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Rangpur Education Development Foundation (REDF) is a non-government, non-profit humanitarian Foundation established on late January in 2006 which started development activities on behalf of the poor and ultra poor people through different education development programs. It is the outcome of joint efforts led by few local self-dedicated young social actors from various academic disciplines.
The Foundation was at first limited in several activities of a local club at Chowdhurani under Pirgacha Upazila of Rangpur district, one of the most remote and disaster prone northwestern district in Bangladesh. Total inhabitants of this district are about 3.45 millions. Mighty rivers Teesta, and Jamuna with its lots of tributaries and sub-tributaries have been flowing over the district and make the district most vulnerable to natural calamities especially Flood and river erosion. Flood is very common during the monsoon. There is high prevalence of drought almost in every dry season of the year on the other hand during winter season cold wave creates also havocs in the life and livelihood. It is a matter of great misery that river erosion makes numbers of people landless, homeless as well as asset-less and rendered people to migrate in another place for living. Among those affected people who are generally poor and ultra poor. The number of poverty stricken people is increasing day by day where the country situation is reverse. Lack of employment opportunity encompasses the severity of their sorrow and sufferings. There prevails a world of lacking and. One and only option for a large number of people is to sale their physical labor mainly in agricultural sectors and in household affairs. Work opportunity in agricultural sector creates only in particular period in a single year but they have to stay jobless during the rest time of this year and have to face innumerable sufferings to live on.  In this period, even they have to starve together with all their family members and sometimes they take single meal in a day.  Over all they are living in strange situation where vulnerability aggresses al the time. On the other hand, finding no other alternatives, a large number of labour classes have to migrate in other potential areas in urban and city towns in search of jobs. And they stay at their job place discarding his family in a dark situation with food insecurity. So women and children of those wage-earning members become more helpless without their guardians.The situation of women, adolescent girls and children are very vulnerable in those poor communities. Children are victimized particularly than female and male. They could not get to the opportunity to grow up accordingly. They are deprived and neglected but they have the rights to grow up like others in middle class communities. Rights are being abused in those communities. In addition, general society is fully dominated by the male counterparts and they are controller of their and tradition and culture as well. Women and children are deprived from their rights dually at their society and family level. Women’s dependence of men in many aspects of living and livelihood brings scoop of male domination on women and this subdues the women’s voice. Striking social problems in and around Rangpur are dowry, polygamy separation with husband, abandoned wife, early marriage during childhood, divorce, physical and mental torture on the wives render the life of women and children miserable. A group of youth had been involved in various socio-cultural and peoples’ welfare program around 1996 and gradually their effort turned into developmental program. REDF came to development field with small financing for the poor and small entrepreneurs to save them room the clutches of small entrappers.REDF has been implementing different development interventions with special emphasize to create the opportunity to educate and literate distressed and neglected Women and Children. Foundation is committed to do well for the vulnerable and distressed communities through socio-economic development initiatives.

Mailing Address                       :  Chowdhurani, Pirgacha, Rangpur

Contact Person                        : S M Ferdous Alom

                                                  Executive Director (ED)

Phone                                       : 01714 802 954

E-mail                                       : redf.ferdous@gmail.com

Legal Status                                                                                             

								Registration Authority		Registration No	Date
								Register of Joint Stock Company Companies of Bangladesh Government		S-5898(142)/06	06-08-2006

Vision

Establishment of a Society socially accepted where people are living with tranquility, peace and justice

Mission

Literal empowerment for socio-economic development of vulnerable and distressed communities with special emphasizes on women, children and minority groups. Save and curing disaster affected people in Rangpur as well as to help the poor to establish poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and disease free society.

Goal

Together bring out improved socio-economic status of rural and semi urban vulnerable and disadvantaged poor communities

Objectives

1      Assist to form  and unite women, adolescent, disability & minority  group
2      Women empowerment and capacity building
3      Increase literacy rate through effective education
4      Establish non-formal education centers
5      Influence policy makers and different service providers to increase their responsiveness
6      Assist to establish rights of poor men, women, children, tribal and others minority communities.
7      Provide legal aid services to the poor communities
8      Massive awareness to stop children and women trafficking and domestic violence
9      Rescue and evacuation during disasters
10    To improve the economic status of the poor and ultra poor through ensuring their involvement in IGAs creating employment opportunities.
11    Empower the poor socially and economically
12    Promote human rights and social justice for poor men, women, children and person with disabilities.
13    Build network and partnership with like minded grass root level         NGOs to work together for achieving common.
14    Support the initiatives of the government as a development partner.
15    Ensure the participation of the disadvantaged, vulnerable people including women and children in the development activities.
16    Increase educational level of poor through adult & child literacy program.
17    Play advocacy role for consciousness raising on social development.
18    Increase the health status of poor through diversified health related program initiatives such as MPH, FP, Environmental sanitation as well as water and sanitation and hygienic practice.
19    Increase the agricultural production through using modern technology.
20    Protect the environmental degradation.
21    Motivate the destitute mothers & adolescents girls through group formation.
22    Provide health care services for the destitute of the community.
23    To publish different write-up as RGA to support the development program.
24    To design and implement different strategic development programs for improving socio-economic status of the destitute community.
25    To create self employment opportunities through small scale enterprise establishment and IGAs. 
26    To help establish the social rights of the disadvantaged female community.
27    To create social movement against dowry system in the society.
28    To form the community folk-singer groups to keep up traditional culture in the society for back to back cultural awareness.
29    To undertake eco-culture program for healthy environment.

