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Winter
Assistance Programme
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| Poverty and simple living
conditions leave the people of northern Bangladesh unable to
cope with the harsh weather conditions that often strike during
winter months. This project is designed to offer assistance
to the poor through the provision of shawls and blankets... |
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Emergency
and Disaster Preparedness |
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| Bangladesh is prone
to natural disasters. Because of this, IR has made its 'Emergency
and Disaster Preparedness' project a priority. As a part of
this programme IR conducted an Emergency Programme for flood
Victims-2002' at Gaibanda, one of the northern district of Bangladesh...
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Mother
and Child HealthCare (MCH) |
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| The Mother and Child
Healthcare (MCH) programme is designed to provide better health
facilities for the people, especially for mothers and children
in the deprived Mithapukur sub-district of Rangpur, 330 kilometers
north of the capital Dhaka... |
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Orphan
Sponsorship Project |
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| Islamic Relief began
the Orphan Sponsorship Programme in 1992 with 120 orphans. Orphans
are provided with education, lodging, food, clothes and recreation
facilities. In the year 2002 Islamic Relief sponsored 328 orphans... |
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Water
and Sanitation |
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| Every eight seconds
a child dies of a water related disease. In Bangladesh, the
water and sanitation situation is stark. Many people in rural
Bangladesh resort to using unclean and unhygienic water for
all aspects of life, including washing, drinking and cooking... |
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Community
Action Project (CAP) |
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| CAP is a community-based
project aiming at assisting the poor disadvantaged villagers
to break the vicious cycle of poverty. Through forming small
groups, CAP motivates the people and implements savings, credit
& income generating activities, education and skill enhancing
activities... |
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Health
centre |
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| To improve health facilities
accessible to the poor, IR has established a Health center in
Mithapukur, Bangladesh. This project aims at providing an out
patient service with a full time nurse and doctor, routine pathological
investigations and will supply affordable medicines... |
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Vocational
Training and Employment Support Services (VTESS)
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| The Vocational Training
and Employment Support services (VTESS) project will provide
poor and distressed children, youths and adolescents low cost
vocational training followed by Employment Support Services... |
