সোস্যাল এসোসিয়েশন ফর ফান্ডামেন্টাল এমপাওয়ারমেন্ট (সেফ) Social Association for Fundamental Empowerment (SAFE) | |||
Office | Khalil Cmplex, Digarkanda,25no word, Sadar, Mymensingh | ||
Liaison Office | Mirplaza (2nd Floor), 88 C.K Gosh Road, Sadar, Mymensingh | ||
Registered | Name of the Concerned Department | Registration No | Date of Registration |
NGO Affairs Bureau, Bangladesh | 830 | 18.05.1994 | |
Directorate of Social Welfare, Mymensingh | MA-0105 | 09.01.2001 | |
Founder | A KM Fakrul Alam Executive Director | ||
Contact | Email : safemymbc@gmail.com Cell : +88 01711 684104 | ||
Background | Social Association for Fundamental Empowerment (SAFE) is one of the most mentionable Non-governments, Non-profitable and Non-political volunteer social development organization established in 2001 with the initiative of a group of educated social activist with an aim to improve socio-economic status of the underprivileged peoples of the society. It is founded on a set of believes concerning the basic problems of the rural people as well as the country like very high density of population, corruption, lack of transparency, illiteracy, ill health, unemployment, oppression/ civic inertia & environmental hazards, inequality in wealth distribution hampering the overall developments of the country.
Mymensingh region consist of four zillas (Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Netrakona and Sherpur) is the poor districts and flash flood and disaster prone area in Bangladesh. More than half of the population in this region lives below poverty line. They are real backward in terms of all the social and human development indicators i.e. Health, Nutrition, Education, Human Rights and democracy. They are much more leg behind than other district because of flash flood, drought, unemployment, low literacy rate etc. But there are many opportunities over here such as substantial agricultural products, water land, human resources, fish culture so on. SAFE believes that the vast majority of the people of Bangladesh are poor & powerless not for the lack of resources but lack or no access of the poor & powerless to the means of productive resources.
The development philosophy of SAFE is essentially humanist, holistic and people-centered approach that aim to empowering people through develop their potential inherent powers (intellectual, productive, physical & political/organizing) to enable them to take responsibility of their self-reliance and sustainable development. SAFE believes on non-directive, bottom up, integrated and participatory development frame work and acts as a catalyst with its concerned people.
In early 2001, SAFE was registered under NGO Affairs Bureau. From inception to till date, SAFE has gained wide range of working experience in implementing several development programs in association with the various Government Directorate, National and International donor agencies. In the mean time, SAFE has gained membership of various National and International development Networks.
Social Association for Fundamental Empowerment (SAFE) is a non-government, non-profitable and non-political voluntary social development organization established in 2001 with the initiative of a group of educated and energetic social activist with an aim to improve socio-economic status of the underprivileged peoples of the society as well as preserving the healthier environment.
It is founded on a set of believes concerning the basic problems of the rural people like-illiteracy, ill health, unemployment, oppression/ civic inertia & environmental hazards. SAFE believes that peoples have their inherent power to solve their own problems, but they suffer from lack of opportunity, resources & civic rights. The development philosophy of SAFE is essentially humanist, holistic and people-centered approach that aims to empowering people through developing their potential inherent powers (intellectual, productive, physical & political/organizing) to enable them to take responsibility of their self-reliance and sustainable development. SAFE believes on non-directive, bottom up, integrated and participatory development frame work and acts as a catalyst with its concerned people.
From inception to till date, SAFE has been working for the betterment of the socio-economic status as well as for ensuring healthier environment. In the mean time, SAFE has accomplished several projects like Non-formal education, Health-nutrition & Family planning, Agricultural Technology Transfer, Non-Formal Primary Education, Livelihood Training, Life Skills Education, Awareness campaign etc.
As its contribution towards the national development, SAFE was awarded with registration by two distinct Ministry of the Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh namely NGO Affairs Bureau & Directorate of Social Services. | ||
Vision | The vision of SAFE is to building equitable society through sustainable development | ||
Mission | Mission of SAFE is to ensure socio economic development by creating entitlement through skill development, empowering by providing information & service support and safety net for the neglected. | ||
Goal | To promote the socio-economic status of the rural poor and underprivileged people, emphasizing the women, disabled, children, transsexual and also empowering them through undertaking appropriate and sustainable program. | ||
Objectives | As per approved constitution, SAFE sated the following objectives to achieve the goal:
¨ To make the target people self-reliant in all needs and necessities of human life through various efforts and activities. ¨ To improve economic conditions of target people through employment and income generating activities. ¨ To ensure health conditions of target population by providing health and sanitation education and disease treatment services. ¨ To create human and social values in target population through awareness raising education and motivation. ¨ To build up capacity of the target population to identify and analyses different socio-economic issues and problems concerning them and how to solve those. ¨ Creation of employment opportunities through skill development and credit support program for income-generation. ¨ Ensuring Literacy, Continuing Education (CE) for those, who did not have the opportunities to be enrolled, drop outs and peoples with special needs. ¨ Awareness building regarding legal aid, democracy, good governances, health care, sanitation, gender issues, safe sex and HIV AIDs. ¨ Natural disaster management, food security, advocacy, research and technology improvement. ¨ Strengthening local government, monitoring, evaluation, civil society initiatives, community based organization. ¨ Organize local initiatives for production of goods and services for income generation. ¨ Organize cultural activities and sport events. | ||
- Drugs and child marriage
- Women and children’s rights
- Education matters
- Health and hygiene
- Poverty alleviation
- Disability development.
