Basic Development Partners (BDP)

Contact Person :
Albert Malakar, Executive Director
32/5 Sen Para, Parbata, Mirpur-10, Dhaka-1216
Phone: 02-9009326- 7
E-mail: bdp@bdcom.com

Background
Basic Development Partners (BDP) is a child and women focus National NGO, has been working in the field of Education, Health, Emergency relief and rehabilitation, disaster management & environment particularly focusing on the children and women from poorest families (slum & rural poor last decade. BDP established in 1999 as an independent national NGO was a project under the umbrella of World Concern Bangladesh.

General objectives
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To create opportunities of education for school-aged children who do not have access to primary education and simultaneously, a second chance for the children who have dropped out from the mainstream of education in BDP working area.

-To increase marketable human resources through providing vocational education to children who have either dropped out or having high probabilities of dropping out of the secondary education system.

-To assist underprivileged secondary school aged children of BDP primary school graduate to continue their secondary school.

-To improve child and maternal health and combat Malaria, HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease among BDP working area.

-To mitigate arsenic Problem in drinking water by identifying contaminated wells and providing arsenic free tube well to every BDP school and community.

-To provide relief and rehabilitation to the flood and other natural disaster affected people in our working area.

-To motivate the community people about the environment pollution and distribute saplings to the community people.

Legal Status: Registered under NGO Affairs Bureau

Working Area: Dhaka, Gazipur, Netrokona, Barisal & Jamalpur
Upazila Covered: 08 nos

Donor: ACEF (Japan), JAFS- OSAKA Japan, Asia Arsenic Network

Information on Staff, Beneficiaries:

Category
Female
Male
Children
Total
Staff Strength
Number of teacher is 309 among which only 6 persons are male. Office staff is 44 in number.
Beneficiaries
8054 elementary primary school teacher, 309 elementary primary school teacher and 1200 community people.

Major program/projects of the organization:
o Pre-school Program (Early childhood Program)
o Primary Education Program
o Post Primary Assistant Program
o Vocational Education Program
o Foster Child Program
o School Health Education Program
o HIV/AIDS Program
o Relief, Rehabilitation and Disaster