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Head office:
West Balighata, P.O: Panchbibi,
Upazila: Panchbibi, District: Joypurhat.
Liaison office: House # 14, 2nd Floor, Road # 9, Shekhertek,
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Telephone: +880 571 75111
Mobile Phone: +880 1711 054796, +880 1913 365957
E-mail: sdsjoy2000@gmail.com , sds_aysha@yahoo.com
Web: www.sdsjoy.org.bd
I would like to take the privilege to bring the glory to the Almighty we have been able to carry our planned activities successfully for the year 2022 – 2023 despite of social and natural hindrances. We started our journey with the firm dedication and commitment to enhance friendly environment, women empowerment, sound health for the deprived, education for the children, income generating program for the unemployed, skill development and socio-economic development of people are in need. Provide the services on health care, education for children, ensure of pure drinking water and hygienic sanitation, agriculture facilities, encouraging on income generation activities to establish social rights and creation self-employment opportunities through our programs intervention especially among the farmers, neglected, downtrodden and destitute children and women and aboriginal people of our country for their sustainable development.
Another year tremendous effort, hard work and deep dedication is behind us, I want to thank many local SDS workers, consultant and board members who serve compassionately under often very challenging circumstances. Their love and joy allows individuals and whole communities to gain a new perspective for life and a vision hope despite deprivation and marginalization.
I convey my sincere thanks and gratefulness to our board, staff, donors and the government to extent their supports and help in special ways for enabling us to achieve our target narrated in this dossier. We encourage and invite all readers to come and witness how the lives are being transformed by our development cooperation and facilitation.
Most sincerely,
Chairman
SDS, Panchbibi, Joypurhat
Bangladesh.
First of all, devote of all of our success and performance to the All Mighty God. By the grace of God, we could able to prepare this annual report. Social Development Service (SDS) is going to publish its annual activities and program progress report, covering the progress, achievements implementation in and limitations of the organization for the period of Jul, 2022, to June, 2023. In this reporting period SDS has able to show a significant performance in the women empowerment, child development and environment development along with socio-economic development at the expanded working area for the poor, underprivileged, backward aboriginal people, disaster affected and vulnerable people with the contribution of some local, national and Government institutions. Though having fund limitation but it could not affect on the program implementation due to the commitment of skilled and experienced staff team and the grateful help of committee members. By the sincere help of SDS family members and the local donors it could able to bring positives arrange of the poor community livelihood. The backward and destitute women are now socially and economically empowered, they are getting value in the family and society ensuring the social dignity with establishing the gender equity and vulnerable children are getting education & primary health assistance.
I like to thank all of my working friends and be loved colleagues to their sincere contribution and performance. I am very much grateful for the cordial participation of community program partners. I express my gratitude to the government development department, local government administration, donors and the partner organization. I also convey my grateful thanks to the SDS family members of executive and general committee members to their kind help and inspiration, like to thank all the known and unknown well-wisher of our organization..
Most sincerely,
Ayesha Akter
Executive Director
SDS, Panchbibi, Joypurhat
Bangladesh
Annual Progress Report of 2022 – 2023
Panchbibi, Joypurhat
Bangladesh
Social Development Service (SDS) has established as a non-government, non-political, non-profit voluntary development female headed organization. It established in the year 2000 by the main initiative of a women activist named Ayesha Akter along with some social organizers at Panchbibi Upazilla of Joypurhat district. Observing the vulnerability & poverty of deprived population and women exploitation with gender discrimination in the society where women are not the partner of national development and inactiveness of women in the development structure. But in the country male and female ratio is 50% and this 50% workforce is out of development so with only by the 50% male workforce it cannot be achieve the 100% development of country in this case 50% female workforce must be the development partner of 50% male work force. On this concept these women activists united with likeminded aim to establish a development organization to empower the women and deprived population about their rights and scope for basic needs enhancement and develop their skills to be potential workforce of community and country and unite the deprived population and women to raise their voice against exploitation and discrimination and enhance their rights and dignity in the community and nation with gender equity.
