Ensuring Effective Legal Aid Support Services
In ou assessment the implementation of the Ensuring Effective Legal Aid Support Services Program being implemented by MJF and PROTTOY as local partner is very effective and its results are remarkable. This project has yielded many unique outputs and will have a long-lasting impact in the society, especially in the life of women and children in the working area those who are not able to reach government facilitates just due to lack of awareness.However, with the implementation of the Ensuring Effective Legal Aid Support ServicesProgram implemented by MJF and PROTTOY as local partner have brought a significant change in the working area, especially the women of the working area are becoming aware of their rights and now they are rushing to the UPLAC for seeking justice through applica- tion to the Judge Court, Chandpur and Hobigonj. They are getting back their confidence in justice provided by Government as well opportunity created by NLASO instead of blaming their fortune. The project activities have helped the vulnerable people to (i) name/ identify their grievances as legally soluble problems. The service recipients have undoubtedly developed a feeling that it is not always right to say and think that ‘nothing can be done’ against injustices they suffer. In the process, the vulnerable and the disadvantaged have been able to (ii) blame/identify the culprit for their grievances. This can be read from their allegations against the cornered responsible persons such as husbands, torturers, police, or other state agencies, and so on. Thirdly, they have been enabled to (iv) make legal claims for remedying their problems. For example, the victims are claiming through UPLAC or litigations the restitution of conjugal life, payment of dower and maintenance costs, and custody of children and so on. Also there has become created a positive environment of ‘winning’ in that the society covered by the Project is arguably in a better position to recognize rights and legitimate interests of the vulnerable people. Lastly, the project activities have been successful in (v) enforcing legal outcomes and spreading the benefits of these outcomes and information about them to the potential victims of injustices.
Safe Migration For Bangladeshi workers
In partnership with BRAC International PROTTOY has been implementing the paroject at Comilla District.
The goal of this programme is to ensure improved livelihood of Bangladeshi migrant workers and their family members through human rights promotion and protection. It facilitates formation of migration forums at grassroots levels, formed of returnee migrants, teachers, volunteers and active and interested members of the community.It also provides information and referral services for migration loan, training on skills and language, and assistance with visa applications. In addition, the programme provides pre-decision orientation to potential migrants and pre-departure orientation to departing migrants. The programme liaises with PROTTOY’s other programmes provide to an integrated support the to migrants.PROTTOY/BRAC liaises with relevant ministries to influence relevant Bangladeshi missions abroad for welfare support of migrants during the migration period. The migration programme works to create an enabling environment and facilitates socio- economic re-integration of migrant workers, their families and returnee migrants.BRAC also facilitates returnee migrants in utilising skills to establish income-generating activities (IGA) and small and medium enterprises (SME). The re-integration compo- nent of PROTTOY/BRAC finds stronger focus on women and vulnerable migrants.
Community-based Rehabilitation of people with disabilities
The Community-based Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities (PWD) aims to increase access of children with disabilities to medical treatment and equipment to assist them in their disabilities. It also attempts to provide assistance to families of children with disabilities to improve their living condition by providing income generating oppor- tunities. This is a huge task which starts with empowerment of the members of the family. Its role is very crucial in equipping the young- sters with basic skills to survive. The initial education or awareness activity provided by the Project was a good start to provide some basic knowledge on how to train PWDs with life survival skills. Through these initiatives, more people realized the value of disabled children as contributors in the community. Total Number of Participants of the Project:35; Total Number of Equipment/ Disability Aid Distributed: Wheelchair-2, Standing Table-1, Walker-8, Back Slab- 10, Corner chair-5, White Cane-10, Braile-1, Sewing Machine (IGA)- 2
Environmentally Friendly Cook Stove
PROTTOY have been working with MUSPANA and doing various workshops regarding the stove with the local govt, we have organized various mela, cooking competition and cultural program in order to lunch MUSPANA stove among the local women. We have also arranged various school session in which we have discussed about the serious effect caused by conventional stoves and the advantages of using MUSPANA stove in this case.
It was said in the press conference that every year about 50,000 people die because of household air pollution of whom most are women and children. This clean cooking stove will reduce the number of deaths, said the officials.In Bangladesh, 84% of households are using fuelwood for cooking. Burning solid biomass is inefficient at converting energy to heat for cooking, and Releases a toxic mix of health damaging pollutants that contribute to climate change at regional and global levels.
Mother and new later care project
PROTTOY’S UK Project Proshanti provides the community in juri with care for pregnant women and their babies. We give ante-natal care for the full term of the pregnancy and six weeks of post-natal care. Our success rate of over 99% live births is far above the regional and national average and all mothers have survived during this period. Our service includes doctor visits, home visits by PROTTOY-proshanti nurse, blood tests, abdominal scans, medication, transportation of patients and delivery costs including caesar- ean sections where necessary. PROTTOY-Proshanti also provides health education to the women, their family members and others who might benefit from their safe delivery. The care includes at least 4 home visits by specialized midwives and nurses plus clinic visits. PROTTOY- Proshanti provides these services to poor and marginalized women from all religions and castes who would otherwise have no access to medical care while they are pregnant.The services were rendered to the clients as planned. Besides more patients were unrolled than the planned due to their retrial condition. The antenatal cares were slightly less than planned due to bad weather condition. More time were spend on distributing iron and calcium tablets. All the medical test were done as per doctor’s advice caesuras and critical normal deliveries are taken case under sylhet osmani medical college & hospital and abdul aziz medical centre. Other normal deliveries took place at their homes with the help of our mid wives.
Combating Violence against Women
The organization is actively working for the project at comilla district. In Bangladesh women are lagging behind the men in all aspects of life. Rural urban slums women are victim of early marriage, divorce, mental, physical torture and worst kind of violence against them; gender violence is violence against women that result in physical, mental, sexual, coercion or arbitrary deprivation and violence of human rights. To stop this violence and for the recovery of the victims we have done the following activities: Court yard meeting Stopping early Marriage, Referred victim BLAST & BNWLA, Union meeting, District level work with beneficiaries and distributed cows, trees, goats, sewing machines etc. for raising their livelihood.
Rural Housing Project
This programme is under implemention At comilla adarsha sadar Burichong and Brahmampara Upazila of comilla district, Where GREHAYAN TOHOBIL of Bangladesh bank, is providing finance to meet the expenses of the program, the merits of this program is to rehabilitate and re-settlement of the victims of disasters and/or shelter less is a highest concern of Bangla- desh. The broader objective of the project is to provide low cost housing loan to the disaster victims and shelter less ultra poor people.
Prottoy Scholarship Project
For disadvantaged student of the community; prottoy with the financial support of prottoy credit program started prottoy scholarships program from 2014.The objective of providing scholarships to underprivileged students (irrespective of religion, ethnicity and gender) of Bangladesh is to help them in achieving equal opportunity in getting into formal education system and continuing quality education up to minimum Grade-12.
Anti-Corruption Campaign
Micro Credit Program (Revolving Credit Fund)
Human Rights & Legal Awareness Program
Under this programme we did the following activities:(1) Promoted awareness and family law; (2) Educated target group on land law, family law, protecting dowry, dower, marriage registration, divorce, polygamy, hindu law, inheritance law; (3) Legal Awareness Education for implementation committee (LAEIC) formation and conduct monthly meeting; (4) Registered complain against any kind of violence on women; (5) Arbitration (6) Filed case in family court(7) Trained on the issue for village leader, group member, religious leader, marriage register, elected representative, case study; (8) Arranged folk song, drama; (9) Distributed IEC material
