Dalit
Basic Informations
The organization has been named “Dalit” to represent the dalit and marginalized community people. Dalit is a Bengali word which means oppressed, exploited, neglected and deprived. Some dalit people were the visionary-dreamers that created Dalit organization and the autobiography of Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar was their immense inspiration. Dalit is working since 1998 for empowering and mainstreaming dalit & other marginalized communities in the south-western part of Bangladesh. It is bringing hope to thousand of hopeless families through several programs: Pre-primary, Primary, and Secondary education for children; support to Higher Studies and Vocational trainings for adolescents; Human Rights awareness meetings to eliminate violence against women and child marriages; Health care including SRHR, Access to safe water, sanitation & hygiene; Livelihood activities for vulnerable women (as handicraft and homestead agriculture/farming), and Ayurvedic medicines production. Dalit got registration from NGO Affairs Bureau (N.1374) in 1999 and Ministry of Social Welfare (Khulna/1389/10) in 2010.
Dalit is working in the south-west region of Bangladesh. It covers 276 villages of 73 unions under 17 sub-districts of Khulna, Jashore, Satkhira and Bagerhat districts, serving 12,811 families (direct).
Address
Dalit WASH-SDG Project Office
Satkhira City College more (Rasulpur),
Satkhira.
Vision
A world in which dalit and other marginalized communities realize their full potential in caste-based free societies that respect people's rights and dignity.
Mission
Achieving sustainable and lasting improvements in dalit’s and other marginalized and socially excluded groups’ quality of life, facilitating the access to education, promoting and advocating for their basic human rights, boosting community health, increasing the access to livelihood opportunities and WASH facilities.
Objectives
Dalit admits the following as organizational objectives:
- Inclusion of dalit community people in the mainstream development
- Socio-economic improvement of the dalit community people
- Empowerment of the dalit community
Major Activities
- Formal and non-formal Education Program;
- Hospital services (Indoor, Outdoor, Diagnosis unit);
- Handicraft production and promotion program;
- Early Child Marriage and Dowry Prevention program;
- Ayurvedic/ Traditional Medicine production and promotion program;
- Village healer & Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) training program;
- Safe Drinking Water supply and Sanitation program;
- Women Education and Rights-awareness program;
- Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights program;
- Relief and Rehabilitation program;
- Technical & I.G.A. training;
- Food security due to climate change;
Head Office
Dalit
37/1, KEDARNATH ROAD, MOHESHWARPASHA, KUET, DAULATPUR, KHULNA-9203, BANGLADESH
Phone: +88-02-477733241
Cell: +88-01711-129986
Email: dalitkhulna@gmail.com
Project Office
(1) Dalit Project Office
Tala Govt. College Main Road, Tala, Satkhira.
(2) Dalit Project Office
Bardal Mission, Assasuni, Satkhira.
(3) Dalit Project Office
Uttor Kadomtala (Garaz Bazar), Shyamnagar, Satkhira.
List of Excutive Body
- Adv. Tapon Kumar Das, President
- Adv. Sagorika Das, Vice-President
- Mr. Swapon Kumar Das, Secretary
- Mrs. Golapi Das, Assistant Secretary
- Dr. Binoy Krishna Das, Treasurer
- Mrs. Kusum Sarker, Member
- Mr. Suranjan Das, Member
- Mrs. Ratna Das, Member
- Mrs. Usha Sarker, Member
Chief of NGO
Name: Swapon Kumar Das
Designation: Executive Director
Phone & Mobile No. +8802477733241 (+8801711129986)
Staff Strength
| Staff category | Male | Female | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management and Supervision | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Mid-level | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Field Worker | 5 | 12 | 17 |
| Support Staff | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Infrastructure facilities:
| Particulars | Total Number |
|---|---|
| N/A | 0 |
Network / Forum
Micro credit related information Last three years: (If necessary)
| Financial year | Amount of Savings | Loan disbursement (Cumulative) | Amount of Total fund (Tk) |
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Project List ( Total Project : 5 )
Project Name : Literacy Program for Marginalized Community
Doner : Mission Bambini Foundation
Sector : Education & Social Awareness
Area : Tala
Time Line : January 2022 to December 2022
Brief of activities :
‘Literacy program for marginalized community’ is a rich, multi-faceted project. The project has been playing a significant role to develop children’s potential through quality education, character-building lessons and awareness building on their rights and duties, improving women's education and social awareness in Tala Upazila area.
Most of the people in the project areas are extremely poor and socially neglected. The objectives of the project are to improve the quality of life of these disadvantaged people as follows:
- encouraging the children to go to school regularly;
- to increase the literacy rate in dalit & disadvantaged communities;
- to provide assistance in the health protection of students;
- to increase knowledge on women's rights, social rights including human rights amongst adolescent girl students;
- to interaction with the goal of creating social awareness for the prevention of child marriage and increasing public awareness against the child marriage system;
- enhancing awareness on the establishment of human rights and elimination of caste discrimination;
Project Name : Empowering Dalit & Marginalized Communities through Integrated Program
Doner : Fondazione Fare Welfare Onlus
Sector : Education, IGA & Social Awareness
Area : Shyamnagar
Time Line : January 2022 to December 2022
Brief of activities :
‘Empowering dalit and marginalized communities through integrated program’ is a rich, multi-faceted project. The project has been playing a significant role to develop children’s potential through quality education, character-building lessons and awareness building on their rights and duties, improving women's education and social awareness in Shyamnagar Upazila area.
Most of the people in the project areas are extremely poor and socially neglected. The objectives of the project are to improve the quality of life of these disadvantaged people as follows:
- to increase the literacy rate in dalit & disadvantaged communities;
- to increase knowledge on women's rights, social rights including human rights amongst adolescent girl students;
- helping dalit children develop their talents;
- to keep the health of the villagers' risk free;
- to develop the skills of dalit women in the production of agricultural and household products and to make them income-oriented;
- raise awareness of women's rights among young women, their guardians and leaders;
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