Friendship’s Rural Social Education has been incorporated in a larger project titled Accessing to a Better Life which will be carried out in collaboration with the Manusher Jonno Foundation. The aim of the project is to provide the char dwellers with rights-based awareness and improving their capacities so that they can recognize, demand and organize internal and external resources. The target beneficiaries will be provided with training on poverty alleviation and civil education in order to meet the aim of the project.
Community-based groups modeled after Friendship’s Char Development Committee, will form long-term strategies at the grassroots level. The CDC will be developed through basic training and regular community meetings. As a result they will be aware of their human and civil rights, the concept of good governance, and ways to organize to demand for their rights.
The project implementation time will be two years. By the end of the project about 15,000 people of 15 chars will be benefited directly and indirectly in the region. A total of 18 staff, including 13 full-time project staff will serve the people of 15 chars of 4 Unions in 4 upazillas of Gaibandha and Kurigram districts.