Extreme poor families getting housing facilities

RAJSHAHI: For the first time in the city, poor and extreme poor families have started getting housing facilities as part of improving their living and livelihood condition, reports BSS. In association with Community Housing Development Fund (CHDF), Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing the housing development scheme aims at ensuring permanent shelter to the poor and extreme poor people. More than 90 households have, so far, received financial support from Taka 50,000 to two lakh each from the CHDF. Nizam-Ul Azim, Mayor-in-Charge of RCC, revealed this while inaugurating construction works of a housing project at Meherchandi area Sunday afternoon as chief guest. A total of 10 households were given Taka 14.5 lakh for house building purposes on the occasion. Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project (UPPRP) is operating the CHDF in association with UNDP and financial and technical supports from UK aid and UN Habitat.
Main thrust of the just concluded UPPRP was to improve the living and livelihood condition of more than two and half lakh poor and ultra poor people, especially women and girls, in the city. In the wake of gradual rising of slum, poor and ultra poor people, the ongoing anti-poverty scheme needs to be continued for urban poverty eradication in the city, said Nizam-Ul Azim while speaking on the occasion. "We are seeing visible success of the poverty reduction project in making the city free from various poverty-linked crimes and curses like child marriage, early pregnancy, dowry and drugs addiction and trafficking", he added.
In his welcome speech, Engineer Noor Islam, Member-Secretary of UPPRP, said the beneficiary communities identify and give priorities to the environmental, social and economic challenges they face as well as the required actions to address them.
More than 33,000 slum families under 1100 CDCs have come together in anti-poverty savings scheme to raise more than Taka 11.5 crore. Through the savings and credit programmes, the communities now can operate their own savings schemes and create a revolving fund from which credit operations are being managed.
Besides, under socio-economic fund, education grants were disbursed among dropout school children. It also provided business start-up grants to extreme poor women for poultry, goat rearing, cow fattening and agri-business allowing them to have access to regular income.
The apprenticeships and vocational training improved the odds of youth landing decent jobs and regular income.

Extreme poor families getting housing facilities

RAJSHAHI: For the first time in the city, poor and extreme poor families have started getting housing facilities as part of improving their living and livelihood condition, reports BSS. In association with Community Housing Development Fund (CHDF), Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing the housing development scheme aims at ensuring permanent shelter to the poor and extreme poor people. More than 90 households have, so far, received financial support from Taka 50,000 to two lakh each from the CHDF. Nizam-Ul Azim, Mayor-in-Charge of RCC, revealed this while inaugurating construction works of a housing project at Meherchandi area Sunday afternoon as chief guest. A total of 10 households were given Taka 14.5 lakh for house building purposes on the occasion. Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project (UPPRP) is operating the CHDF in association with UNDP and financial and technical supports from UK aid and UN Habitat. Main thrust of the just concluded UPPRP was to improve the living and livelihood condition of more than two and half lakh poor and ultra poor people, especially women and girls, in the city. In the wake of gradual rising of slum, poor and ultra poor people, the ongoing anti-poverty scheme needs to be continued for urban poverty eradication in the city, said Nizam-Ul Azim while speaking on the occasion. We are seeing visible success of the poverty reduction project in making the city free from various poverty-linked crimes and curses like child marriage, early pregnancy, dowry and drugs addiction and trafficking, he added. In his welcome speech, Engineer Noor Islam, Member-Secretary of UPPRP, said the beneficiary communities identify and give priorities to the environmental, social and economic challenges they face as well as the required actions to address them. More than 33,000 slum families under 1100 CDCs have come together in anti-poverty savings scheme to raise more than Taka 11.5 crore. Through the savings and credit programmes, the communities now can operate their own savings schemes and create a revolving fund from which credit operations are being managed. Besides, under socio-economic fund, education grants were disbursed among dropout school children. It also provided business start-up grants to extreme poor women for poultry, goat rearing, cow fattening and agri-business allowing them to have access to regular income. The apprenticeships and vocational training improved the odds of youth landing decent jobs and regular income.