ADVOCACY ON DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL AID SUPPORT of Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation 1996

Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation also organized several advocacy campaigns and community sharing meetings to address the theme “No More Dowry”. We developed some BCC materials to make the mass people conscious concerning the ill effects of the prevailing dowry culture. We also distributed BCC materials among the members of associate organizations. Besides that organizations of similar interest and activities are availing our BCC materials for their relevant programs.

PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES of Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation 1996

Promotional activities are carried out for awareness building and motivating the community people towards changing their behavioral attitude regarding health, nutrition, WatSan, personal hygiene practices etc. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation implements the promotional activities at the community level with the aid of IEC/BCC activities and materials.

A notable number of promotional activities are facilitated for the target beneficiaries and community people. The activities include production of IEC/BCC materials (printed materials, audio-video materials, etc.), conducting courtyard meetings, counseling, organizing rallies along with mike announcing, displaying film shows and animated cartoons, folk songs containing message, small and large group discussion meetings, seminars, workshops, meetings at different forums, doorstep visits etc.

To activate all the development programs, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation has a well-equipped communication material development cell coupled with a team of skilled personnel.

Adding to these, to make aware and motivate the people, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation has been developing and using communication materials on dowry, acid crime and HIV/AIDS which have been pasted throughout the year on the back of the rickshaws containing different messages and pictures about the dreadfulness of HIV/AIDS and dowry. In fact, we always encourage people to leave smoking by anti-smoking campaign and create mass awareness through anti-trafficking campaign.

TECHNICAL SERVICES FOR POOREST of Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation

Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation has a strong inclination towards serving the hard-to-reach rural poor. With this intention, the organization has already started implementing an experimental project titled "Financial Services for the Poorest" at a village in Manikgonj district. The broad objective of the project is to make further contribution to overall poverty alleviation. The poor who do not have land or house of their own and who have to live from hand to mouth and are far away from getting any credit support are covered under the initiative.

Our organization undertakes various income-generating activities to assist the extreme poor. Moreover, we provide them with motivation skill development training so that they can become self-employed. These activities include cottage industry based on indigenous materials (e.g. bamboo or bamboo cane, hogla, cane, mat etc.), livestock and poultry rearing, tailoring, nursery business, small shops to sell retail products and other feasible activities.

INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING THROUGH TRAINING PROGRAM of Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation 1996

Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation believes in people’s participation in the development process. Training becomes one of the key components of the development activities of Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation. It has been proven that the potentiality, knowledge, attitude and practice of people lag behind because of the absence of enlightened and trained people. Training adds perfection to any intervention. It is an essential input to bring a positive change for sustainable development. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation is developing a cluster of capable and skilled people at the grassroots level.

Realizing the training needs, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation has been actively upgrading its training process as an important tool for building institutions. We conduct specific on-the-job and skill-oriented training courses to develop a skilled workforce both at the staff and the beneficiaries’ level. By the end of 2007, we conducted about 20 HIV/AIDS awareness trainings in deferent levels of the community: commercial sex workers, youth, rickshaw-pullers, labor-women, and street-children. We also organized and conducted other social awareness/social development trainings for our target groups.

Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation has been organizing different training courses within its own capacity by giving due importance to the needs of staff as well as its group members. Training courses are planned, designed implemented and evaluated as per the needs and priorities. During the training courses, knowledge and skills are conveyed to the trainees as they go through teaching and learning exercises in the classroom and practical experience in the filed as well. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation appreciates the process of sharing and mutual learning through participatory approach in conducting courses. Relevant training methods are carefully selected on the basis of the level of the participants’ education, knowledge and skills.

WATER AND SANITATION PROGRAM of Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation 1996

As our main mission is to create a society free from all devastation, diseases etc we give emphasis on water and sanitation, as it is the main basis of getting ride off all diseases. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation has been incorporating WatSan activities exclusively with the assistance form integrated software and hardware support services from the Qatar Charity under its collaboration activities. We have been setup deep tubule in costrel region Agalzara, Barishal. In this activity we start from 2008 with financial support by Qatar Charity. Under this program we aware the people about arsenic and it’s effect, importance of drinking safe water and the bad effect of drinking impure water. Wastewater management, Ecological sanitation (ECOSAN) is also part of this program.

We have achieved a sound experience in rehabilitation activities, particularly in WatSan activities. After any devastating cyclone in coastal belts, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation runs its rehabilitation activities, which included relief distribution, ensuring safe water & environmental sanitation, repairing and resetting the damaged tube wells, dewatering ponds as well as producing water-seal ring-slab latrines from its own fund.

Furthermore, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation performed arsenic test on a good number of hand tube-wells with its own efforts and funds. The tube-wells with arsenic contamination were marked red while the arsenic free tube-wells were marked green. We also spread awareness among the people using communication materials on usage of safe water, personal hygiene practice, disposal of solid waste and dangers of arsenic and arsenic mitigation options.

ADOLESCENT GIRLS PROGRAM of Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation 1996

In Bangladesh particularly in rural and urban slum area adolescent girls are the most deprived group of all. They are deprived of education, human rights, family and legal security. They are neglected and sometimes ostracized, despite being productive members of society with great future potential. During adolescence girls become a social burden of their parents even while they accomplish many manual responsibilities in poor families. To add some additional earnings for the family, adolescent girls work as maidservants where they are poorly paid and bitterly treated.

After their marriage, the adolescents bad and un-livable life fraught with torture, desertion and divorce. Due to dowry system and having no literacy and knowledge of legal rights, the yield to the cruelties of their husband’s family in the most cases. Thus their wedlock becomes a dead lock by napping their lives in the bud. Being fully aware of the problems. Rainbow has taken up the initiative for the well being of poor adolescent girls through launching a adolescents advancement program of adolescent girls training’s where life based education is a vital component.

The purpose of this training is to make the adolescent girls aware of social exploitation, reproductive health, gender awareness, STDs/STI, HIV/AIDS, legal rights, concepts of family development, hygienic sanitation, arsenic pollution, clean water, leadership development, health, nutrition, mother care before and after pregnancy, family planning, concept of marriage, early marriage and its demerits, importance of marriage registration, divorce and ways and means to check divorce, the persecution of women and law against it, child abuse, concept of family court. Role of adolescent girls in the family their participation in development activities. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation has been running adolescent girls development program since 1996.

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROGRAM of Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation 1996

The reproductive health field is attempting to more adequately address the conditions of the people sexual lives by training health workers and stretching negotiating skills in both women and men. At the community level, efforts of bring about more equitable gender relatives are even more common. Even so, women leaving in areas of evil conflict are at particularly high risk of violence, unintended pregnancy and STIs. The lack of reproductive health awareness and low acceptances of condom use, CSWs represent a highly vulnerable group in Bangladesh. The sharp rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Bangladesh contributes the spread of HIV/AIDS and may lead to a large-scale epidemic as the heterosexual mode of transmission accounts for an increasing percentage of HIV/AIDS transmission.