Install and rehabilitate safe water points (deep tube-wells, pond sand filters, rainwater harvesting), construct hygienic latrines, and deliver hygiene promotion.
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Motivate dropout students to attend and regularize classes, with technical and financial support from the Primary Education Department, and distribution of books and school materials.
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At least 400 disabled men and women received need-based equipment — crutches, wheelchairs, white sticks, hearing aids — for their daily-life betterment
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Running continuously since 2004 with technical and financial support from Welfare Association UAE (Regional Office Dhaka), this multi-component project extends the following services amongst needy people around VEDF's operational areas and abroad.
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Dinajpur district lies in a drought-prone region, causing scarcity of safe drinking water and water for irrigation. VEDF undertook this project with participatory methodology involving local government members, teachers, Imams, journalists, and community leaders. A number of hand tube-wells with pucca/concrete platforms have been established, still providing arsenic-free safe drinking water.
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Several mosques and Ozukhana (ablution facilities) have been newly constructed and repaired to serve the broader interest of the Muslim community in and beyond VEDF's operational areas
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During the holy month of Ramadan, VEDF periodically distributes Iftar food packages to hardcore poor families who cannot afford proper food intake. At Eid-ul-Adha, funding partners also support distribution of Qurbani (sacrificial) meat, enabling poor families to access protein in their daily diet.
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Beyond Ramadan and Eid support, VEDF responds to seasonal hardship and disaster-related humanitarian needs in its operational areas. During severe flooding, flash floods, excessive rainfall, landslides, cyclones, river erosion and similar emergencies, affected families may lose homes, food stocks, clothing and access to safe drinking water. VEDF therefore prioritizes rapid, need-based relief that protects life and dignity while creating a pathway toward recovery and development.
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