More than 1,500 marginalized families were brought under safety net aimed at improving their living and livelihood conditions in the city.
In order to reduce urban poverty and hunger, the slum households were brought under food support amid public private collaborative efforts.
The observation came at a dialogue with public representatives, government officials and community people related to the city level social safety net today.Brac Urban Development Programme (UDP) organized the meeting at the Councilor office of Ward number 12 of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) discussing and devising ways and means on how to elevate living and livelihood conditions of the marginalized families living in slums and other poverty-prone areas. Ward Councilor and RCC Panel Mayor Shariful Islam Babu and regional coordinator of Brac Farzana Parveen addressed the meeting as focal persons.
Assistant Director of the Department of Social Services Bayezid Hossain Wareshi, Senior Trainer of the Department of Youth Development Abdul Karim and Brac Regional Manager Nehedi Hassan highlighted their respective promotion activities related to employment generation and poverty eradication.
Farzana Parveen said around 11,400 households living in different slum areas in the city are getting the time-fitting tools of improving their living and livelihood conditions through reducing multidimensional poverty and deprivation.
An empowering situation has been created so that the targeted people are able to get access to adequate safe drinking water and sanitation, affordable housing, basic and inclusive services and upgraded slums.
Under the project, the families are getting empowerment and entrepreneurship privileges through need-based promotional activities.
As a whole, the UDP is intended to promote socio-economic empowerment of the beneficiary people.
