Project Name: Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of poor Households Towards Elimination of their Poverty ( ENRICH)
Objective: To ensure optimal use of a family’s current wealth and equity and to take initiatives to increase its wealth and equity as appropriate. In this program, with the aim of sustainable poverty alleviation, the family takes the initiative to implement the prosperity program with the financial support of PKSF to create employment opportunities for the poor population in the form of financial integrated development. Almost everyone involved in the development movement would strongly agree that poverty reduction cannot be achieved through microcredit alone. Therefore, to eliminate poverty in the country, there is a need for integrated development programs with health, education, nutrition, human rights, gender and other related aspects related to the livelihood of poor people. So the Samriddhi program has been formulated in light of that.
Project Goal: The main objective of this program is to eradicate multidimensional poverty through the resources and capabilities of the people of Union. Pre-requisites for any group to move forward are positive changes in socio-economic conditions including economic emancipation, increasing awareness among the people of the Union. Through the Samriddhi program, an attempt has been made to bring people from all walks of life in the society on the same platform to achieve overall prosperity of the area. Establishing human dignity in the human development index, creating income flow in the family through family development planning, taking active steps to create skilled population through trade based training. The neglected population in the society is not excluded from the mainstream of development. Education, health and sanitation, training are needed to include the youth in the mainstream of development, including involvement in various activities in the formation of the society. Samriddhi program is taking contemporary steps to implement these issues.
Project Brief: a) Deploying the poor families participating in the program so that they can move towards development with a strong commitment to poverty reduction on a sustainable basis.
b) Ensuring access of the poor (especially women and children) to health, education and nutrition.
c) Taking effective measures to deal with natural disasters and the poor families participating in subsequent resettlement by working together with local communities and related institutions.
d) To develop the cooperation of local residents from the grassroots level in implementing the integrated development process with the aim of sustainable poverty alleviation. 3. Project assistance including: a) Multipurpose loan/grant assistance on soft terms to new development initiatives, b) Appropriate assessment and training under existing programmers, c) Plantation of trees/vegetables production and marketing d) Infrastructural production
e) Local community initiatives
f) Primary health care
g) Increasing equality
h) Micro insurance Foreign employment
J) Savings and wealth growth is a positive initiative process at the family level
k) Human rights and gender discrimination l) Enhancing the collective equity of local communities in disaster prevention.
Working Area: (Name Of Sub District, District.)
Union 3. Upazila 3, District 2
1. Kanchikata union Of Sub District Bhadargong under Shariatpur District.
2. Alawolpur Union Of Sub District Goshairhat under Shariatpur District
3. Durgapur Uttar Algi Union Of Sub District Haimchar under Chandpur District.
Beneficiaries: Total: 89,415 person.
Major activities: ENRICH program is mainly conducting multidisciplinary activities to increase the wealth and capacity of families in addition to the establishment of human dignity, education, health, social development, agricultural family development, income-raising work, vocational training and poverty alleviation. Notable among them are:- • Educational support
• Health and nutrition
• Sanitation
• Development of family enterprise
• Communities or social development activities
• Modernization of agriculture
• Income generating activities
• Life oriented and career oriented training
• Skill development training
• Creation of employment through training
• Provision of scholarships for poor and meritorious students to pursue higher education.
• Disaster response
• Role of youth in social development
• Increasing social awareness
• Gender equality
• Mental development of students through cultural and sports.
• Day celebration/observation.
• Development of relationship with various public and private service providers
• Beggar rehabilitation
• Special Savings Program
• Providing free medical services to the public through health camps and satellite clinics.
• Free Cataract operation for poor and helpless people.
• Provision of additional income at the family level through the establishment of prosperous houses.
• Help in setting up eco-friendly campuses.
• Taking action on Verme Compost/Organic Fertilizer production.
• Involvement of union people in primary health care at household level.
• Distribution of free Iron, Calcium, Pustikana and deworming medicines.
• Demand based loan facility for income generating activities.
• Credit facilities for wealth creation and improvement of living standards.
