Countries/ Region- USA
Green Mountain College invites applications for international Undregraduate Scholarship for Food Project in which courses offered by the university in USA.
In partnership with The Food Project, Green Mountain College has established a scholarship for youth who have completed a minimum of 100 hours of service in their community. Finalists for The Food Project Make A Difference Scholarships will be awarded $5,000 dollars towards tuition and fees at Green Mountain College.
Eligibility-
- Volunteer a minimum of 50 hours for the Food Project and additional 50 hours at any registered non-profit.
- Demonstrate financial need
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BSS is affiliated with the following organization/forums, i.e. NGO FORUM, ALRD, SUPRO, IVS, ADAB, Rupontar, TDF, Khan Foundation and Democracy Watch.
Legal Status of BSS:
Barna Samajkallyan Sangstha (BSS) has got Registered with :
a) Social welfare Department, Govt. of Bangladesh bearing Registration No Gopa-602, Dated:30.04.08
b) Woman Affairs, Govt. of Bangladesh bearing Registration No: WA/Gopa/300/2008.Dated: 14.09.2008
c) Listed with Youth Development, Govt. of Bangladesh bearing Listed No:141/09.Dated: 03.03.2009
Contract Person:
APARNA BALA LUCKY
Executive Director
BARNA SAMAJKALLYAN SANGSTHA (BSS)
318, Nirala Nibas,Gohata,Gopalgonj,Bangladesh.
Vision, Mission, Objectives and Strategy of the organization?
Category of Organization:
It is a non-political, non-sectarian, non-profit making and non-governmental voluntary local organization.
Sector focus:
Group formation and institution building of the ultra poor women and men, Group formation & savings program, Training, Education, Research, Income Generation Activities for Employment Opportunities, Primary Health Care, Advocacy for reducing Gender Discrimination, Good Governance, facilitate human right establishment, disable education, adult & child education Agricultural activities, Stop the smoking & drug, Improvement of Reproductive Health , Water Sanitation Health & Hygiene (WASH ), Life Skill program for Adolescent Groups, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change , Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Program, HIV/AIDS prevention activities, Arsenic Mitigation Program etc.
Objectives of BSS:
BSS believes in the potentialities of the people, especially the down trodden marginalized rural people. Once their power of thought & articulation is released, they will be able to attain the vision that BSS aspires to. Keeping the vision in mind, BSS has started its journey with the following objectives:
i) To organize different sectors of people, i.e. the marginalized, landless, homeless, marginal farmers and the destitute women including the fishermen’s and the people of other professions into associations or homogeneous groups consisting of 15-20 members of different classes.
ii) To improve the status of the women community and empower them resisting domestic violence, divorce, dowry system, rape, suicide, etc.
iii) To impart training to the organized landless people, giving top priority on the women community, for developing their professional skills and leadership capability.
iv) To impart formal & non-formal education and functional education to disable, children & adult people.
v) To help people undertake different types of suitable & viable income generating activities for their sustainable economic development so called power.
vi) To achieve the target of health care and family planning, necessary training and awareness raising of different aspects of primary health care, family planning, reproductive health & rights and introduce habit of in taking balanced food of locally available food-grains & vegetables; Knowledge for the prevention of various diseases and the remedial measures along with the education of STDs & HIV/Aids.
vii) To free the country from environmental pollution and to make the environment suitable for human inhabitance. Helping people undertake social forestation program & activate the same through proper discussion and motivation.
viii) A legal awareness program in different aspects be initiated with an ultimate objective of stopping the oppression against the women-hood at the family and the society level as well.
ix) To undertake Disaster Preparedness Program for both man-made, social & natural calamities.
x) To create awareness among the beneficiaries regarding the improved method of cultivation and introducing Farm with high yielding variety of poultry, fish culture, vegetables, agricultural products, etc.
xi) To make the target people aware and educated through relevant reading materials and journals. Establishment of Community Library and Documentation Center for the development of rural people as well as for the development workers of BSS.
xii) To help accelerate the cultural growth as well as mental & spiritual/humane development of the target people though different programs such as staging drama, musical soiree and publishing journals, booklets, brochure etc.
xiii) To develop & introduce proper monitoring, evaluation and research programs for the effective operation of development program, measure the impacts of the activities and find out the appropriate directives.
xiv) Advocacy & lobbying with the concerned people/department/local institutions, etc. to ensure different aspects for their sustainable development.
xv) Ensure participation at the meeting, seminars, workshops where they can share their knowledge and experiences with each other which can help them making effective planning of work procedure in institution building for development.
xvi) To create awareness for controlling drug & awareness build up about its demerits.
xvii) Training on different aspect for youth to self employment & networking.
xviii) Awareness build up programmed for controlling children & women kidnapping.
Baran Samajkallyan Sangstha (BSS) is a local non-government, non-profitable, non-political, non-sectarian voluntary development organization initiated & dedicated for the promotion of Socio-economic development of the landless, shelter-less marginalized farmers since 2007. Since inception BSS is committed to render all possible help to different sectors of people who are neglected, exploited and oppressed by the power structure group of the society. It is a matter of regret that these people previously were in the better economic position, used to cultivate own lands and did not suffer any hardship for maintaining livelihood. But eventually the process of turning them landless and homeless peeped in due to gradual reformation of social structure, devastating flood & cyclone/tidal surges, damages of cultivable lands in the river erosion. These people, due to cheat, marginalization, poverty, illiteracy, ignorance, superstition, for the lack of knowledge of improved seeds & cultivation of high yielding variety, etc. are being deprived of their social and political rights. Sometimes the human rights of these people are even violated to a great extent. The existing dehumanizing process makes all these people solely dependent on critical neighbors who are always in search of their own heinous interests and cause the great suffering for humanity.
Having observed the bitter experiences of torture and pains, some enthusiastic and dedicated people come forward for establishing Barna Samajkallyan Sangstha (BSS) under the active & experienced leadership of Aparna Bala Lucky (Executive Director). Having required sufficient experience in development activities in the national and international organizations she puts her sincere and active leadership in building up of the organization for the betterment & development of the local people.
Changing of people’s life style is being possible through aimed united efforts against vested interested local groups. The downtrodden marginalized organized group members not only defend the vested groups but also transubstantiate each group into a development strategy of poverty alleviation, awareness rising in different fields of activities with an ultimate objective of achieving sustainable socio-economic development.
BSS has been implementing different types of activities/program at Gopalgonj Sadar, Gopalgonj district since its inception as per the needs and requirements of the people and availability of resources. BSS Carries out development activities with the active participation of development partners through its office at 318,Nirala Nibas, Gohata, Gopalgonj of the head office has been done abiding by the organizations bye laws and approval of the concerned Govt. authority.
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