ENRICH

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ENRICH (Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of Poor Households towards Elimination of their Poverty) Program

ENRICH (Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of Poor Households towards Elimination of their Poverty) Program, being implemented by CEDAR (Concern for Environmental Development And Research) with financial and technical assistance of PKSF is a part of social commitment of the organization to its beneficiaries in the working area Bishnandi Union of Araihazar Upazilla under Narayanganj district which offers various services relating to the socio-economic development of beneficiaries by providing Health & Nutrition, Education, Credit and Savings, Skill Development Training, Rehabilitation, Community development and other development activities. The ENRICH has been uniquely designed to target such issues towards ensuring household-based sustainable development. The ENRICH aims to facilitate the best utilization of the existing capabilities and resources of the poor households and, at the same time, help enhance both their capabilities and resources in order to enable them to come out of poverty and move ahead towards a life of human dignity.

The specific objectives of the ENRICH are to:

• Attain total development of each household as well as the whole community participating in ENRICH;
• Ensure freedom from all `un-freedoms' and human dignity for all members of all households under ENRICH;
• Empower the poor households so that they can pursue a pathway that would lead them towards the goal of human freedom and dignity;
• Ensure access of all participants in ENRICH to all capacity enhancing activities such as education, shill development training, health & nutrition services; essential institutional facilities; appropriate financing for their chosen economic undertakings; necessary market and other information; appropriate technologies; and so on.

CEDAR has started ENRICH program with the financial and technical assistance of PKSF in the year of 2014 in one of the remote union of Araihazar upazilla under Narayanganj district since then it has served 9399 households through 46,780 people. A successful ENRICH program starts with clear objectives to set up permanent institutions by providing Health & Nutrition, Education, Credit and Savings, Skill Development Training, Rehabilitation, Community development and other development activities. The information of ENRICH Program implementing by CEDAR at Bishnandi Union has been given bellow (up to October, 2018):

SL	Name of Activity	Unit	Current Year Target	Current Year Achievement	Total Achievement
01	Sale of Health Card	Qty.	5640	835	5369
02	Static Clinic	Qty.	384	166	1710
03	Patient of Static Clinic	Person	3840	1374	13506
04	Satellite Clinic	Qty.	96	32	379
05	Patient of Satellite Clinic	Person	2400	1205	11530
06	Health Camp	Qty.	4	1	16
07	Patient of Health Camp	Person	600	316	2764
08	Eye Camp	Qty.	1	-	4
09	Patient of Eye Camp	Person	150	-	672
10	Chhani Operation	Person	15	-	71
11	Diabetic Test	Person	-	1200	6767
12	Card yard Meeting	Qty.	720	306	2608
13	ENRICH School	Qty.	45	45	45
14	Learner of ENRICH School	Person	1350	1345	1345
15	Guardian Meeting	Qty.	540	222	714
16	Bondhu Chula	Qty.	-	11	11
17	Solar System Established	Qty.	-	4	4
18	Basok Plantation	Qty.	-	695	695
19	Income Generating Training	Qty.	5	-	8
20	Youth Training	Qty.	-	-	16
21	Formation of Youth Forum	Qty.	-	-	9
22	ENRICH Center Established	Qty.	-	-	9
23	ENRICH Word Meeting	Qty.	54	18	160
24	ENRICH Union Meeting	Qty.	2	1	3
25	Special Savings Creator	Person	5	5	8
26	Total Special Savings	Tk.	30000	12500	83500
27	ENRICH House Established	Qty.	50	5	7
28	Beggar Rehabilitation	Person	2	-	2
29	Pull/Shako/Calvert	Qty.	-	-	3
30	Tubewell Distribution	Qty.	-	-	14
31	Community Latrine Established	Qty.	-	-	12
32	Family wise Latrine Distribution	Qty.	100	-	200
33	IGA Loan Disbursed	Tk.	-	6625000	30434000
34	ACL Disbursed	Tk.	-	1258000	2989000
35	LIL Disbursed	Tk.	-	300000	924000