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Local Organization working for Disabled People
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Focal Point Organization
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Ministry of Social Welfare (MSW)
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Building No. 06 Bangladesh Secretariat Dhaka, Bangladesh 1000
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The Ministry of Social Welfare (MSW) is the
main government organization that implements programs for the protection,
care, education, training and rehabilitation for persons with disabilities.
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Associate Organization
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Action on Disability and Development (ADD)
Bangladesh |
House 56, Road No. 11, Block-C, Banani, Dhaka 1213
Contact Person: Mr. Mosharraf Hossain, Country
Representative |
Tel: (880-2) 8859330
Fax: (880-2) 9862554
E-mail:
mosharraf@siriusbroadband.com
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addbd@siriusbroadband.com,
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Action on Disability and Development (ADD)
is a right-based development international organization supporting civil
society organization of disabled people to campaign for equal rights and to
ensure social justice. In Bangladesh, started working in 1995, ADD plays an
important role to strengthen disability movement, to pass the Disability Law
in the Parliament and to establish the social rights of the disabled persons
through organizing disabled people in the grassroots level, supporting
disabled people organization and encouraging mainstream NGOs to work with
disabled people.
"ADD supports 52 organizations of disabled people in 200
villages of 23 districts in Bangladesh." |
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Bangladesh Organization for Disabled
Advancement (BODA)
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163-164, Janata Housing, Section-1, Mirpur, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh
Contact Person: M. Khalilur Rahman,
Executive Director |
Tel: (880-2) 8054832, 8058725
Fax: (880-2) 8010667
E-mail:
boda@bdonline.com |
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The Bangladesh Organization for Disabled
Advancement (BODA) is an organization dedicated to the disabled people of
Bangladesh. The disabled face several obstacles in society including job
discrimination, illiteracy, and poor medical care. BODA has been helping the
disable to overcome discrimination and prejudice in the hope of living a
more peaceful lifestyle. |
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Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Somity (BPKS),Welfare
association of the persons with disabilities of Bangladesh
www.bpksbd.org
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BPKS Complex, Dhakkhinkhan, (North side of Dhakkhinkhan Bazar), Uttara,
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Contact Person: Abdus Sattar Dulal, Founder
& Executive Director |
Tel: (880-2) 8923915, 8960077
Fax: (880-2) 8960078
E-mail:
bpks@citechco.net,
bpkspd@agni.com,
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Established in 1985, Bangladesh Protibandhi
Kallyan Somity/BPKS is a non-governmental, voluntary organization of persons
with disabilities in Bangladesh as well as the country's only non-profit
cross-disability self-help organization. BPKS works to ensure equality in
all occupations of persons with disabilities through attaining their equal
rights, opportunities and full participation in national building
activities, enabling persons with disabilities to live independently with
dignity in a barrier-free society and be equally contributive to her/his own
and society’s development. Program activities include: home based therapy
and counseling, medical referral services, eye camps, educational support,
lobbying and advocacy, skills training leading to job placement, community
awareness raising, intellectual capacity building training including
training in centre and accounts management and program accelerating and also
assistive device support. BPKS is also developing 16 types of training
programs over three years, including education support, medical support,
awareness campaigns, job placement, self-esteem building, and home based
therapy. |
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Center for Services and Information on
Disability (CSID)
www.csidnetwork.org |
House #175, Road #10, Baitul Aman Housing Society, Adabor, Shyamoli, Dhaka
1207
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Registered as a charity trust under the
Ministry of Law on 24 December 1997, Center for Services, Research and
Information Exchange is involved in providing support services to the
development organizations and the communities with a view to facilitate
activities directed towards upliftment of people with disabilities' lives in
the country. |
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HICARE (Society for Education and Care of
Hearing Impaired Children of Bangladesh)
www.hicarebd.org
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House #69/F, Road #6/A Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka 1209
Contact Person: Mr. M.A. Rashid, Executive
Secretary |
Tel: (880-2) 9119535, 8111650
Fax: (880-2) 9119535, 8111650
E-mail:
hicare@dhaka.net |
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HICARE is a society to establish a
consultancy service for the education and care of hearing impaired children
and to offer their families guidance and supports as well as instruction to
motivate their children to learn speech and language. Currently, ADD support
52 organizations of disabled people in 2000 villages of 23 districts in
Bangladesh. |
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Impact Foundation Bangladesh
www.impactfoundationbd.org |
House #19, Apt. #D1, Road #9, Gulshan Circle-1, Dhaka 1212
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Impact Foundation Bangladesh is one of the
leading NGOs operating in the field of disability with the mandate to change
people's lives through prevention and reduction of the causes of disability
and thereby help reduce poverty through sustainable efforts at the community
and national levels in Bangladesh. |
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National Federation of the Blind
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6 Orphanage Road, Dhaka 1211
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National Federation of the Blind was formed
in 1964 aiming to help achieve self-reliance and sustainability of the
underprivileged blind people and establish their fundamental human rights;
solving the multifarious problems for the blind in the society and promoting
the socio-economic condition of the landless, poor destitute and the
oppressed multitude, through mobilization and utilization of the local and
other available resources. Now NFB is only the main platform of the whole
blind community in this country. |
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Society for the Welfare of the Intellectually
Disabled (SWID-Bangladesh)
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4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka 1000
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The Society for the Welfare of the
Intellectually Disabled (SWID) is a non-government, voluntary, social
service organization working for the cause of the intellectually disabled.
Established in December 1977 with the involvement of professional, parents,
and social workers, it currently operates 39 special schools/units for the
special education, vocational training, rehabilitation and other programs
for more than 4,000 intellectually disabled students. |
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