Project
Upcoming Project:
Project 1: Strengthening the socio-economic and cultural rights of ethnic women in Bandarban
Project Location: Lama & Ali Kadam
Funded by: AIDA-AECID, Spain
Total Budget: BDT 18,800,000
Project Period: 2012-2013
Total Beneficiaries: 500 families
Purpose of this project is to improve the quality of life of women who suffer multiple types of discriminations, promoting the exercise of their right. This project is under process due to Govt permission. During this period field ground work has completed.
Project 2: Strengthening of Personal Skills for Women who suffered Gender Violence in the Slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Project Location: Mirpur, Dhaka
Funded by: AIDA-AECID, Spain
Total Budget: BDT 1, 63, 77,000
Project Period: Dec 2011-June 2013
Total Beneficiaries: 500 families
Purpose of this project is to strengthen of Personal Skills of 500 Women in Mirpur slum area through various Awareness Raising program, Micro business and Skill development training. This project is also under process.
Running Project
Project 1: Establishing Fair Trade Handicraft Business for Indigenous Community in Bandarban,
Project Location: Rowangchhari Upazila, Bandarban
Funded by: UKAID (SHIREE).
Total Budget: BDT 34,145,002
Project Period: Year 2011-2014
Total Beneficiaries: 750 families
Purpose of this project is to contributing towards sustainable livelihood improvement of the poor and extremely poor households of indigenous community of Bandarban through crafts based skill training, production and marketing of traditional crafts – based on the motto of fair trade handicraft business. In brief of updated development are as follows:
Staff recruitment advertisement, interview & orientation; communication with Headman, UP members an chairman is continuing in the project location, Office rent & set up, Equipment purchases and other preparatory works are going on.
Project 2: Jute: an eco-friendly alternative for a sustainable future
The aim of this project is to promote the economic prosperity and reduce pove
rty in Bangladesh by encouraging a switch to more environmentally sustainable practices, in the Jute industry. In addition, the project would like to promote the sustainable production and consumption of eco-friendly Jute Diversified Products (JDPs) in Bangladesh.
Overall objective: to promote economic prosperity and reduce poverty in Bangladesh and India by encouraging a switch to more environmentally sustainable practices in the jute industry.
Specific objective: to promote the sustainable production and consumption of eco-friendly Jute Diversified Products (JDPs) in Bangladesh and West-Bengal, India.
Project 3: Golden Fibre: Sustainable Livelihoods for Jute Growers and Producers Project:
This is a partnership project funded by UK aid. Duration of this project is June 2010 to March 2014. Faridpur and Gopalganj are two of the poorest districts in Bangladesh but very high quality jutes are produced in these district. However jute growers face a number of problems: unfair prices; lack of quality seeds; lack of technical knowledge; unfavorable market linkages; and low domestic demand. Increasing numbers of poor jute growers are being forced to sell their produce at very low prices (often below the cost of production) to meet their basic needs (distress sales). To fulfill these gaps, Golden Fibre project has been undertaken.
Project 4: TARANGO-AIDA-BNKS Food Security Project:
TARANGO-AIDA-BNKS Food Security project started with the financial support of AIDA, Spain. Duration of this project is 10 Jan 2010 to 10 January 2012. This project will take place in 2 unions under sadar upazila of Bandarban Hill district
namely Bandarban sadar union and Kohalong union in 56 villages.
The objective of this project is to improve the standard of living and livelihood of Indigenous community through Agriculture and agro based business development for food security and to ensure the food security right of the Chittagong Hill Tracts most vulnerable communities, increasing both farmer’s associations and gender equity.
Project 5: Mother and Child Health Care Support Programme
Project Location: Kadambadi, Agoiljhara, Barisal
Financed by: Ms. Ruth Zumbuehl, Switzerland , Ms. Sheenagh Day, Masion Bangle,UK and TARANGO own fund.
