ENRICH-Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of poor Households towards elimination of their poverty-2020-2021
Bangladesh has achieved a lot in terms of poverty reduction, child mortality reduction, infant mortality reduction, gender parity in primary and secondary education, and meeting certain other targets under different MDGs. Indeed this was due to the rural economic florishment and enterprise development. However, still in terms of numbers of people, poverty afflicts about 36 million and extreme poverty over 18 million. In terms of multidimensional poverty. Multidimensionality has to do with various aspects of human living and, hence, of poverty such as income, education, health services, housing condition, access to drinking water, access to electricity, access to skill training, and access to employment. Also malnutrition and under-nutrition are widespread and so is unemployment among the youth in particular, especially among the educated youth. Human capability development through education, skill training, and health services, particularly among the people at large, remains a major challenge.The Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) is helping address these and other challenges faced by people at large and consolidate the gains and further accelerate poverty reduction, leading to sustained beyond-poverty development, particularly through a programme initiated in 2010: ‘Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of the Poor Households Towards Elimination of their Poverty’ (ENRICH). (ENRICH) is a human-centered holistic development approach. The overall vision that underpins ENRICH is to work with the poor to create a dignified human living standard and to enjoy universal human rights. It is not just a collection of individual projects rather an integrated approach to eliminate poverty ENRICH programme targets poor families, working with them to enhance and maximize the utilization of their resources and skills simultaneously by targeting other crucial aspects of human life including health, education, youth and other development to achieve the sustainable development that is driven by the people themselves.
The Overall Goal:
To ensure human dignity and freedom by gradually reducing poverty in a sustainable manner towards total elimination of poverty and sustainable development at the household level.
The Specific objectives
- Toattain total development of each household as well as the whole community participating in ENRICH
- To empower the poor households through capacity building to ensure human dignity for all
- To facilitate the best utilization of the existing capabilities and resources of the poor households to enable them to come out of the poverty and move ahead to a dignified life.
Major Activities of the year
|
Name of the activity |
Sub Activity |
Number/Event/Piece |
Beneficiary Reach |
|
Health Program |
Static clinic |
588 |
6111 |
|
Satellites clinic |
28 |
906 |
|
|
Eye camp |
1 |
392 |
|
|
Diabetics examine |
1997 |
1997 |
|
|
Free Medicine (Iron, Calcium) |
50300 |
50300 |
|
|
PUSHTIKONA |
4674 |
4674 |
|
|
Education Programme |
Afternoon Education Centers |
54 |
1334 |
|
Enrich Ward Committees Enrich Centre |
Ward and Union Committees |
10 |
99 |
|
Word Committee Meeting |
27 |
|
|
|
Union Committee Meeting |
3 |
|
|
|
Enrich House Vermi-compost Program |
ENRICH House |
80 |
80 |
|
|
Vermi Compost Plant |
78 |
78 |
|
Youth Development Programme |
Youth Committee and committee meetings |
12 |
198 |
|
Beggar Rehabilitation Programme |
Beggar Rehabilitation |
12 |
12 |
|
Special Savings Programme |
Savings |
137 |
Own savings- BDT 3594929 Contribution- BDT 3443510 |
|
Special Financial Assistance Programme |
IGA Loan |
|
7697 BDT- 170625000 |
|
LIL Loan |
73 BDT- 1934000 |
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|
ACL Loan |
742 BDT- 2116000 |