Uplifting the Quality of the Lives of Elderly People

Uplifting the Quality of the Lives of Elderly People

Funded by

Pali Korma Sohayak Foundation-PKSF and Muk Cox’s Bazar

Goal

To Increase human development & ensure social dignity in community through capacity building.

Objective

  • Elderly people move to community in by establishing social center through supporting assistive materials & age allowance.
  • Elderly people will increase their income by receiving credit & IGAs based training.

Population coverag

869 elderly people, person with disability and others

Working Location

Sufaldondi union of Moheshkhali upazila in Cox’s Bazar district

Major activities

  • Establish Probin Sonali Udyog (T-stall)
  • The best veteran award to elderly people
  • Paying for the funeral cost for death case
  • Organize annual sports and cultural events
  • Provided old Age allowance to elderly people
  • The best child award to children/grand father
  • Conduct ward and union wise elderly people meeting
  • Organize satellite medical camps for treatment of parents
  • Distributed wheel chair to persons with disability (PWDs)

Partnership Reinforcement integrated skills enhancement (PRISE) SDC-BRAC Social Cohesion Fund for Cox's Bazar district (T-2)

Partnership Reinforcement integrated skills enhancement

Funded by

SDC & BRAC

Objective

  • To develop employable skills and job linkage for marginalized and disadvantaged adolescents (age 14 to 20) male and female to create a beer opportunity for their livelihood and make them empowered.
  • Poor and disadvantaged adolescents (age 14 to 20) of the host community have gainful employment through –

    (I) Skills training in different trades through Apprenticeship model based on market demand;

    (ii) After successful completion of training link the learners with decent employment or income generating activities (IGA).

Project Location

Moheshkhali, Chokoria, Cox’s Bazar Sadar and Teknaf Upazila of Cox’s Bazar district

Targeted people/beneficiaries

14 years to 20 years age adolescents and youths who are School & College dropped-out adolescent boys & girls, disable youths, transgender and GBV affected women/adolescent girls, widow and single mothers.

Major activities

  • Financial support to MCPs, PLs, TTs and Learners
  • Distribute Devices among PWD people (Selected disabled learners)
  • Job placement of learners after completion of TVET training and follow up.
  • Provide soft-skills training to the selected learners (14-18 years aged adolescents, GBV survivors)
  • Provide training to the selected Master Craft Person (MCP), Peer Leader (PL), and Technical Trainers (TT)
  • Provide Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to the selected learners (14-20 years aged adolescents, GBV survivors)

Empowering Rohingya Refugee and Host Community Women through Learning, Leadership and Livelihoods

Empowering Rohingya Refugee and Host Community

Funded by

OXFAM and UN Women

Prime Objective

To improve women and girls’ access to resources and opportunities by increasing individual and collective capacity through the practice of a transformative leadership within a safe and enabling environment.

Specific Objective

  • Empowerment of women through leadership development.
  • Improve access of women and girls in resources & services.
  • Increase capacity of women and girls providing necessary training.
  • Increase knowledge of women and men on gender issues, GBV, human rights.
  • Increase livelihood and life-skills of women and girls through creating job opportunities.

Geographical Coverage

Whykong Union of Teknaf, Holdyapalong Union of Ukhiya, Zilongja Union & partly Pourashava of Cox’s Bazar Sadar under Cox’s Bazar District.

Major activities

  • Paramedic/First Aid support.
  • Training to Host and Rohingya refugee women
  • Psychosocial Support to women and adolescent
  • Construction of Multipurpose Women’s Center (MPWC)
  • Advocacy at different level to promote women leadership
  • Staff & Volunteer Trainings of Trainers to Build capacity
  • Support Host community women and female youth groups to run women-led shops
  • Identify and develop livelihoods related trainings targeting host community women and girls
  • Sensitize community members about women’s leadership and participation in community decision-making processes
  • Support for women leaders through a customized program with technical advisory, capacity, linkages and network
  • Provide tools, grants or seed funds for Host community women to start income generations activities and Cash for Work
  • Training on livelihood skills to host community women and adolescent girls and to Rohingya women for CV-19 prevention
  • Support women groups to conduct sanitization sessions on gender, care work, protection, GBV, MHM, RH, GBV, referrals and livelihood
  • Support men groups to organize sanitization sessions on gender, care work, protection, GBV, MHM, RH, GBV, referrals and livelihood-
  • Formation of youth groups and forums for positive masculinizes GBV, early marriage, women’s leadership and participation in community decision-making processes

Activities and services from Multi-Purpose Women Centre (MPWC)

  • Referral Service
  • Livelihoods training
  • Leadership training
  • COVID awareness session
  • Counselling/ Psychosocial Support
  • Paramedic/ primary health care services
  • Community awareness: positive masculinizes, GBV, early marriage,
  • women’s leadership and participation in community decision-making processes
  • Learning session: gender, care work, protection, GBV, MHM, SRHR, GBV, etc.
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