Enhancing Self-dependency of the Poor Farmer

About forty percent of the total population of Bangladesh lives under poverty line. Poverty rate is comparatively higher and a large number of the poor lives in south-western region of the country. This high rate of poverty is mainly caused of inadequate opportunity for employment, regular incidence of natural disasters particularly flood & storm, high rate of illiteracy and so on. The PSUS has been working to organize the poor people into group since its inception under the tie of its livelihood development program. The main objectives of the program are to develop organization of the poor, encourage them to make practice of depositing more savings and empower them through involving into different feasible IGAs. The organization has built a partnership with Manusher Jonnyo Foundation (MJF) to implement a project “Establishment and protection or Rights of Vegetable Producing Farmers” for enhancing self-dependency of the poor farmers. Establishing farmer association, providing technical training, arranging farmer fair, workshop, rally, human chain, meeting with UP standing committee and awareness raising events are major activities of the project. In addition, the organization provides skill development training to the participants, create awareness about various social issues and develop leadership quality. It is important to note that all participants of this program are the poor farmers. They employ their achieved skills to the productive activities in order to get the opportunity for improving their capacity for self-dependency.