PROFILE OF
Associate Social Improvement Foundation (ASIF)
Polioce Line
Road, Kumarkhali, Pirojpur, Bangladesh.
Mobile: 01770-494849
Profile of ASIF
Introduction:
Associate Social Improvement Foundation (ASIF) is a
local women initiated, women led, women managed and women, orphan, old women,
disables and child development NGO. It was established in 1997 with the
initiation of a group of educated like minded social workers of Pirojpur
District under the leadership Md. Nijamaul Huq a well known woman Social worker
with long experience in social work, with an aim to promote the socio-economic
and cultural status of the rural and urban poor and vulnerable people,
emphasising the women, disables, old women, orphans and children through
conscientization, capacity building, institution building, capital formation,
and imparting felt-need based problem solving programs by adopting modern
scientific technologies. ASIF believes in non-directive, bottom up,
participatory and integrated development frameworks and acts as a catalyst with
its beneficiaries.
1.
Name
of the Organisation: Associate Social
Improvement Foundation (ASIF)
Policeline
Road, Kumarkhali
Post office : Pirojpur-8500
Upazila :
Pirojpur Sadar, Dist: Pirojpur, Bangladesh.
Mobile: 01770-494849 E-mail:ngoasif@gmail.com
2.
Head of Organization: Md.
Nijamul Huq
Founder
& Chairman
Mobile:
01770-494849
E-mail: founder.asifngo@gmail.com
3. Year
of Establishment: 03-06-1997
4. Registration
(s) with Government:
Sl.No.
|
Name of Registration Authority
|
Registration No.
|
Date.
|
01.
|
NGO Affairs Bureau
|
FD No- 2971/2015
|
28-09-2015
|
02.
|
Department of Social Services
|
DSS No- Piroj-335/2000
|
25.09-2000
|
5. Membership/Partnership:
Name of Organisation.
|
Year
|
Remarks
|
|
Membership
|
Partnership
|
||
Nari Uddog Kendra (NUK)
|
Do.
|
Full member
|
|
DOORBAR
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB)
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
Bangladesh Manob Adhikar Samannya Parishad.
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
|
Bangladesh Shishu Adhiker Forum (BSAF)
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
BLAST
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
District and Upazilla NGO Forum
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
|
Bangladesh Fund Raising Group (BFRG)
|
Do.
|
Do.
|
|
6. Working
Areas:
ASIF
has been covered 7 slums and 140 villages of 15 Unions of Pirojpur Sadar,
Zianagar and Nazirpur Upazillas of Pirojpur District, which is situated at the
stream south of the country and adjacent to the Bay of Bengal, a coastal area, which
310 km from Dhaka Capital City, a coastal remote, hardship communicated,
underprivileged and under served area, where live the poorest of the poor
people, who are deprived of the basic rights and basic needs..
7. Bank
Account Operation:
The mother
Bank Account of the organisation is operated by the joint signatures of the
Chairperson, Secretary and the Treasurer of the organisation with the help of
approved EC meeting resolution and the approved money is transferred to the
project accounts as per the approved budget. The project accounts are operated
by the joint signatures of the Chairperson, Accountant and the
Coordinator.
8.
Human Resources:
Type.
|
Male
|
Female
|
Total
|
Management
staff
|
03
|
04
|
07
|
Regular.
|
06
|
15
|
21
|
Volunteer.
|
10
|
16
|
26
|
Total:
|
19
|
35
|
54
|
9.
Vision:
Established
and empowered poor and vulnerable rural and urban people, emphasising the women,
girls, disables, children and orphan children in the society.
10.
Mission
Statement:
To
establish the poor and vulnerable people, emphasising the women, girls, disables,
children, old women and orphan children in the society through making them
aware, sheltering, providing basic needs, capable, self-reliant, and
self-initiators through building capacity, institutions, capital, utilization
of local resources and imparting felt-need based problem solving programs
involving necessary skilled, trained, experienced and qualified personnel.
11.
Approach and strategy:
ASIF
emphasises on bottom up, participatory and integrated development framework basing
target group development approach but it also implement activities following
community-based approaches in special cases. It mainly emphasis the fullest
participation of the people in every development effort and initiatives and
also joint venture project for the people’s development.
12.
Objectives:
a)
To arrange
basic needs for the poor and helpless old aged people.
b)
To arrange
basic needs for the helpless orphan children.
c)
To build
capacity of the poor organised members, especially the women,
disables, children, old women and orphan children,
d)
To promote
education rate among the illiterate members,
e)
To build self
and group capital through weekly savings,
f)
To create
employment and Income earning opportunities,
g)
To build
people's Institutions and greater solidarity and unity,
h)
To promote
gender relation among male and female,
i)
To promote
environment,
j)
To develop
future citizen,
k)
To promote
agriculture and agricultural products.
l)
To promote
livestock production.
m) To promote fisheries production.
n)
Disability development.
o)
Anti-drug and
anti-social activity promotion,
p)
Integration of
the poor people in the main stream of national development,
q)
Involvement of
women into economic and productive activities,
r)
Conduct
disaster preparedness and management activities etc.
s)
Conduct relief
and rehabilitation activities.
