Microfinance

Project Objectives

PROSHIKA undertook several social and economic developments programs in order to make the poor self-reliant. To do this PROSHIKA adopted two pronged strategy, namely economic and social empowerment. Due to lack of knowledge and skills, the poor could not approach nor get entry to the government and non-government institutions which are responsible for serving people with different services and assistance. Through building poor peoples’ organizations and imparting social development training, PROSHIKA develops their capacity, so that they can claim their due rights from the government’s service delivery institutions as well as ensuring life security.

Expected Outcomes

Presently, PROSHIKA is working in about 18,784 villages, 2,339 unions/wards, 322 Upazila and 59 districts in the 7 divisions of Bangladesh. Through its various programs, income and employment opportunities have been created for about 52,809 groups among them 42,982 are women and 9,827are men’s group and about 725,879 people (609,955 women and 115,924 men) have been engaged in various development programs. More than 29 lakh family members have been benefited in several ways so far. Apart from this, the Social Forestry and Climate Change Risk Management Program of this organization have planted about 120 million trees for environmental protection. These achievements have been made possible through the implementation of many other social and economic development programs including People’s Organization Building Programs, Financial Services Programs, Health Education, various income generating programs and Integrated Farms, Social security Service Programs and Environmental Protection and Regeneration Programs, etc.

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