Developing a safety net for urban marginalized and disadvantaged children
Implementing area: 7 slum areas in Dhaka city and in the outskirts: Dhanmondi, Fotullah, Lalbag, Mohammadpur, Pallabi and Tongi thanas.
Beneficiaries: It will target 6,500 children from the most marginalized and disadvantaged sections of society like Dalit and Bihari communities and children with disabilities and their families
Duration: 36 months (March 2010 to February 2013)
Implementing partners: Aparajeyo Bangladesh and ARBAN
Funded by: European Union and TDH Italia
Asserting Human Rights of Women-in-prostitution's children
Implementing Area: Jamalpur and Jessore
Beneficiaries: around 300 children of sex workers who are usually marginalized and discriminated by the society, do not have access to basic services such education and healthcare facilities
Duration of the current phase: until December 2011
Implementing partners: Jagorani Chakra Foundation and Aparajeyo Bangladesh
Funded by: TDH Italia
Education in Dhaka
Implementing area: 7 slum areas in Dhaka city and in the outskirts: Dhanmondi, Fotullah, Lalbag, Mohammadpur, Pallabi and Tongi thanas
Beneficiaries: 3,000 direct beneficiaries who benefit from nutritional programmes, health care services, vocational training, counseling, pre-primary, primary and support to attend high education. Moreover, through two shelter homes (one for boys and one for girls), the project offers protection to 100 children living on the streets of the capital city.
Duration of the current phase: 36 months (March 2010 to February 2013)
Implementing partners: Aparajeyo Bangladesh and ARBAN
Funded by: TDH Italia
Education in Rural Areas
Implementing area: Kurigram
Beneficiaries: 1,500 children who benefit of pre-primary and primary education as well as healthy and balanced daily meals. Moreover the project provides support with educational material for students who enroll in local high schools and colleges and sensitization to their mothers
Duration of the current phase: 48 months (January 2010 to December 2013)
Implementing partners: Direct implementation by TDH Italia
Funded by: TDH Italia
Promoting safe migration and local development in four districts in Bangladesh
Implementing area: Dhaka city, Dohar, Brahmanbaria Sadar, Gournadi and Noria.
Beneficiaries: 162,000 migrant community members through awareness raising, skills development and institutional capacity building
Duration: 36 months (April 2009 to April 2012)
Implementing partners: Welfare Association for the Rights of Bangladeshi migrants - WARBE Development Foundation
Funded by: European Union and TDH Italia
TRAFFICKED – a project to raise awareness about child trafficking in Bangladesh
Implementing area: Dhaka, Dinajpur, Faridpur, Jamalpur, Jessore, Kurigram, Patuakhali, Pirganj, Saidpur, Shatkhira and Thakurgaon
Beneficiaries: 20,000 local community members. Thanks to an itinerant photographic exhibition of Shehzad Noorani's pictures
Duration: 7 months (from July 2010 to January 2011)
Implementing partners: Expoforum GmbH and TDH Italia
Funded by: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Interventions of reconstruction of a cyclone shelter and rehabilitation of sanitation facilities for the population affected by Cyclone Sidr in Patuakhali district
Implementing Area: Mirzaganj upazila in Patuakhali district
Beneficiaries: 3,200 students and 7,500 local community members
Duration: 12 months (April 2009 to March 2010)
Implementing partners: Direct implementation by TDH Italia
Funded by: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