13. Aspirations:
It aspires for
a society free from exploitation, deprivation, oppression, malnutrition,
domination, starvation, where every individual will be able to get equal and
rightful shares of the resources, human rights, social rights, social security,
where justice, human dignity, democratic value will be honoured and every
individual will be able to live in peace, justice and harmony.
14.
Working Areas:
District.
|
Upazilla
|
Name of the on going Activities.
|
Pirojpur
|
Pirojpur Sadar
Zianagar
Nazirpur
|
n Motivation and group formation.
n Group formation and savings accumulation.
n Small income generating activities.
n Capacity building training, seminar and workshops.
n Gender relation development
n Primary Health & Nutrition Education.
n Child and adult education.
n Child Rehabilitation.
n Old home services for helpless old aged people.
n Disabled development.
n Adolescents’ development program.
n Rural handicrafts activities for women.
n Afforestation & environment development.
n Training, seminar and workshop.
n Professional skills development training.
n HIV/AIDS prevention awareness raising.
n Trafficking & violence against women prevention.
n Disaster Preparedness and Management.
n Adolescent girls’ rehabilitation.
|
15. Work
Experience:
a)
Conscientization:
Conscientization is the most and important program of
the organisation. It begins from the start and continues continuously for
raising mass awareness in all respects among the targeted people and the
community people. So, far it has been conscientize approximately 245,000 people
in different respects. Now the community people of ASIF’s working areas are
fairly conscious in all respects and they can understand their development
should be done themselves. In this regards, ASIF arranges personal contacts,
door step visits, group meetings, gatherings, seminars, workshops, folk songs,
popular theatres, circulate posters, leaflets, stickers, charts, billboards,
sign boards etc. for easy realization and understanding from practical learning
and also the community people can see, read and learn from those displays and
functions..
b)
Motivation
and Institution building:
The organisation first selects the working areas,
conducts base line surveys and identify the targeted beneficiaries. After identification,
motivate and educate the targeted people on the goal and objectives of the
organisation and activities. When the beneficiaries realises that they should
be organised, then the staff members organise them into small savings groups
and conduct weekly meetings and collect weekly savings to build capital of the
poor beneficiaries. So far approximately 3250 targeted people have been
organised into approximately 161 savings groups and their accumulated savings
size is Tk.19,50,000/-, which is being revolved for undertaking income
generating activities by the group members.
c)
Education:
Education is the first and for most component of ASIF’s
development interventions. So, it makes aware the women and makes literate. In
these respects, it runs children education and adult education activities in
the project areas. So far it has been made literate and socially aware 2650
adult women and 790 children and also developed school going habit.
d)
Health/Hygiene.
Health and Hygiene is a on going program of the
organisation, which was started in 2000 and all the field are covered with this
program, because, through weekly group meetings all the community people and
the group members are made aware on health and hygiene.
e) HIV/AIDS/STD Prevention:
At present time HIV/AIDS/STD
has become a very alarming issue in Bangladesh, especially in the
boarder areas of India,
because, HIV/AIDS is transmitting from India in Bangladesh. So, the organisation
has been educating and motivating the rural and urban people and urban people
about HIV/AIDS/STD. Already the
people of the working areas have become aware about the seriousness of the
diseases, so, they are trying to practice HIV/AIDS/STD
education. In this regard, posturing and wide circulation have been conducted
in the working areas. The staffs continuously educating and motivating the
people on HIV/AIDS/ STD diseases.
f)
Training.
ASIF emphasis on different kinds of training to the
group members for their skills development and potentials upgrading and started
from 2000. It is a continuous process. So far 2250 group members and 39 staffs
and volunteers have been provided different kinds of training with the support
of the above donors.
g) Occupational Skill Development Training:
The
organisation arranges occupational skills development training for the
destitute women and the adolescent girls from 2000 and so far 3180 destitute
women and 540 adolescent girls have been provided skills development training
courses on Tailoring and Embroidery. Most of them have been involved in
tailoring and embroidery activities.
h)
Awareness
Raising.
Awareness raising is a very important support for all
the programs and also group formation, because, still the poor women of the
north are not well aware, as modern light of the civilization has not reached
among them. ASIF has been made socially aware approximately 245,000 people in
its working areas. The above mentioned different donors support this program.
i)
Women
Torturing prevention and WID/Gender.
ASIF has no separate program on WID but it mainly
emphasises on women development. So, about 95% of its beneficiaries are women,
disables, children and aborigines. All the programs of the organisation are
planned, implement and manage by the women beneficiaries. It always emphasises
on gender sensitivity in all its programs, so, in every case, gender response
is given highest priority and try to make gender balance. At present in maximum
cases and steps, gender balance has been maintained. It is cite able here that
about 90% program are implemented for the women. These programs are supported
by the above mentioned donors. It has been working on prevention of women
torturing and oppression.
j)
Environment
Development and Social Afforestation:
ASIF has especial program on environment development. So, it
has been implementing nursery development, homestead plantation, community
plantation, awareness raising, reducing chemical use, fertiliser use,
developing composts, regenerative agriculture, reducing plastic use etc.