Joypurhat district situated at the northern region of Bangladesh it is border area of Bangladesh and India. Maximum population is depending on agro based day labor or share croppers and small trade because maximum agriculture land of this district is belongs to few landlords and for that reason general people are depend on agriculture day labor or share croppers. Due to the financial poverty and lack of awareness they are deprived from the rights of education, health and all other service benefits. Due to minimum education & skills rate of the vulnerable groups employment scope is out of them so the unemployment is one of the main issue of this area so for this reason they are getting involvement in smuggling, drug addiction and some other anti social activities due to the land port is very close to this area. On other hand as they are low income labor that is why women are exploiting and torturing without any reason. Due to unemployment many of them involve with drug abuse. The livelihoods of low income people have effect on early marriage, multiple marriage and dowry and getting target of several social bondages. Agricultural lands are losing fertility due to extensive inorganic agro crops production due to population is increasing rapidly. Forestation is decreasing and agriculture lands of aboriginal people are going to housing settlement. Women groups are totally neglected and exploited in the development issues and have no initiative to involve the women work force and leadership to participate in the development context.
Later this women activist realized that by the male headed and male activists organizing it cannot be possible. Only by the women headed organization it can be possible because a women organization can understand and realize the problem and lack of women capability and needs. So with the strong determination of gender development SDS has established at Joypurhat District with some defined objectives and goal. It gives first priority on women education and empowerment on skill development to be an earning member of the family and society. Because if a women is educated and workforce for the family and society and financially capable to contribute in the family and society development she will have demand and value to the family and society and will deserve for development planning of family and society then only she will get potentiality and dignity in the family and society. And it will be possible for the nation to have 100% development as the inactive 50% women workforce are educated and skill and are participating in the national development planning. SDS is implementing integrated development activities among the most destitute and vulnerable women, children and men who are out of development access.
Legal status of SDS:
Social Development Service (SDS) is registered with the following authorities:-
| S.N | Registration Authority | Reg. No. | Date | Renewal Date |
| 1 | Dept. of Social Welfare | Joy-274/2001 | 23.10.2001 | – |
| 2 | NGO Affairs Bureau | 2620 | 26.11.2011 | 30.01.2021-29.01.2031 |
| 3 | Department Of Youth Development | 41/2017 | 31.12.2017 | – |
| 4 | Bangladesh Technical Education Board (BTEB) | 19089 | 07.06.2018 05.10.2020 | – |
| 5 | Micro-credit regulatory authority | 21112-00729-00802 | 07.05.2018 | – |
Vision statement of SDS:
SDS considers Bangladesh society as environmentally sound and standard to survive, to be economically productive and equitable socially with gender, empowered for achieving ownership and dignity with democratic.
Mission statement of SDS:
To ensure Innovative, holistic, transformational, qualitative and sustainable development, by up-grading living standard, ensuring friendly environment, adaptation to the condition and empowerment of the poor and vulnerable women, man and children.
Goal/Aim of SDS:
To empower distressed vulnerable poor and affected in socio-economic emancipation to lead an active and healthy life. Through formation of community based institutions, introducing skill training, green revolution, education, health assistance, social forestation, adaptation, rehabilitation and mobilizing local resources especially manpower, water and soil. Along with facilitate them in establishing their due rights in the society and ownership to the program.
List of the Executive Board Members
Leadership and management:
SDS has an approved constitution, where have a General Council consisting of 25 members and an Executive Council comprised of 07 members. Members of the General Council and Executive Council are voluntarily providing the basic foundation of the organization.
The general council members are nominated from the variety of stakeholders and development professionals and play the vital role of developing and amending the core principles and policies of the organizations. This general board sits for once a year. The executive council approves the yearly budget and expenditure, action plan, project proposals and major administrative decisions. It also appoints the executive director and assigns his duties and responsibilities. It also makes any kind of constitutional amendments if necessary. This executive board is sitting for quarterly in the year total 4 time they sit together to activate the organization management and administration.
The executive director is accountable to the executive council and acts as the chief executive officer and looks after all execution related matters. She takes decisions time to time to run the organization and its activities smoothly. The Director coordinates the overall programs activities and responsible for monitoring and evaluation and also for reporting and documentation. The other staffs are also assigned for specific duties and responsibilities according to the code of conduct.
