Target
Beneficiaries:
Direct Beneficiaries:
Deaf-blind and other disabled persons with special
emphasis on children &
women.
Distressed, destitute people and disadvantaged
peoples-especially women and children living in both rural and urban
areas.
Indirect Beneficiaries:
Family members of deaf-blind, other disabled
persons &
children.
Family members of distressed and destitute persons living in both rural
and urban areas.
All other persons living in the same
communities.
All employees of SEDAD.
Some of the aids are really expensive and cannot be
distributed in large numbers. During the reported year (2015-2016) some of
target group were taken also for medical checkup when they become sick and free
medicines were distributed to the sick person.
Press Conference at Shariatpur & participatory
group meeting on Climate Change Management: SEDAD organized a press conference
on Climate Change Management at Shariatpur on account of sensitizing local news
representatives on the victimization of different types of Persons with
Disabilities and encountering serious problems during /climate change
/disaster. Not only that at the time of disaster management the stakeholders
and volunteers generally forget about their support and service delivery to the
persons with disabilities because they don’t know disability issue and how to
handle or take care of disabled people at the time of disaster management. So
SEDAD expects cooperation from the reporters and journalists to widely
circulate the messages all over Bangladesh at least to make the social workers
aware of the circumstances during the disaster management. The following
photograph shows on such discussion.
Besides, SEDAD also conducted several participatory
group discussion meetings at the village level in its working area in the
district of Sariatpur, Bangladesh where disadvantaged and destitute women
participated and shared different affairs about the consequences and situation
of climate change.
Hygiene Promotion Program : SEDAD’s by
utilizing its potentials, field force, skills and experiences has proceeded for
promotion of hygiene and sanitation in the climate change/disaster
vulnerability area at Shariatpur district through different types of awareness
raising activities. Finally, it is contributing the long run vision to reducing
the issue and SEDAD already get positive feedback from the target beneficiaries
as well as local community and civil society in relation to improve the hygiene
and sanitation facilities which is quite encouraging to step forward with a
long run vision. As a low-lying country with 230 waterways, Bangladesh is one
of the most disaster-prone nations of the world. It is recognized worldwide as
one of the country’s most vulnerable due to its unique geographic location. As
a result people of Bangladesh have to affect by different types of climate change
hazard such as floods, cyclone, storms, droughts, and sea level rise etc. The
impacts of global warming and climate change too crucial for the population of
Bangladesh. This increases vulnerability of the people and Persons with
Disabilities (PWDs) are particularly the most vulnerable among the vulnerable
groups. Due to lack of education, knowledge and basic awareness, people often
have a poor understanding of the relationship between health, water, sanitation
and hygiene. So to be healthy and safety we have to understand about those
matters. Hygiene and sanitation promotion is about setting an environment where
people (women, children and men) can sustain their healthy behavior for
reducing/preventing the risk of communicable diseases because it makes a barrier
to prevent transmission of disease. Hand hygiene is a term used to cover both
hand-washing by using soap and wash with water. Through popper hand washing, we
can prevent water and sanitation related diseases such as diarrhea, cholera,
dysentery and typhoid. However, these practices include the safe disposal of
children’s feces, safe drinking water storage, hand washing at critical times
and proper disposal of solid and liquid waste. Women have to be aware in
three levels of hygiene promotion. Personal hygiene (including menstrual
hygiene) 2. Family hygiene (including food hygiene and solid waste management)
3.Community hygiene (including house and neighborhood public places &
environment)
As PEACE women groups have to take care of their
goats so it should mandatory to practice hygienic behavior with goats otherwise
they may also be suffered from animal related diseases. Women should aware to
safe disposal of goat’s excreta and bathing regularly to make them clean and
healthy. If there is any signs and symptoms look abnormal of goats it should be
called Doctor for their safety. SEDAD’s by its own efforts step forward to
promote hygiene and sanitation related issue among the PEACE women and
other women groups and got positive feedback which encouraging to work
out the problem with long run vision. Additionally, it is essential to
continuous community hygiene education along with physical access to water
supply and sanitation to influence for changing in hygiene behavior and
decreases the prevalence of water born diseases. Besides, community
participation in the decision making process is most important determinant for
sustainable hygiene promotion.
Climate Club and Deaf Blind survery: 1. SEDAD
organize 2 climate Club consist of 320 Students to supports disable children in
the time of disaster.
2. Organized 10 advocacy meting with NGO officials
in 10 district, as a result more vulnerable children) in the 40 union of 10
disaster prone districts of Bangladesh.
3.Organized climate adaptation and mitigation
committee in the district, upazilla, union and village level, including the
Govt officials, local community leader, journalist and support providers of
disable people
Organizations’ Workshops and Seminars: Several
Workshops and Seminars for advocacy and lobbing were organized by SEDAD in
different working areas for creation of Social awareness for establishment of
equal rights of the disabled persons in the societies.
A community based campaign for Children with
Deaf-blind, blind & disable people were organized at Goshairhat Upazia at
Shariatpur District and Tongi Thana at Gazipur district. SEDAD organized a
colorful rally in May 2015. The Campaign and the rally were also participated
by the local elites including Officials of the Social Welfare Departments. The
major objective of organizing the campaign and the rally was to create
awareness among the rural community people for establishment of social rights
and human dignity for the Deaf-blind, disable people. About 550-760 blind,
Deaf-blind and people with multiple disabilities attended the campaign and the
rally in Goshairhat Upazia and Tongi Thana. Two rallies had completed
successfully.