In Mymensingh district, SAFE- Social Association for Fundamental Empowerment is one of the pioneer development partner who has implemented various development projects in collaboration with various GO-NGO as well as National and International donor agencies. SAF has vast working experience of implementing various development projects (including NFE & SDT) in various parts of Mymensingh district. The development projects implemented by SAFE in Mymensingh district are as follows:
Sl. | Name of the Program/ Project | Sources of Fund | Geographical Area | No. of Years |
01 | Reaching Out of School Children- ROSC Project | Directorate of Primary Education-DPE | Ishwarganj Upazilla of Mymensingh District. | 02 Years |
02 | Education Support Program-ESP | BRAC Bangladesh | Sadar Upazilla, Mymensingh District | 03 Years |
03 | Reaching Out of School Children- ROSC Project | Directorate of Primary Education-DPE | Dhobaura Upazilla of Mymensingh District. | 02 Years |
04 | Effect of Botanical Pesticides & Eco-Friendly Management for Producing Quality Rice Seed. | Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology –ICT, GoB | Nalitabari upazilla of Sherpur district and Sadar Upazilla of Mymensingh District | 02 Years |
05 | Maternity Allowance program for the Poor Mother’s | Directorate of Women Affairs | Sadar upazilla of Mymensingh District | 02 Years |
06 | Comprehensive Health, Nutrition & Family Planning Education project -CHNFPE | Ministry of Health and Family Welfare – MOH&FW, GoB | Sadar & Dhobaura upazilla of Mymensingh district | 02 years |
07 | Providing Primary Health Care for Poor and Disadvantaged group | Dewan Communication, Sydney, Australia | Sadar Upazilla of Mymensingh district | 02 years |
08 | Slum Women Literacy and Skills Enhancement Program | Proshika Maobik Unnayan Kendra | Sadar Upazilla of Mymensingh district | 01 Years |
09 | Women Empowerment program through Sewing Training | Bangladesh NGO Foundation | Sadar Upazilla of Mymensingh district | 01 Years |
10 | Access to sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project -WASH | Directorate of Youth Development-DYD, GoB | Sadar Upazilla of Mymensingh District | 0.5 year |
11 | Women empowerment program through Baokul Gardening | Directorate of Social Services-DSS, GoB | Sadar Upazilla of Mymensingh District | 0.5 Year |
Total No. of Years of Experience | 18 Years | |||
Sl. No. | Name | Designation | Occupation | Educational Qualification |
01 | Rokshana Akter | Chairman | Journalist | MSS |
02 | Md. Abdur Rahim | Vice- Chairman | Business | MSc |
03 | AKM Fakrul Alam | Secretary General | Journalist | BA |
04 | Sharafat Ali Shanto | Finance Secretary | Journalist | BBA |
05 | Hazera Begum | Executive Member | Service | BA |
06 | Ashique Chowdhuri | Executive Member | Journalist | BA |
07 | Md. Tajul Islam (Swadhin Chowdhury) | Executive Member | Journalist | MA |
08 | ATM Maniruzzaman | Executive Member | Journalist | MSc |
09 | Badruzzaman Shamim | Executive Member | Journalist | MA |
10 | Farzana Akter Jhumu | Executive Member | Social Service | BA |
11 | Munjirul Hossain | Executive Member | Social Service | BA |
Office | Khalil Cmplex, Digarkanda,25no word, Sadar, Mymensingh |
Liaison Office | Mirplaza (2nd Floor), 88 C.K Gosh Road, Sadar, Mymensingh
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Established | 2001
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Founder | A KM Fakrul Alam Executive Director
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Contact | Email : safemymbc@gmail.com Cell : +88 01711 684104
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Sl. No. | Name | Designation | Occupation | Educational Qualification |
01 | Rokshana Akter | Chairman | Journalist | MSS |
02 | Md. Abdur Rahim | Vice- Chairman | Business | MSc |
03 | AKM Fakrul Alam | Secretary General | Journalist | BA |
04 | Sharafat Ali Shanto | Finance Secretary | Journalist | BBA |
05 | Hazera Begum | Executive Member | Service | BA |
06 | Ashique Chowdhuri | Executive Member | Journalist | BA |
07 | Md. Tajul Islam (Swadhin Chowdhury) | Executive Member | Journalist | MA |
08 | ATM Maniruzzaman | Executive Member | Journalist | MSc |
09 | Badruzzaman Shamim | Executive Member | Journalist | MA |
10 | Farzana Akter Jhumu | Executive Member | Social Service | BA |
11 | Munjirul Hossain | Executive Member | Social Service | BA |
প্রধান কার্যালয় | খলিল কমপ্লেক্স, দিগারকান্দা, আমলীতলা, সদর, ময়মনসিংহ। |
শাখা কার্যালয় | মীরপ্লাজা (৩য় তলা), ৮৮ সিকে ঘোষরোড, সদর, ময়মনসিংহ। |
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খলিল কমপ্লেক্স, দিগারকান্দা, আমলীতলা, সদর, ময়মনসিংহ। |
মীরপ্লাজা (৩য় তলা), ৮৮ সিকে ঘোষরোড, সদর, ময়মনসিংহ। |
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