After the devastating cyclone in 1991, Advocate Sujit Kumar Chowdhury, Professor Someswar Chakravorty, Advocate Shibu Lal Debdas, Dr. M.A. Hossain and some teachers, lawyers, and social workers came together and started relief and rehabilitation works for the cyclone affected shelter-less people of Cox's Bazar district with their own contribution and collected fund from the community. At that time, they distributed dry food and ORS to affected people for one month and constructed 500 low-cost houses for shelter-less families. After that they established a school for providing primary education to vulnerable children. And finally, they started development activities formally through Mukti Cox's Bazar with the view to serving the poor community, mainly underprivileged women, to get rid of illiteracy, unawareness, poverty and prejudice from 1st January 1996.
God resides in human hearts. To serve suppressed, oppressed, distressed People is to worship God. This is the philosophy Mukti Cox's Bazar holds as a service rendering and social welfare organization. To materialize this dream its effort has been going on since 1996. With the help of all concerned, its name and fame has surpassed the national border and has reached international humanitarian and development sphere. The skilled & capable professionals adhere to the core belief that Mukti is the organization of those for whom we work for, poor, helpless, oppressed, and unprivileged women. Steps were and are being taken to save them from the clutches of poverty and social apparatus of tyranny. But if we are let to speak the truth, we are not ready to call these measures adequate or very effective to bring overnight changes in a society where problems are accumulated for ages. Mere monetary assistance should not be adopted as a system or procedure of sustainable upliftment. Money may be given to promote business, to create jobs and Income Generating Activities (IGA). But to keep these necessary creation and prevailing machineries of income sustainable and functioning, ethical, logistic and technical supports are being given which we think will bring socio-economic changes in the target society. Alongside, we link with the administration and peacekeeping agencies to guarantee and preserve their basic rights. Through different projects designed for the purpose we have taken substantial measures to make them aware of their short comings, impediments and problems they are facing, the prejudices and superstitions they are becoming target of, and to find out way to get rid of all these. We, the founders of this organization have ambition to make our target society a poverty-free welfare society where men, women and children can live in peace and harmony, with minimum dignity and honor, with liberty and freedom.Standing and wondering in front of you but you are looking for God everywhere. He who loves and serves men is virtually worshiping the God. –
Swami Vivekananda
Mukti Cox's Bazar is a renowned Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Bangladesh. It's started its journey in Cox's Bazar district in January 1996 as a non-government organization with the volunteer support from some professionals, philanthropist and social change makers.