Present programs and activities:
a) Awareness & capacity building program:
b) Education:
c) Health program:
d) Skill development training program:
e) Agro based program:
f) Income generating program:
g) Gender, disable and aboriginal development program:
h) Environment development program:
i) Relief and rehabilitation program:
j) Advocacy, lobby & days observation program:
k) Special project with Government:
Implementation:
Within this reporting period SDS could able to arrange about 35 courtyard meeting among the vulnerable and aboriginal people about their basic rights and needs.
Where 1325 people participated and could able to understand about their rights and basic needs to enhance from the service providers. SDS is conducting monthly meeting, seminar and workshop with development groups about the value of their children education, gender development, personal hygiene and prevention of early marriage by the trained staff team of SDS.Now program partners are conscious about their children education and sending children to the school, women are participating in the development activities without any problem. They are conscious about their personal health and keeping contact with SDS and with government health service providers, now in our working area have no cases of early marriage. Girls are going to schools for higher education. These activities are ongoing and continuous for each and every staff monthly plan of action.
Education:
Within this reporting period SDS is running pre-education centers for the poor and vulnerable children. In these centers children are getting pre-education to get admission in the primary schools. During this reporting period children have successfully complete pre-education and have admitted at nearby primary school by the help of teachers and staffs they are doing well in the primary school.
In this reporting period SDS is running 350 non-formal education centers among the dropout children and working children at 5 upazilas of Joypurhat district by those centers 10498 dropout children
is getting education. In each learning center parents of the children are sitting for monthly meeting. In that meeting parents are getting awareness on effect of early marriage, dowry, women empowerment and personal hygiene along with various development issues. This activity is ongoing non-formal education they are under process to get admit at high school by the assistance of SDS. By this program SDS could able to increase the child education rate of its working area.
As the adult literacy activity is the continuous process for its group members to literate them to follow the organization development activities. So it is duty for all the staffs of SDS. Within this reporting period they could able to literate about 175 group members now they could able to follow the development activities of the organization and participating in the planning & implementing process of the development program of SDS.
Health program:
Health is wealth and without sound health no one can participate in the development process. On this regard SDS is providing awareness building on health education on preventive measures among the targeted beneficiaries in the working area it is the regular activity of SDS performing by the organization staffs as their monthly plan of action. In this reporting period SDS has provided health treatment services to 450 mothers and children. It has taken care of pregnant women and children and provided medicine free of cost to 520 women and children.
During this reporting period SDS is implementing rural sanitation program among the rural poor people especially the aboriginal people who are not habituated to use water sealed latrine. For the natural call they used to use the open field or busses. They are not aware about the effect of open field using for the natural call due to that environment are polluting and spreading water borne diseases.
Our staff team is providing awareness building activities among the people and motivating them to use water sealed latrine and established 20 water sealed latrine among the poor aboriginal families. Now they are using sanitary latrine so the environment of that area is pollution free and are not affecting by the air and water borne diseases and living with sound health.
Water is live and without water no other living creature can be alive but it should be safe and pure drinking water. Due to lack of pure and safe drinking water sources people of the rural area are drinking river, cannel and ponds water and also using for housing purpose and they are affecting by several water borne and water body diseases. People are not aware about the effect of using of unhygienic normal water, organization staffs are motivating the people about the subject and encouraging them to install the tube-well properly and compact the side of the tube-well by concrete. To ensure the safe and pure drinking water SDS is supplying water by underground pipeline from reserve overhead tank & 250 tube-wells. During this reporting period it could able to supply pure and safe water to 1250 families.
SDS staffs are encouraging poor program partners about the nutrition and providing awareness on value added food processing and introducing them about organic vegetable gardening. Within this reporting period it has conducted 10 courtyard meetings among 250 program partners on food preparation and vegetable gardening. No they initiating and producing organic vegetable around their homestead area and eating and marketing chemical free vegetable at local market and earnings money to solve their financial problem.
