Bangladesh

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Emergencies and education

In the wake of widespread devastation, Concern led intensive relief operations, distributing food and other essential items to thousands of families. Work also continued on education, health, livelihoods and HIV and AIDS throughout the year.

One of Concern’s highlights was successfully drawing the attention of the national education forum to the need for a flexible school calendar in areas prone to recurrent flooding.

We are people too

Another focus for Concern is the Amrao Manush project. It works with 10,000 of the poorest people in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital city. The goal is to give a voice to the people who live their lives on the streets.

The name of the project was chosen by pavement dwellers themselves. In Bangla, Amrao Manush means, roughly: "We are people too."

The video below focuses on some of the people living on Dhaka's streets. Read a report about Amrao Manush by Herald Scotland. 

More achievements in Bangladesh

Education

• 24,620 children in 75 schools benefited from a new project to improve the quality of and access to education
• Concern trained more than 3,700 teachers and school management committee members
• More than 36,200 people (almost half of them women and adolescent girls) developed new vocational skills and entrepreneurial training

Health

• 1.35 million people were reached through primary healthcare and community-based nutrition projects
• Concern raised awareness of HIV and AIDS transmission and prevention among local charity organisations and communities