ENRICH (Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of Poor Households towards Elimination of their Poverty) is an innovative and holistic development program embracing the goal: poverty alleviation through fostering resources and capacities of the poor families. The key objectives of the program are: empowering the poor families, accessing to nutrition-health and education, defending natural disasters and rehabilitation, expanding government and non-government supports, taking up strategy to use assets and capacities of the target families, making coordination between the activities of government and non-government organizations etcetera. SSS, with technical and financial support from PKSF, took up the program in the beginning of 2010. Working area of the program is Dainna Union of Tangail Sadar Upazilla and Bahadurshadi Union of Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur. The activities under the program are financial and technical services, nutrition and healthcares, education and child development, infrastructure and social development, and so on.
Table : Activities of ENRICH Program Crore Taka
SL. | Particulars | Achievement
in 2021-22 |
Cumulative Achievement (30 June 2022) |
1. | No. of Districts | 00 | 02 |
2. | No. of Upazilla | 00 | 02 |
3. | No. of Union | 00 | 02 |
4. | No. of Branch | 00 | 03 |
5. | No. of Families | 12 | 14,987 |
6. | No. of Unit | 00 | 04 |
7. | Financial Services: | ||
Income Generating Credit Disbursement | 19.11 | 120.11 | |
Asset Creating Credit Disbursement | 0.0025 | 4.50 | |
Livelihood Development Credit Disbursement | 0.002 | 1.06 | |
Total Disbursement (Crore Tk.) | 19.1145 | 125.67 | |
Balance of General Savings | 2.80 | 11.12 | |
No. of Beneficiary of Special Savings | 13 | 26 | |
8. | Health and Nutrition Services: | ||
Sub-health Center (No.) | 04 | 04 | |
Health Camp Organizing (No.) | 08 | 57 | |
Eye Camp Organizing (No.) | 02 | 16 | |
Cataract Operation (Person) | 30 | 345 | |
Healthcares Providing (Person) | 57,497 | 4,72,283 | |
9. | Education and Child Development: | ||
Child Education Center (No.) | 55 | 55 | |
Total Student (No.) | 1351 | 1,650 | |
10. | Infrastructure and Social Development: | ||
Beggar Rehabilitation (Person) | 00 | 17 | |
Setting up/Repairing Bamboo Bridge and Culverts | 00 | 37 | |
Construction Public Toilet (No.) | 00 | 01 | |
Installation of Tube-well (No.) | 00 | 90 | |
Installation of Sanitary Latrine for the Poor Families (No.) | 00 | 885 | |
Community based Sanitary Latrine Installation(No.) | 00 | 60 | |
11. | Youth Development and IGA Trainings/Workshops | ||
Vocational and Technical Training to the Youth | 00 | 07 | |
Self-reliance and Leadership Training to the Youth | 08 | 41 | |
Training on IGA to the Group-members | 10 | 70 | |
Basic Training to the ENRICH Teachers | 02 | 15 | |
Basic Training to the ENRICH Health Volunteers | 02 | 16 | |
12. | Green Economy, Grants and Various Development Activities | ||
Tree/Vegetable Seeds/Saplings Distribution | 00 | 6,400 | |
Basok Saplings Distribution (No.) | 00 | 5,200 | |
Vermi-compost Plant (No. of Beneficiaries) | 00 | 2,379 | |
Support to Various Farming (No. of Families) | 200 | 8,340 | |
Distribution of Golden Hen (No.) | 00 | 2,064 | |
Solar System Supply (No.) | 00 | 102 | |
Distribution of Bondhuchulla | 00 | 19 |