The campaign and the rally was followed by a
cultural show participated by the disabled children. At the end of the rally a
cultural program participated by the disabled children was also arranged.
Tree plantation: SEDAD did not have any
independent program of its own in tree plantation. However, all its target
beneficiaries and officials of SEDAD participated in Government tree plantation
month and made roadside plantation along with Government and other NGO
officials and beneficiaries. During the last year SEDAD also distributed 60100
seedlings and cuttings of fruit trees to the disabled persons including women
and children and their members.
Water sanitation week and Polio vaccination: Similarly SEDAD
beneficiaries also participated in the water sanitation week, polio vaccination
campaign program and other activities organized by Govt. of Bangladesh and
other UN Bodies like UNICEF and WHO
etc.
Participation in mass rallies: The SEDAD
beneficiaries also participated in different mass rallies organized by the
Government of Bangladesh and UN bodies. This includes World Blind Day, World
Disabled Day, Establishment of Children’s rights etc.
Case Study : Shilpi Rani an unmarried female
lives in the village of Methosonpotthi, Upazilla Gushaierhut and districts
Shariatpur. Her father name is Anil and mother name is Pospo Rani. Currently
she is 20 years old and she has passed her Higher Secondary School Certificate
exam last year. She has 3 sisters and 1 little brother. There are about 6
people lives in her family, among them 2 are male and 4 are female. Her
father is a Misthri and mother is a housewife. Overall they are in poor and
under extreme poverty level family as a result they were an emotional hardship
as bad as economically too. Because her father was only the income source
of their family which is very little amount and through this income it was
tough to maintain their livelihood and education support for her father every
day. In this condition the two sisters younger of her stopped to go school due
to financial crisis. There was no any source to bear the cost of their
livelihoods for her. As a result, her mother became a beggar to support her
family as there was no any alternative way, but it was really painful because
people disrespected and neglected her too much. However, there was no job to do
for her because the social barriers for women groups are not allowed to work in
outside.
Shilpi Rani said, after starting the PEACE project
of SEDAD which is run by cooperation of CDP, we got the lots of training on
fishing, making mat by Hogla leaf, awareness raising skills about bad effects
of climate change and adaptation etc. Besides, SEDAD provided Hogla leaf
by their own contribution and support and made us the proper use of it and
finally our sorrowful life has become prosper with happiness, because every day
we (me, and my mother) are earning about 100 tk through making mat by Hogla
leaf. SEDAD’s honest and sincere efforts help us to be self-sufficient,
literate and take the leadership in the society. As a result, my two sisters
are going to school happily and now we have no any financial crisis.
SEDAD is a non government organization working for
the disabled and destitute people of Bangladesh. SEDAD is a
“National Member” of “World Federation of the Deaf-Blind (WFDB) and is
registered with the NGO Bureau Affairs of Bangladesh bearing registration no.
2414
SEDAD is a non government organization working for
the disabled and destitute people of Bangladesh. SEDAD is a
“National Member” of “World Federation of the Deaf-Blind (WFDB) and is
registered with the NGO Bureau Affairs of Bangladesh bearing registration no.
2414
Socio Economic Development Association for Disabled (SEDAD) has started its journey to the development path from 1st January 1992 and crossed 22 years of its development. Though there were lots of limitations and problems during the last twenty years, the activities have not been stopped but continued its development efforts with own speed, where there were success and failures also. In the mean time, new thoughts and ideas have been introduced in our development interventions and created new innovative sustainable ideas. The demand and expectations of the people however have changed with the march of creative world leaving previous thoughts and expectations, which resulted innovation and addition of new development techniques.
We have been working hard entirely to turn the
people into useful human resources and to spread their inner heart fully
through increasing their fullest participation in development process.
Empowerment of the poor and participation of the women side by side of their
male partners are the precondition of our development process.
Non–Formal Education
provided to the Child beneficiaries: Except one School at Shibchar in
Madaripur District, the other Schools were operated for both normal and
disabled children from poor and distressed families as a part of inclusive
education. One other added advantage and also obtained from this type of mixing
well integration of the two distinct communities created a social harmony in
the areas. In one NFE School, about 100 children and adults are admitted and
one teacher is hired. The curricula include textbooks, from the Non-Formal
Primary Education Department of the Govt. of Bangladesh. One session usually
last from 6 to 12 months depending on the age group of children and adults and
on the basis of their acceptance capabilities. Adequate emphasis was given in
2015-2016 for the improvement of quality education through regular training of
teachers and close monitoring and supervision of School operation. After
completion of education in the SEDAD, they got more priorities when they wanted
to get admission into the normal Government Primary School
IGA related skill-
training Activities: One of the main goals of SEDAD is to make Deaf-blind,
Disabled and other distressed, destitute people as self-reliant and self
sustained through provision of IGA related skill training on different IGA
activities. These topics included poultry, duck and goat rearing, preparation
of handicrafts, sewing by using different local products like leaf, straw, jute
etc. and mats, fishing traps, flower bases etc. with bamboos. Training is also
provided for vegetables, fruits and development of nurseries. Those persons who
do not want to undertake skill training or who are not capable enough to
undertake such training SEDAD organized some entrepreneurship development
training like opening of small grocery shop, fuel selling shop, vegetable shop
and selling of shopping bags etc. In these training sessions out of 3890
persons trained in the year 2015-2016, 1291 were disabled persons (I.e.
33.19%).