Target People:

1.     Widows, divorced, abandoned women
2.     Women of the disadvantaged family
3.     Women of land-less, asset-less and marginal farmers
4.     Different minority group includes fisherman, potters, horizon, santal etc
5.     Children of the target families
6.     People who are disabled and handicapped

Ongoing Programs                                                                                               
1      Education for Human Development Program (EHDP)
2      Capacity Balding Program (CBP)
3      Income and employment Generation Program (IEGP)
4      Health and Environment program (HEP) 
5      Disasters Management Program (DMP)

Program Approach
Women Empowerment, institution building and capacity development through participatory way are major focus of REDF addressing life and livelihood. REDF works to ensure people’s participation and strength the capability of them in responding natural disaster and in development process and to improve the people’s livelihood through empowerment of poor and distressed group members specially women group members as well as to encourage people in Agriculture production and involve more and more people   as a part of alternative means of employment.
Strategy
1.     Increase the awareness level through people’s institution building
2.     Establish new school for the deprived and neglected children
3.     Increase of literacy rate among the poor communities non-formal education 
4.     Promote primary health-care, safe water and sanitation facilities. 
5.     Enhance knowledge and skill through need-based training, workshop and orientation
6.     Involve group members in income generating and employment creation activities.
7.     Develop sustainable disaster preparedness and management capabilities to cope with disaster

Working area                                                                                                        

District	Upazila	No. of Unions
Rangpur	Pirgacha	10
	Kawnia	05
	Rangpur Sadar	03
Total	03	18

Staffing                                                                                                               

Type of staff	Total Numbers	Male	Female
Executive Director	1	1	0
Director	0	0	0
Managerial	04	03	01
Field level staff	26	14	12
Volunteers	40	25	35
Total	71	43	48

Major achievements                                                                                         

1      Institutional development as 1 CBOs are legally registered
2      Creation of education opportunities for the neglected children, adolescents
3      Education centers establishment as 22 NFPE, 02 adolescent schools and 02 post-literacy centers
4      Strengthening relationship with local government (UP)
5      Strengthen 09  Salish committee, 3 apex committee for fair justice
6      06 women received legal aid supports
7      Initiated for establishing good governance at Foundation level
8      Increasing awareness about various development issues
9      Numbers of community level training, workshops, group session, rally, day observance, demonstration and visual publication

Budget of the Financial Year 2011-2012                                            

Taka: 50,25,000.00

REDF Offices                                                                                                    

Central office           : 01
Field, Office             : 01
Project office           : 01
Total                       : 03

Values and Norms                                                                                            

1      Community based Program Design and implementation.
2      Internal monitoring and audit system.
3      Gender Sensitive Foundation
4      Committed staffs members
5      Networking and affiliation
6      Transparency and accountability of the Foundation
7      Skill staffs for training module preparation.
8      Skilled trainer team
9      Jointly program implementation with local administration
10    Communication system (telephone, e-mail, Computer)
11    Training center

Facilities of training Center                                                                              

Training room

1      1 Training hall rooms

2      02 training rooms (field based)

3      30 Seats capacity in each training hall room

 Besides of these, Foundation has the following logistics facilities includes materials, equipment and training apparatus for effective training

Name of Items	Nos. / Qty
Motor-cycle	02
Computer set with printer	02
Digital camera	01
Generator & IPS	01
Necessary standard office furniture and equipments	As Required (Chair, table, steel Almirah, File cabinet, Utensils).

Major ongoing Activities                                                                                   

1      Education for Human Development Project
2      Water and sanitation fort ecological environment program
3      Social Mobilization and Advocacy on behalf of less advanced poor people 
4      Savings and Income Generation Activity through group formation and skill development training
5      Education includes pre-primary, non-formal education for deprived child and functional education for elders
6      Capacity Building Training and Need Based Orientation and Training
7      Life and Livelihood development through undertaking feasible and appropriate initiatives
8      Comprehensive program to develop the situation of Health, Nutrition and Sanitation
9      Ecological Agriculture and Environment development programs
10    Early warning system, preparedness and disaster management and rehabilitation programs for the affected people.
11    Voice raising especially on right based approach & gender development

Inclination of the Foundation                                                                           

Foundation is committed for the development of the vulnerable, deprived and under privileged poor people of the society those who are less in land, money, asset and away from employment, education, and awareness on socio-economic issues, health and hygiene with minimum strength. Foundation believes that, united efforts can reach towards the ultimate destination is possible to bring optimum results for humankind. Thus, Foundation urges cordial appeal and fervently request among the donors, development partners, civil society organizations, experts, consultants, volunteers to extend their hands of cooperation and assistance thus we could assist the most neglected, less advanced beneficiaries and bring them in the mainstream of development and be productive manpower as the Foundation believes that people would able to reach their ultimate goals of their own journey of development.