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

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) is a part of social commitment of the organization to its beneficiaries in the working area Bishnandi Union of Araihazar Upazila under Narayanganj districts which offers various services relating to the socio-economic development of beneficiaries by providing health and 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. By working with the households in association with the local government with other committed services providers, the ENRICH catalyses the households' efforts to left themselves out of poverty. The overall goal of the ENRICH is to ensure human dignity and freedom by gradually reducing poverty in a sustainable manner, towards total elimination of poverty and beyond poverty sustainable development at the household level in the unions under the program. Specifically, A key objective is to unlock the latent potentials of the poor and to encourage and assist them in improving their socio-economic status. The Specific objectives of the ENRICH are to- (1) Attain total development of each household as well as the whole community participating in ENRICH; (2) Ensure freedom from all un-freedom's and human dignity for all members of all households under ENRICH; (3) Empower the poor households so that they can pursue a pathway that would lead them towards the goal of human freedom and dignity; (4) Ensure access of all participants in ENRICH to all capacity enhancing activities such as education, skill training and health services; essential institutional facilities: appropriate financing.