We work with communities, especially women, youth, minorities, and marginalized groups. Vision:
Rupantar envisions a just society which fosters harmony with the larger community, culture and nature. Mission:
Rupantar is dedicated to unlocking human potential, empowering people, strengthening democratic practice, promoting cultural diversity and protecting the environment. Specifically, Rupantar’s role is to:
1. Establish democracy and governance through people’s participation
2. Promote the rights of children, youth, women, the differently able and marginalized people.
3. Resuscitate, develop and foster folk cultural forms and methods to sensitize grassroots people.
4. Build peoples’ capacity to cope with the impacts of climate change and natural disaster and to conserve natural bio-diversity.
5. promote peace and social harmony to eastablish a plularistic society. Rupantar is founded in 1992, and started its operations from 1994 in Khulna and Bagerhat district. At the beginning activities were mainly cultural; Rupantar activists performed theaters and popular folk music on various social issues. The fundamental principal of Rupantar is based on the hypothesis that culture and sustainable development are closely connected. This connection is an emerging concept in the development world. Although the identity of a society is largely determined by its culture, yet is difficult for any society to have a static sense of the culture. Both society and culture are changing simultaneously.