Skill development training program:
During this reporting period SDS has conducted 4 hand embroidery training for 100 vulnerable women as the skill development to have self employment and to create women entrepreneurs to create employment scope for the unemployed poor women. These skilled women are now producing several hand embroidery products and marketing at local and national market. Now they are financially empowered and getting value and dignity in the family and community.
To be skilled on extra profession of the destitute women organization is providing sewing/dress making & leather product training among the vulnerable, widow, divorce women to have financial empowerment. In this reporting period SDS has able to provide sewing training to 100 destitute, divorced and widow women it is continuous activity for the vulnerable women. Now these women are producing and getting order from the customers and earning for their family now they are getting value from their families and could able to solve the financial problem and passing a peaceful livelihood. These skilled women could able to create some employment scope for other destitute and vulnerable women.
SDS is continuing computer skill training among the educated poor youth which is necessary to be employed in some organization. Due to financial poverty poor student are not capable to learn information technology from other institution, organization is providing them IT training to apply for a job because for any job knowledge and skill of IT is giving special emphasis. Due to that educated poor youth are not getting job and without employment they are diverting to the drug addiction. In this reporting period SDS has provided IT training to 60 youth and maximum of them are doing job and self-employed.
During this reporting period SDS has conducted auto mobile & driving training for 25 unemployed youths and able to manage employment scope for 20 trained youths. It has conducted electrical and house wiring system training for 25 youths. After their training now 25 youths are employed at private company and some are self-employed. Now they are also an earning member of the family and getting value and dignity in the family and society.
Agro based program:
Organization is providing agro-based training and consultation among the marginal farmers and share croppers. It is providing simple return loan and agriculture equipment to the farmers and providing cost effective irrigation facility to the poor and marginal farmers. During this reporting it has given support to 250 farmers. During this reporting period SDS has conducted training on organic homestead gardening for 75 program partners and provided vegetable seed and technical support to initiate organic vegetable gardening around their house area
SDS has promoted poultry and duck rearing farming for the poor group members of SDS. Within this activity it has arranged some awareness topics and short training to initiate farming. Within this period about 20 families has developed 20 farms as the income generating activities of their families.
Violence Against Gender, disable and aboriginal development program:
Love to the disable and care for them to ensure their rights is the humanitarian demand for all nations. As a development organization SDS is giving value and giving continuous support to the disable people. It is providing health services along with providing training and supplying necessary equipments and materials for their free and easy livelihood. It is observing several days to ensure the implementation of disable rights along with this it is providing them education assistance, health support and equipment support within this reporting it could able to support 20 disable person.
During this reporting Period SDS has provided special initiative to include the aboriginal people and provided them support on health issues, employment and income generation activities and training. Within this program period about 550 aboriginal families are SDS program partners. Among these aboriginal families within this reporting period SDS has distributed 28 Black Bengal goats among 14 aboriginal families to encourage them on livestock farming.
During this reporting period SDS has capable to aware and prevent early marriage and dowry system by the program intervention of SDS development program and activities. It is supporting female victims who are tortured by the social vicious circle. Now early marriage, dowry system & women exploitation rates are decreasing from SDS working area.
Rural Employment & Road Maintenance Programme-3 (RERMP-3):
SDS is implementing a project named Rural Employment & Road Maintenance Programme-3 (RERMP-3) supporting by LGED at 290 unions under 35 Upazills of 4 districts named Joypurhat, Bogura, Sjrajgoanj & Papna. Under this project 2900 vulnerable women are receiving life skill and skill development training to build up their skill to enhance their economical development in the income generation activities which are as follows:
a) Food and nutrition
b) Health, hygiene and sanitation system
c) Homestead gardening
d) Accounting system & management
e) Child education
f) Social structure, gender & development
g) Early marriage prevention and consciousness
h) Women Exploitation and preventive laws
i) Awareness raising on corona virus prevention
j) Encouragement on income generating activities of the Program participants
Vulnerable women Benefit (VWB):
Vulnerable Women Benefit (VWB) supporting by Women & Children Affairs Ministry of Bangladesh Government under this project SDS is implementing food support and training activities on life skill and skill development training at Akkelpur & Kalia Upazillas of Joypurhat district. By this project organization could able to provide food grain and skill training among 2536 vulnerable women to ensure the nutrition and economical development by creating own capital through doing savings.
