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Disability and poverty are closely linked in a vicious cycle, but the cycle can be broken
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Tearfund partner, Koinonia, lobbies government for stronger health and safety legislation
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An international event focusing on integral mission, urbanisation and leadership
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Tearfund partner, HEED, secures funding for community flood embankments
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by Dr Kris Prenger
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‘Community-led total sanitation’ was pioneered in Bangladesh by Kamal Kar (a development consultant from India) and the Village Education Resource Centre while they were evaluating an NGO’s traditional subsidised sanitation programme. They wanted to convince the NGO to stop subsidising toilet construction because subsidies in the past had not led to community ownership and toilet usage. Instead, they suggested that the NGO should encourage people to help themselves. They developed an approach ...
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by Iftekhar Enayetullah. Over six million people live in Dhaka and each day they produce over 3,000 tons of household waste. Yet the Dhaka City Corporation collects less than half of it. The rest remains on roadsides, in open drains and in low-lying areas. This has a negative impact on the city’s environment. It is estimated that the population of Dhaka will be 19.5 million by 2015. It will become very difficult to find sites to bury the waste as the city expands, and transport costs to ...
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Minoti’s story: The impact of HEED’s Micro Finance Programme by Elgin Saha.
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by Elgin Saha. Can development goals be achieved without any credit system to help the poor begin income-generating activities? For many years this has been a difficult question for us in HEED, Bangladesh. We have discussed and deliberated. While the poor waited patiently…
