 NGO
Forum for Drinking Water Supply & Sanitation
handed over the overhead pipeline project
to a local Management Committee at a ceremony
held at Shimulia St. Louis Primary School
Hall Room on 6 August 2008. The Project
was implemented in Shimulia Mission para
under Godkhali union of Jhikargachha upazila
in Jessore district with a view to providing
arsenic-free safe water to the severely
arsenic affected community people.
Md.
Abu al Hossain, Deputy Commissioner, Jessore
was chief guest at the handing ceremony
while Akhtar Hossain Azad, Upazila Nirbahi
Officer, Jhikargachha was the Special Guest.
Chaired
by Naren Baidya, Parish Priest of Shimulia
Catholic Church, Mizanur Rahman Tota, President,
Jessore Press Club, Fakhre Alam, Staff Reporter,
Dainik Jai Jai Din,  Treasure
of the Managment Committe, Dr. Nazmul Hassan,
Project Manager, ICBAMP-Project, Alfred
Mondol, Treasure of the Pipeline Managment
Committeand and Syed Sultan Chand, Regional
Manager, Jessore Regional Office, NGO Forum
also spoke on the occasion. The
speakers appreciated NGO Forum for motivating
thousands of people of the Project areas
organizing promotional activities like court-yard
meeting for womenfolk, community meeting
with male members, school programme, street
drama, orientation sessions to religious
leaders, school teachers, village doctors
and members of village arsenic mitigation
committees.
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Around
40,000 people of 20 villages are beneficiaries
of this Project. With the financial assistance
from the Japanese Embassy the Project was
initiated in April 2007 and concluded in
March 2008.
Conference on
Climate Change Held
A two day-long Asian Commonwealth Conference
titled ‘Strengthening Role of Civil Society
and Media in Climate Change Adaptation and
Disaster Mitigation in Asia’ from 18-19
August 2008 was held in Pondicherry, India.
All India Disaster Mitigation Institute
organized with the objective to raise regional
awareness and enhance civil society's capacity
along with media for innovative climate
change adaptation and disaster mitigation.
It was a follow-up conference to the earlier
held in April in India.
The
Conference laid focus on the role of civil
society organization and media personnel
in communicating and promoting adaptation
practice at the grassroots level. Participants
from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan,
Maldives alongside the NGO Forum and BSS
from Bangladesh took part in the Conference.
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