Roots Bangladesh established in 2001.The emergence of roots Bangladesh organization (RB) is different than others. The emergence of roots Bangladesh organization (RB) is different than others. In the year of 2001 some young students of Bagerhat P.C College felt in necessary to help people who had been absolutely destitute, unprivileged and extremely poor. They had no access to health facilities, e
ducation, no employment no homestead and no land. These enthusiastic students realize that their existed number of problems of slum dwellers and their living status is extremely worse. Besides their education, these students established a health care, center to ensure services to the slum dwellers. On that time they motivated the slum people on nutrition; primary health care; antenatal and postnatal care; diarrhea and other communicable diseases. As day passed this work has been turned into multifarious development interventions like education, nutrition and employment. In 2001 most of those students left the college after completion of their final examination and went back to their respective village. Some of them started development work in order to assist the targeted people for their socio-economic up liftmen in their own village in Rampal and Bagerhat upazila under Bagerhat district Sk. Sukuruzzaman one of the dedicated development workers along with a group of local social workers established Roots Bangladesh and started to implement development program activities in his own village’s area under Bagerhat upazila. The Scenario’s of Roots Bangladesh’s working area is that women are socially disadvantaged, neglected little no access to health facilities and economically vulnerable. They are denied the legal, human and democratic right and employment opportunities. It is fact that the right of women and children are violated in family, community and institution. Most of the women and children have affected by malnutrition. On the other hand health service is quite inadequate and they have no proper health education. We thin; the participatory process is the way and means to develop the socio-economic condition of the people right now. Roots Bangladesh is established with participatory process for overall development of the people. Established in 2004, ROOTS started development work through raising awareness, sensitizing and organizing the women living in poverty and extreme poverty on development issues and building their leadership and management skills. The initial aim of the work was to alleviate poverty through empowering women. From that humble beginning, ROOTS has grown in strength, today it is one of the innovative NGOs in Bangladesh. In its long journey of 21 years, the organization remains committed to make deference in the lives of people by promoting justice and social harmony. The Target group Roots Bangladesh is mainly the marginal farmers especially who have an unutilized resources suitable for agriculture, aquaculture, and small non- farm income generating activities for their sustenance but not able to use the resource for their development or secured livelihood due to lack of proper guidelines and logistic supports. The people CDC words with are
Children, adolescents, poor women, youths, students. Women headed household. Household members with marginal income. People with disability. Members of locally elected body, social elected women etc. Civil society. The organization aims at social development especially in rural and remote areas through awareness mobilization of the poor who are the active agents of social evolutionary change. Based on felts needs, the self reliance of the beneficiaries is facilitated on participatory basis to make them their own decision makers. Vision: ROOTS envisages a prudent nation free from illiteracy and poverty where every citizen leads a life with dignity and equity. Mission:
To work for the people and with the people irrespective of religion, caste, ethnicity, creed, belief, age and s*x who are in any form of marginalization and exclusion. To implement appropriate, need based, result oriented and right based development programs among government, civil societies, NGOs, and international community. To enhance capacity of personnel, institutions and groups who are involved in development and welfare activities. To strengthen organizational sustainability for rendering services to the people.
