding Source(s): SAKS own funds Project results: All the target families aware of HIV/AIDS virus transmittance and its definition The local peoples well-educated the prevention measures of HIV/AIDS virus 4. Horticulture Training: SAKS conducted horticulture training to 20 poor farmers providing sapling production, planting, caring and watering the sapling/plants including distribution plants. The mentioned above training provided to 25 poor ndigenous farmers in 2 batches .One batch 13 and another batch 12 trainees, 15 days in a batch. The 21 trainees received practical skills in theoretical and practical methods; the purpose of this training is to make the poor farmers into the good skilled gardeners, increase their agro-based income by applying the modern scientific agricultural technology hi-bread fruit production, grafting and sapling production systems. Project Objectives: To develop farming skills of the target poor farmers; To increase production of cash-crops, paddy and other vegetable To increase Project Duration: 12 months ending in December, 2016 Project Beneficiaries: 25 poor indigenous family members Project Location: Magban Union under Rangamati Sadar Upazila. Funding Source(s): SAKS own funds Project Features: Providing practical sapling production, seedling, plants caring, grafting, application of fertilizers, irrigation etc. Project results: • All the target family members (trainees) developed their skills of modern cash- crop production • Their agro- production and income increased significantly. • The poverty conditions of the target farmers changed Project Title: water sanitation and hygiene promotion (WATSAN) Program Shamtinibas Agrani Kalyan Samiti conducted a water sanitation and hygiene promotion (WATSAN) project; the main aim of the program is to improve hygienic awareness and proactive roles among the community people especially the poorest people. The program implemented in Magban union in Rangamati Sadar Upazila. Under this water and sanitation education programs- raised awareness on access to safe water, purification process of streams and pond ( purifying by boiling and in other systems) to make free the dinking water from diseases carrying viruses and protect themselves from water born diseases. The sanitation education provided to the community people of project sites to use hygienic latrines, practice sandal use entering into the latrines and washing hands with soaps after evacuation, practice behavior change by using sanitary latrine, not to practice open space evacuation, keeping clean around the houses and schools. The said program conducted by organizing workshops and raising awareness on these issues therefore, organization undertook awareness program. In regular parents’ group meetings and in village development groups the community conduct group discussion, informal training, which includes other development issues. Now majority people are habituated and practicing personal hygiene and drink safe water. But in most of our other working areas there is severe hardship of water supply. Project Objectives: • To create a healthy behavioral changes and to increase of using safe sanitary latrines for rural indigenous families • To access safe drinking water • To prevent water-born diseases Project Duration: 12 months ending in December, 2016 Project Beneficiaries: 740 poor families covering 5 villages Project Location: Magban Union under Rangamati Sadar Upazila. Funding Source(s): GOB-DANIDA through partnership with Zila Parisad, Rangamati Project Features: Awareness on the importance of hygiene, sanitation and safe water held in regular parents’ group meetings, informal training which includes other development issues. Installation of ring well, tube well, gravity flow system and deep tube wells. The project has also repaired the disordered tube wells/ring wells. Achievements: • All the target families access to safe water • About 80% of target families' hygiene behavior changed. • Water-born diseases decreased. • The treatment cost have been reduced . Development Initiative to promote Transforming Youth and Adolescents (DIPTYA) project: Shamtinibas Agrani Kalyan Samiti has been implementing a youth and adolescent skill development project partnership with Manusher Jonno Foundation, providing job-creating skills development (mushroom and swing skill) training including social mobilization, motivation and encouraging undertaking income-generating schemes collectively). A total of 100 disadvantaged youth and adolescent have been received training facilities in Magban Union under the Rangamati Sadar Upazila since June, 2011 which will continue till 2012 partnership with Manusher Jonno Foundation. The total target people of this project are the 100 disadvantaged youth and adolescent and we already provided services to 100 target group members in 2011. Objective: To build skills development of 100 indigenous youth and adolescent To increase income of the disadvantaged youth and adolescent through transforming them into human resources Outputs: • 100 indigenous youth and adolescent target group members received mushroom production and swing training skill. The 100 target group member became self-employed and was able to earn livelihood income through application of the skills/lesions-learned from the project. • Project Duration: June 2015 –March 11,2016 Funding Sources: Manusher Jonno Foundation Project Features: Providing mushroom and swing training including awareness raising, motivation, social and etc. Achievements: • A total of 100 indigenous youth and adolescent received income-generating skill development training (mushroom production and swing trainings) Conclusion: Shamtinibas Agrani Kalyan Samiti (SAKS) achieved its goal and objectives by providing development services to the needy community peoples in Rangamati Hill Tracts as it committed in its principles. Undoubtedly, the underprivileged community peoples benefited by receiving development services at their door steps from SAKS development programs in last year as its members, staff, volunteers and local community peoples constantly contributed as the catalyst and worked hard to fulfill the project objectives set to achieve. With integrated efforts SAKS successfully implemented all the development projects and derived the expected impacts. To this end, we appreciate the local community peoples' contributions that played important roles in achieving our targeted objectives in our development sectors. We invite comments and suggestion on our development projects implementation at saks.bd@gmail.com