Environment development program:
Today due to environment pollution the global climate change is affecting several natural disasters and changing the pattern of the natural seasonal issues. Over carbon emission in the atmosphere is increasing the carbon footprint. So it is creating problem survival of living beings at the World. Regarding this issue SDS is very much sincere to introduce several environment development activities among them it is promoting social forestation among the program partners and distributing tree saplings to the partners for social forestation and road side plantation. It is motivating people to take activities on bio-diversity and prevention of carbon emission.
Relief and rehabilitation program:
Relief and rehabilitation program is ongoing activities of SDS under this program it has distributed winter cloth among the aboriginal and vulnerable families. During this reporting period it has distributed quilts among 500 families. SDS has distributed food items among the disaster affected 100 families and provided medicine support to the people who are weak in health.
Advocacy and lobby & days observation program:
As the non-government organization SDS is conducting and promoting advocacy and lobby with several local government and government development department to increase the program and activities of the organization. Within this reporting period SDS has arranged 24 meetings (upazilla, 12 & district, 12) and counseling with local government and government development departments.
Within this reporting period SDS has arranged 24 meetings (upazilla, 12 & district, 12) and counseling with local government and government development departments. SDS with her program partners has arranged several national, international and humanitarian days’ observation with conducting mass gathering, rally & discussion at its working area. During this reporting period SDS has conducted 12 activities on World women day, mother’s day, children day, World environment day, independent day, international language day, international human rights day, Rokeya day, international youth day.
Income generating program through micro-finance:
If a group of people are united and having leadership with development concepts than that group have capability to undertake any development activities with success efforts. On that idea SDS is developing development groups with the backward people and is introducing self confidence of socio-economic development. SDS is providing leadership training and concept on planning and targeted goal then forming development groups. Each group consist of 20/30 women. Within this reporting period 25 saving groups have formed and activating their saving and management activities among the groups. Inception to date total number of the development groups are 107. Group member are sitting for weekly development meeting and doing savings now total outstanding of savings are BDT 38, 92,100/-.
SDS is encouraging the vulnerable and poor group members to initiate some income generating program to increase their family income and providing simple process loan as the capital to undertake income based activities and the schemes are duck and poultry rearing, livestock rearing, van/rickshaw purchase, vegetable gardening, small business, seasonal crops cultivation livestock rearing. Organization’s staffs are keeping regular follow-up to the proper utilization of the capital. Inception to date total 5110 members have received loan to undertake the income generating activities and they are now successful to increase their family income and could able to solve the financial problems. This program is playing a vital role of the organization sustainability. During this reporting period total number of loan receivers and outstanding of the micro finance are as follows.
| No. Of Looney | Loan Outstanding |
| 1278 | 1,53,46,772/- |
During this reporting period SDS has promoted low cost housing activities for the poor and destitute women. Under this program SDS could able to provide loan with simple interest among 25 poor and destitute families now they have a peaceful shelter which they never think to have a environment friendly house. They are now happy to the organization
Conclusion:
Thanks to all mighty Allah that SDS is able to confirm and perform all the programs and activities as per targeted goal and objectives with in this reporting year. All the family members of SDS have participated with their full capacity and commitment to achieve this successful annual report. Though having fund limitation, SDS has managed to implement all the activities through its own fund, local donors and Government partnership fund. SDS is introducing different innovative process of fund raising and seeking donors who are supporting on development issues at Bangladesh. SDS will continue to include more poor of the poorest, backward population; risk community, affected victims, and underprivileged, along with them physical and mental disable persons under its development umbrella to the socio-economic development of their livelihood and friendly environment that they may ensure their value and dignity in the society. Our ultimate aim is to ensure value and dignity of the deprived and vulnerable people in the society. Also our aim is to keep transparency, accountability, determination, democracy, human rights, law and order in implementation of all development activities and programs. Socio-economic development and environment development of the targeted population is not easy task for SDS alone. If we get support from local benevolent personnel, government, non-government and donors, we may able to bring development process for all of the targeted peoples. Regarding that we spread our hand to all for the financial and technical assistance.
