Bangladesh Regeneration Trust - BRTUK

BRT is a UK registered charity established to facilitate regeneration and development work in rural Bangladesh through education, health, livelihood & annual heritage tour initiatives. The Bangladesh Regeneration Trust UK ("BRTUK") is a UK registered charity established to carry out various forms of community regeneration and developmental work across Bangladesh. We primarily concentrate on three

main areas of development; Health, Education and Livelihood as well as support seasonal and disaster relief work. Bangladesh belongs to the poorest group of countries in the world with around 160 million people living on a small piece of densely populated land. The World Bank's World Development indicators puts Bangladesh 170th place (out of 207 countries) in the global ranking of gross national income per capita. Bangladesh is characterised by extreme poverty, with the majority of the people living below the poverty line with no access to adequate healthcare and no means of earning. BRTUK provides a platform for you to support various projects, primarily within Sylhet but extending to other parts of Bangladesh as well. BRTUK focuses efforts on the three key areas of development:

Promoting education

Creating livelihood schemes

Supporting healthcare

Currently, we have built a school and college in a rural part of Bangladesh called Biswanath; providing much needed education facilities for women and need your support. Please help us to provide the basic facilities to teach under-privileged children. Our pioneering project is the Student Investment Programme (SIP). Where we use people on the ground to identify highly talented, but poor students and support their academic progression until and unless they become something special eg. We currently have 16 students and want to double this number by end of 2016. Projects under Health - we have recently provided an 'Eye Camp' to have eye tests and cataract operations for poor villagers. We have also distributed water wells and water filters. Our vision is to have a 24 hours mobile health care service going to the 'hard to reach' communities. Under Livelihood - we have distributed goats, sewing machines and rickshaws to poor villagers. Our vision is to provide a tool hire service and also have a female-managed garment industry recycling clothing from the UK.