Women

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The Hunger Project-Bangladesh is dedicated to providing what's missing in the nation's struggle to end hunger and poverty.  In all 64 districts of the country, The Hunger Project is a dynamic, living people's movement, reaching hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis. The message of people's mobilization in THP-Bangladesh has spread through the country in the same way that the message of investment in the end of hunger is passed along through our global constituency.

 

THP-Bangladesh

• The Hunger Project-Bangladesh was born out of the realization that hunger will end only when women and men are mobilized to take action themselves, based on their own vision of a future free from hunger.

• In 1993, under the leadership of Prof. Badiul Majumdar, THP-Bangladesh launched a two-prong strategy:
  (1) mobilizing grassroots people for self-reliant action
  (2) enlisting the support of committed leaders from all sectors of society who can clear away obstacles and link grassroots people to the resources they need to build lives free from hunger.

• The Hunger Project today is Bangladesh's largest volunteer-based organization committed to a hunger-free, self-reliant future.

Scope of THP-Bangladesh

The work of the THP-Bangladesh has unleashed a movement of people around the country, committed to realizing a vision of a hunger-free, self-reliant Bangladesh. Since 1990, The Hunger Project in Bangladesh has brought together an alliance of government officials, leaders of local organizations, journalists, businesspeople, religious and academic leaders and thousands of volunteers, united in this campaign. The Hunger Project has become the largest volunteer-based organization for development in Bangladesh. Volunteers take action in the areas that they define as critical to ending hunger in their communities.

• Hunger Project volunteers have trained thousands of youth to raise fish and poultry. Thousands of families have built irrigation systems that enable them to grow three crops a year, freeing them from poverty. Volunteers have planted 500,000 trees, built 8,000 sanitary latrines and run 120 schools.

• The Hunger Project mobilizes entire villages through special activities like development camps, where THP volunteers go door to door, to ensure that each and every member of the community can participate in creating a new future.

Through Youth Ending Hunger, The Hunger Project mobilizes thousands of young women and men across the country, who carry out campaigns for literacy, health, nutrition and human rights.

Women

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THP Women