About AID
AID believes that poverty must be tackled from a holistic viewpoint, transitioning individuals from being aid recipients to becoming empowered citizens in control of their own destinies. Over the years, AID has organized the isolated poor, learned to understand their needs, piloted, refined and scaled up practical ways to increase their access to resources, support their entrepreneurship, and empower them to become active agents of change. Women and girls have been the central analytical lens of AID’s anti-poverty approach, recognizing both their vulnerabilities but also their thirst for change. Today in Jheanidah, Jessore, Chuadanga and Kushtia districts, AID works to combat poverty in 700 villages and 20 slums, and reaches target population with an integrated package of services for rural and urban communities. We employ more than 100 people. We have learned over time to find the poorest of the poor – those who are destitute and outside the reach of most NGOs – and help them rebuild their lives from scratch and achieve financial independence.
Vision
AID would like to stand beside its beneficiaries by providing need based services and supports like awareness raising, nutrition, health, sanitation, education, agriculture, savings, credit, marketing, gender, environment etc. AID works with people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease and other handicaps. With multifaceted development interventions, AID strives to bring about positive changes in the quality of life of the poor people of its working area. AID firmly believes and is actively involved in promoting human rights, dignity and gender equity through poor people’s social, economic, political and human capacity building. Although the emphasis of AID’s work is at the individual level, sustaining the work of the organization depends on an environment that permits the poor to break out of the cycle of poverty and hopelessness.
Goal
The ultimate goal of the organization is to bring change and develop of socio-economic and cultural status of the disadvantaged and underprivileged people in their respective area.
Objectives
- To organize the target people into groups to develop their unity and solidarity, collective strength and provide them institutional base skill.
- To develop consciousness and awareness among the target people about the social and state systems and their position in the family, society and state.
- To develop their self-image, self-confidence and creativity and make them fit for their desired changes.
- To alleviate the acute poverty of the poorest group members involving them in income-generating activities, legal aid support, adolescent education, primary education, HIV/AIDS prevention and water & Sanitation.
- To improve the lives of the disabled people especially, the disabled children providing various support and services.
- To contribute to ensure human Rights of targeted people and good governance of targeted institution of specific region
- To improve and conservation of environment.
- To respond to the need of the distressed people caused by natural disaster.
Action In Development - AID, Jhenaidah is going to observe WNTD on May 31,2010 at 13 upazilas and 6 districts of Khulna division as a part of its ongoing Tobacco control project (BI funded).
