Wel come To :Foundation for Human Development (FHD).

FHD again signed an agreement with the World Food Program (WFP) for similar project covering 2400 (Two thousand four hundred) ultra-poor women. FHD successfully completed the project and the phase -out groups are in the process for inclusion under regular program of FHD. It is to be noted that these people are often bypassed by the conventional NGO interventions and they are at the threshold enterprise group. Prior to joining WFP-FHD project, they had been in the survival group. Pulling the huge number of ultra-poor persons from survival group to enterprise group, it was really a great challenge for FHD. And FHD is hopeful that it would be able to face the challenge in cooperation with donor community. Under phase-II, FHD opened up 14 literacy centers in metropolitan city of Chittagong aimed at pulling out the children engaged in the worst form of hazardous occupations. The collaboration with the local government institutions has been further strengthened as coverage of disposal of household garbage by FHD is on the rise. This is a unique example of collaboration between the NGO and the Dhaka City Corporation. Using the comparative advantage of the two entities, the household garbage operation is going on well and the scope of healthy atmosphere has been opened. The people of the Capital city now have been saved from the nasty atmosphere here and there. Although the government of Bangladesh achieved one of the Millennium Development Goal i.e. Universal primary educations, still there are pockets where children do not have access to primary education. Under the state-sponsored project of the government of Bangladesh titled "Reaching the Out-of-School School Children" FHD opened up literacy centers for such school-age children in different places of Bogra district. Beginning in the year 2002, the Sanitation and Water Supply project continued in this year increasing the coverage of sanitation significantly. Due to the increase in coverage it is expected that the incidence of water-borne diseases will show decline. The Gender Resource Center was busy round the year for conducting training sessions for FHD project participants, trainees of other organizations.. For capacity building of FHD, qualified staff members have been inducted in the senior management. They have proven track record with the leading NGOs of the country in the areas of program management, research, training and micro-finance. I thank all of our well wishers, dedicated staff members and the project participants, scattered over in different parts of the country for making the year 2008 a success.