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French NGOs in Bangladesh
SEVERAL French NGOs are operating in Bangladesh in various fields such as health, education, sanitation. Among them, Friendship is well established in the country since many years. It all started in 1994, when Yves Marre, a French sailor, sailed a river barge from France to Bangladesh to have it converted into a floating hospital to provide healthcare services to those who had limited or no access to healthcare. With the help of corporate sector funding from Unilever, who believed in Friendship's vision, Friendship were able
to progress and start its work in the remote nomadic islands (chars) of Northern Bangladesh. Today Friendship works in the most remote and vulnerable areas of Bangladesh, including the cyclone affected areas of Southern Bangladesh. Friendship provides now healthcare, hold nutrition and education programmes.
The French NGO Humani Terra has launched a partnership with Friendship in order to guarantee the surgical management by missions for Special Surgery when the other provides primary cares.
orphanages or hospitals. Initially focusing on computer training, the goals of Solinfo are now largely open to other actions.
The natural disasters faced by Bangladesh have
led several NGOs to launch missions here. Action Contre La Faim (ACF) has been present in Bangladesh since August 2007 with an intervention in Shariatpur District to respond to the
floods that blocked an important part of the country for more than six weeks and later on in Barguna District to respond to the Cyclone Sidr. The organization has maintained a
Disaster risk reduction program in Barguna. ACF helps the communities in defining contingency plans in case of disaster and in developing projects to limit
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Several NGOs are working for the achievement of two MDGs related to the well-being of the children. Partenaires started its
branch Street children's Partners in 2001 when Maer Achol Shelter, a day/night shelter, has opened in Mirpur for street and slum children of Dhaka. The
project targets the most vulnerable children, boys and girls, who stay, work, beg or live in the streets. The main goal is to raise the street children's economic condition with enhanced dignity. To reach that goal, the organization works for: the rehabilitation of the kids through medication and hygiene or psychological counselling; their socialization with formal and non formal education; their reinsertion through vocational training and job placement.
The NGO Les Amis des Enfants du Monde, which means “The Friends of the Kids of the World”, supports local initiatives in the service of disadvantaged children who have the willingness to take themselves in charge. Six schools or orphanage, mostly in Chittagong like Don Bosco, supported since 1983, receive a financial help from “Les Amis des Enfants du Monde”.
Aide Medicale et D^veloppement (“Medical Aid and Development”) work in Cox's Bazar with disabled children, whose disability is often due to poor nutrition and rickets. Handicap International is another French NGO which has been working in Bangladesh since 1997 to uplift the living standard, promote full and meaningful participation in development programs and activities, and to establish the rights of persons with disabilities.
The NGO Solinfo, which conducts in particular a project in Maer Achol shelter, supports education projects towards the children in various schools, risks and to support the most vulnerable families (particularly women). ACF in Bangladesh focuses also on under-nutrition reduction with an integrated approach (with nutrition program for the babies but also in reenforcing the health condition of the mothers).
Solidarites brings a humanitarian aid in favour of communities affected by floods and water-logging. The last projects were located in Jalalpur, Kheshra
or Khaliskhali. 1500 targeted households received income through 'Cash for Work' activities in a timely manner to enable them to purchase food or other immediate needs to meet their daily requirements and to reduce food related vulnerabilities. Earth works, plinth raising and road construction were the priority under this activity. Reestablishment of water sources through the provision of tube wells or latrines are also two crucial goals for Solidarites.