LOSAUK

An Organization of people's action for socio-cultural and economic

Life Oriented session with

Community women and

 adolescent girls

LOSAUK has a definite plan for next five years (2007-2011). The organization has developed a few projects on:

• Combat against Trafficking on Woman & Children

• Reduce Violence against Woman

• Combat against Child Labour

• Prevent HIV/AIDS & STD 

• Impart Human Rights Education and Training through TfD process

• Poverty reduction through Cultural Intervention

• Life Oriented Social Education

• Promote Public awareness of human rights and good governance through folk and popular theatre performance with communicative printed materials and inter personal dialogue

• Behavioral change for environmental protection of wetlands (beel) through use of indigenous culture and participatory theatrical form.

Following projects are ready projects of LOSAUK for the year 2007 to 2011

LOSAUK presently works with these following beneficiaries of the given projects and for the further expansion, the organization looks for donors: 

1.      Human rights based approaches to resolution of minority rights discrimination of the eunuch community (hijra) in greater Khulna.

Location of the project:

31 wards of Khulna city corporation, its outskirts as well as two district towns named Satkhira & Bagerhat.

Goal of the Project:

Sensitize the rights of hijras (eunuch) community considering a social being in the society and the state as well as provide them with an alternative earning source. 

Duration of the project:  2007 to 2010.

Total Project Cost: BDT 50,00,000.00 equivalent USD 76923.00

2.      Promote a supportive and enabling environment with creative education to prevent the spread of HIV/AID and STD among adolescent & youth.

Goal of the project:

All target people have the power, skill, knowledge and resources to protect them from HIV infection. 

Target groups:

Adolescents and  youths. 

Objectives :

·        Promote a supportive and enabling environment to those community groups

·        Change the attitude of people towards discrimination and stigmatization associated with HIV/AIDS and STD.

 Duration of the Project : 3 years  from 2007 to 2010

Target areas :

Khulna & Satkhira districts, number of upazila: 6, number of union : 90 of six upazila and 30 wards of Khulna City Corporation.

Total cost of the project : BDT 49,27,800.00 equivalent USD 75,812.30

3.      Protect the rights of indigenous jatra artistes and their means of livelihood.

Goal of the project:

Establish & restore the rights of jatra artistes and original form of jatra.

Target groups :

Owner of the private and professional jatra troupe, amateur and professional jatra artistes, key actors, elite of the society.

Location of the project : Khulna district.

Cost of the project: BDT 25,44,135.00 equivalent USD 39,752.10

4.      Behavioral change for environmental protection of wetland (beel) through use of indigenous culture and participatory theatrical form.

Goal: Protection of beel edge habitats.

Time Frame : 3 years from 2007 to 2010

Objective of the project :

a.       Protect the beel edge vegetation and habitats

b.      Prevent further reclamation of natural habitats for conservation and proper use.

c.       Restore the legal rights of the local community.

 Target groups :

Local community people near to the target beel areas who live under poverty lines, local elite, human rights educators and activists as well as civil society members.

Target areas: 4 beel areas of Batiaghata and Dumuria police station.

Project cost : BDT 25,09,112.00 equivalent Euro 32,586.00

5.      Child laborer fights against worst form of child labor for child rights.

Target groups:

Underprivileged and migrated slum working children (both sex), their parents and employers.

Location of the project : 31 wards of Khulna City Corporation

Project goal : Protect the rights of underprivileged children up to the age of 14.

Project objectives:

·        Identify the actual risk oriented worst form child worker for the children under the age of 9-14 in Khulna City Corporation.

·        Rescue the children

·        Integrate the rescued children

·        Transform the attitude of the societal people

Duration: From 2007 to 2010 (3 years)

Project cost : BDT  22,28,442.00 equivalent USD 34,819.00

6.      Promote public awareness of human rights and good governance through folk and popular theatre performance with communicative printed material and interpersonal dialogue

Goal of the Project:

Promotion of human rights and good governance issues through cultural means.

Objective:

·        Educate and inform

·        Address human right violation

·        Mobilize grass root people

·        Transform the attitude of the grass root people

Target groups :

Underprivileged woman, children, local disadvantaged people, illiterate farmers and local elite.

Target areas : 

133 villages of 7 unions of Batiaghata police station of Khulna district.

Duration of the Project: 3 years from 2007 to 20010

Project cost: BDT : 61,07,879.00 equivalent Euro 79,323.10

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