Budget (Annually): BDT 203,000
Project Period: Started at 2007
Primary Health Care Support
- Doctors Advise/Prescriptions
- Emergency Health Care support
- Medicine Support
The project is implementing in 11 villages under 2 neighboring Upazila named & Kotalipara are belongs to two different Districts respectively Barisal & Gopalganj. In this reporting period more over 300 patients have been received treatment from project. Most of patients are pragnent and sick mother. Besides that a general and adolescent patients are taking the service from project. To the poor patients, the project provides some medicinal support such as many Calcium, Iron & Vitamin etc, Vitamin, Amodis, Ascabiol, Saline, Napa, Histacin, Ascabiol, Seclo, Renitidine etc.
Health Care Program at Dhaka:
It is a pilot initiative by TAR inspired from Borisal success and started health care program for its women producers and their children at Dhaka office with the personal financial support of Dr, Farzana and Mr. Michel from UK One specialist Doctor with his/her assistance spent whole day in a month to see the patient without taking any fee. TARANGO also distribute 50% free medicine to them according to prescription.
Project 6: Student Support Program
Project Location: Tarango working area
Financed by: Dharma Door, Australia and TARANGO own fund.
Budget (Annually): BDT 105,000
Project Period: Started from 2009
Total Beneficiaries: 20 rural students
From the very beginning, TARANGO has been continuing to support students under its student stipend program funded by Dharma Door, Australia started from February 2009 for the underprivileged high school students of TARANO’s working areas.
Project 7: Women Empowerment through the development of Handicraft
Project Location: Lalmonirhut
Funded by: AIDA, Spain
Total Budget: BDT 700,000
Project Period: March 2011-December 2011
Total Beneficiaries: 250 families
Purpose of this project is to transfer skill and knowledge to self operating system VSLA to deposit their own savings to generate their capital to invest into their own farming and create employment to do something. Besides that the livelihood will be developed by handicrafts production and sale into foreign by TARANGO’s continuous support. Another objective is to open the door to enter into future educated life by entering with pre-primary school.
roject 8: “Improvement Working Condition for Weaver for its Productivities and Quality Improvement”
Project Location: Ghorashin, Karatia, Tangail”.
Financed by: The Broadwall Foundation, England and TARANGO own fund
Budget (Annually): BDT 800,000
Project Period: July to Dec 2011
Total Beneficiaries: 20 weaver families
Progress: Completed
A half wall with grill & tin roof (50ft long and 18 ft wide along with 10ft veranda) training cum weaver’s center had build for weaving production center along with 2 toilets. Rest 2 rooms are using as store cum sitting room and office room.
Another 40 ft long and 10 ft wide kachha(tin shade) room had constructed for dying center with simple water treatment facilities to prevent the soil pollution. Beside that, 1 tube well also placed to ensure pure drinking water. Through this project we also able to arrange electricity & solar light for enough lighting in the production centre. These facilities are giving an opportunity to these weavers to work in a healthy environment. Before that they were working at there home in a congested and unhealthy environment. Now they are working in a group and healthy environment which has increases the weaver’s productivity and improves their products quality which will lead income increment of the weavers and support to livelihood.
TARANGO-AIDA- Women Empowerment Project in Lalmonirhut:
“Economic Empowerment of Women in Socioeconomic Vulnerability Situation in Bangladesh through the Development and Reinforcement of Handicraft and social skills as well as Micro business” project started with the financial support of AIDA, Spain. Duration of the project period was 6 month (26th May- 26th Nov 09). The purpose of this project is to organize and train 800 family members at Lalmonirhut on Micro business development, Handicraft skills and Village Savings & Loan Association-VSLA so that they can have the safe place to save by their own and increase their income and women are empowered. There are two main focuses that this project is addressed: Competency Enhancement and Poverty Eradication. This project aims to address the root causes of these issues in this area, including a lack of income generating activities, training programs and opportunities for women.
Consultancy in Entrepreneurship promotion under Coastal Area Rehabilitation project
This project will training the trainers in entrepreneurship development training on semi and non-literate manual. It will also support the beneficiaries to be trained as well as coaching the trainers. This project will be located in Borguna and Potuakhali.
GREEN JOB PROJECT:
Tarango, in association with Grameen Shakti and financial support of ILO, running this project (Jan- June 2010) to enhance the capacity of solar energy technicians on entrepreneurship. The objectives of the collaboration is to building the capacity of solar energy technician on women entrepreneurship development for increased job opportunity creation and sustainable livelihoods for the disadvantaged groups, specifically women in rural areas.