activities with the support of different above mentioned donors. So far it has
planted 7,400 saplings, 5000 homestead gardens, and developed 21 nurseries from
where plants are supplied to the community people.
k)
Homestead Gardening:
Every
house has some space, which are fallen vacant and fallow. So, ASIF has taken
step to utilise those fallow homestead spaces. The group members have been
motivated and encouraged to utilise those fallow homesteads for vegetable
gardening. In this regard, most the women members have been provided necessary
training and other supports. So far 500 women were provided supports like
training, seeds, seedlings, capital etc. and they have established 70 homestead
gardens with vegetable. Other women have encouraged and established homestead
gardens.
l)
Adolescent
development program:
ASIF
has been working for the poor adolescent girls of the working areas for their
life development since its inception. Already a good number of adolescent girls
have become aware and skilled about their lives. The program has become
accepted highly and need is increasing. Due to limitation it cannot increase
the program. So, we need supports from
all concerns.
m) Disability
development:
The
staff members have been working on disability development with the support of
CDD and supported 65 disable children and people. Already it has developed one
CHDRP and 1 Social Communicator with the help of CDD, who have been working
with the identified disable children and people of the areas.
n) Handicrafts and Cottage Industries Activities:
a) Jute
shoping bags, money bags, mobile bags, water pots, bucket, Paposh, Vanity bags,
wall mats etc.
b) Nankshi
Kantha,
c) Bed
Sheet,
d) Jute
shoes.
e) Bamboo
and cane works,
f) Hoglapatha
mat making,
g) Stitching
sharees.
h) Tailoring
and sewing,
i) Embroidery,
j) Sack
bag making,
k) Wall
mat making,
l) Cushion,
pillow and bed cover making,
m)Dress
making,
n) Sales
centre for production of handicrafts and tailoring.
16. Organisational
Set-up/Management:
An
Executive Committee (EC) consisting of 7 (seven) members that includes 1 chairperson,
1 vice-chairperson, 1 general secretary, 1 asstt. secretary, 1 Treasurer, and 2
Executive Members, who are elected by 28 General Committee for a period of two
years. The EC works as the supreme policy making body and controls the
management of the Society. The Executive Director works as the general
secretary and responsible for overall management of the organization. ASIF
possesses limited number but potential staffs of both social and technical
background that possess excellent expertise and long experience in rights based
programs. They are skilled in program management, networking and partnership
dealings with different stakeholders including Local NGOs and govt.
departments, donor agencies etc. The staffs have also adequate knowledge and
experience in conducting social and technical researches. ASIF has now partner
NGOs who are well equipped in implementing various programs efficiently
integration with other programs.
List
of Executive Committee:
SL
|
Name
|
Designation
|
Address
|
Occupation
|
01.
|
Md. Nijamul Huq
|
Chairperson
|
Kumarkhali,
Pirojpur
|
Social worker
|
02.
|
Md. Abdul Mannan
|
Vice-chairman
|
Utter Namajpur, Pirojpur
|
Law year
|
03.
|
Md. Anower Hossain
|
Executive Director
|
Cord chadpur, Jeenaidaha
|
Social Worker
|
04.
|
Md. Faruk Shekh
|
Asst. Secretary
|
Machimpur, Pirojpur
|
Social Worker
|
05.
|
Md. Khaleq
Mollah
|
Treasurer
|
Chitholia, Parerhat, Pirojpur
|
Social Worker
|
06.
|
Sree Amullah
Paul
|
Member
|
Fatepur, Mirzapur, Tangail
|
Social Worker
|
07.
|
Md. Shahidur
Islam
|
Member
|
Machimpur, Pirojpur
|
Social Worker
|
17. Organ gram of ASIF
18. Facilities:
a) In house:
i) Building/Room:
n One
full-fledge Central Training Centre at Central Office with training hall,
resource/material room, trainers room, lodging facilities of 30 trainees,
cooking facilities and dinning facilities.
ii) Equipment:
a) TV and VCP 1 no.
b) White Board. 2 nos.
c) Black Board. 2 nos.
d) VIPP Board. 2 nos.
e) Camera. 1
no.
f) Every centre contains sufficient
furniture and fixtures.
b) Transport:
a)
Bicycle 2 nos.
c) Resources:
a)
Table. 3 nos.
b)
Chair. 7 nos.
c)
Almirah. 1 no.
d)
File Cabinet. 1 no.
e)
Fan. 2 nos.
f)
Revolving Credit fund. 4,00,000
d) Group information:
a)
Number of groups. 161 nos.
b)
Number of members. 3250
c)
Savings size. 1950,000.
d)
Present
donors:
a)
Department of Women Affairs.
b)
Department of Social Welfare.
c)
Department of Youth Development.
d)
Department of Health and Family
Welfare,
e)
Local Contributions, and
f)
Personnel donations etc.
For
more information, please contact:
Md. Nijamul Huq
Founder & Chairman
Associate Social Improvement Foundation (ASIF)
Policeline Road, Kumarkhali, Pirojpur, Bangladesh.
Mobile: 01770-494849
E-mail: ngoasif@gmail.com;
founder.asifngo@gmail.com
