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Aloshikha RSDC's work
Aloshikha RSDC's working area is marked by a circle on the map. It is situated in a delta that is storm-swept by floods and tornadoes. The country is characterized by low-lying agricultural fields. The floods submerge these fields for a larger part of the year, enable only one harvest of rice per year. During the floods, life is extra difficult for the population. There are barely any jobs and a disastrous lack of primary needs, such as food.
Aloshikha RSDC's working area
The villages are built on small hills in order to protect them form the water. Every now and again, things get out of hand. The villages are submerged and there are human casualties.We still remember the television footage of such disaster and it reminds us of the flood the Netherlands coped with in 1953. However, the Dutch managed to conquer this danger by building the delta works. Bangladesh still deals with the threat of this catastrophe every year.Aloshikha RSDC has developed programmes in the field of education, health care, rural development and micro credit for the poor population of Rajihar and surrounding area.Over the years, Aloshikha RSDC has expanded its working area from Rajihar to the districts of Barisal, Gopalgonje and Madaripur. Currently, about 200.000 people live in Aloshikha's working area. The annual flood make it difficult for Aloshikha RSDC to carry out its work.
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Education
Approximately 70% of the Bangladeshi people are illiterate. In order to deal with this problem, Aloshikha has opened 40 pre-schools and 10 elementary schools. Children from the ages 10 to 12 are educated at these schools.Besides educating children, Aloshikha spends a lot of effort educating adults. Traditional healers, traditional midwives and adolescents are taught various skills during workshops and training programmes.
Pre-school
Health care
Health care is a scarce commodity in Aloshikha RSDC's working area. In order to be able to offer the locals any care at all, Aloshikha RSDC founded the Maria Mother & Child health Care Clinic in 1996. Most of the patients are women and children. The clinic is crucial to the local population. A correct diagnosis, proper treatment and adequate care seems very natural to us, but to the people of Bangladesh, they are unaffordable luxuries.Aloshikha RSDC spends a lot of energy on hygiene and the fight against diseases like diarrhoea and hepatitis. An important aspect here is building latrines. At the moment, over 1,200 latrines are built. In order to provide the locals with clean drinking water, Aloshikha RSDC has started the so-called deep-tube well project. From now on, wells are sunk at a depth of 300 meters in order to reach water that has not been contaminated with arsenic.
Maria Mother & Child Health Care Clinic
Rural development
Aloshikha RSDC wishes to stimulate the local population to become self-supporting. Therefore, Aloshikha RSDC has set up various initiatives in the field of rural development. In a training centre, adults are educated in how to set up a small chicken farm, how to rear cattle, cultivate fish, maintain a vegetable garden or grow rice.
Cattle programme
Micro credit
After finishing the training programme, individuals or small groups can acquire a small loan (micro credit), with which they can set up their own small business. The produce is sold at local markets. Other activities, such as running a shop, a tailor's shop, a rickshaw or hiring out irrigation pumps, also receive a lot of attention within the micro credit programme. The loan may be paid off with the profits made, and the rest can be used for keeping oneself.The loans granted within the micro credit programme vary from €40 to €200. This can help increase the living standards of a large group of people considerably.
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