Medical Services For underprivileged Child: In 2011 we provided medical assistance to those children who are out of health care. They are the underprivileged children of the slum areas in Dacha, like kamala station, straight slum, Notably slum etc. We reached more then 1000 slum children from different areas of the city through medical campaigns that include free deiced check up and free medicines for theses children. Karma Foundation School Bangladesh is a developing country located at Southeast Asia. It is densely populated country having with its 140 million of population.
But most of the people are living below the poverty line. Near 80% of the total population are directly dependent of agriculture for their living and only 20% Population are engaged with non-agro based sectors. Par capita income is much lower then other region of the world even it is lower than the neighboring countries. Education and illiteracy rate of our country is also poor. Lot of initiatives have been taken by the Government and Non government organizations to increase the illiteracy and remove the illiteracy from the society in the meantime so that literacy rate has been increased to 60%.
But still then near 40% of the total population are remaining illiterate. It is obvious that a country can not get ahead with an average literacy rate so it is important that the illiteracy has to be removed to a minimum proportion. With this aim, primary education has been considered as compulsory for all. But this is not taking place because of various reasons. Some of them are as follows; Lack of public awareness: Most people are unaware about the necessity of education. Maximum parents/guardians of Bangladesh are illiterate so that they are not conscious about their children’s education.
Besides they can not realize the significance of education that this is the key elements in the age of information and globalization. * Financial restriction: being a developing country the financial opportunities are very limited for the people. The situation of most of the families is as worst as approximately 40 people out of 100 of the total population are living beneath the poverty line. As a result of this poverty curse Parents are being compelled to send their children to the street instead of school to earn money in various ways.
In consequence these children are becoming habituated in many illegal and crime activities like hijacking, pick pocketing, thieving etc. * Lack of institutions: The country does not have enough school as is required to fulfill the country population’s demand. A high average of less than 10 years old children can not go to the school due to the distant location of the school from the residence. There fore the enrollment of primary school is not performing accordingly. Lack of infrastructure: The landscape of this country is very unlike.
As a result the infrastructure is not healthy especially in countryside. The people that are living in the remote areas or at marshy land are unable to reach school as because of no feeder road from home to school. ; Providing free opportunity for the slum children to get primary education. Motivate the parents in the slum area for sending their children to the school. Increase the public awareness about necessity of education ; To ensure primary education for all the children, involved in many harmful activities, in the selected lump areas. Reducing criminal activities in the slum areas through education To ensure health care for the underprivileged children. ; Make a strong contribution to the field of education in Bangladesh. ; Make a beautiful society in the country. The main objective of Karma Foundation School is to ensure the involvement of slum children to primary education. With this aim several activities have been identified and will be implemented. The project beneficiaries will be all the children and the parents in the slum areas. Emergency Relief Relief for cold victims:
During the winter season the people of our country confront extreme cold. The whole citizens of the country shuddered due to extreme cold in the winter season in 2011. But those who have no shelter, living in the road side or poor people of rural areas, lacked of warm cloths, were the most vulnerable and helpless. Their living condition during winter is beggar description. Children were affected by cold related diseases like pneumonia, flu, influenza etc. Their lives are at high risk of death because of the brutal winter.
In that severe situation Karma Foundation, were committed to stand side the cold affected people and provided more then 1000 warm cloths to the cold victims in the slum area of Dacha District in 2011. Apart from emergency relief and cancer support program Karma Foundation also conducts many campaigns to increase the social awareness of the citizen of our county. Karma Foundation believes that if a minimum percentage of the citizens of our country come forward to help the deprived and poor people the poverty can be campaigns like; Anti drugs, Anti smoking, Anti dowry, women rights etc to increase the awareness of the society concerned person.
Campaign for illiteracy eradication: Karma Foundation working to make Bangladesh a developed and enlightened, free from poverty, illiteracy and all short of exploitations. To make this vision real the citizen of the country should be literate enough to lead the society to the ultimate destiny. Due to the concern of making Bangladesh a literate country Karma foundation conducts campaigns for illiteracy eradication. Through the campaign Karma tried to make the society more conscious about the necessity of education for every people of the country.
Anti Drug campaign Drug addiction has become one of the major causes of a country criminal activities. Within last five years the rate of drug addiction has been increased at a fast pace that our young generations, specially college and university students are madly jumped up to this deadly drug. In this respect In 2007 Karma Foundation Conducted anti drug and anti smoking campaigns by which our young generation were noticed to the bad impact of drug addiction and smoking to encourage them to circumvent this deadly and atrocious drug addiction.
Kali tragedy and her rescue Karma Foundation has supported more than sixty cancer and other victims in 2010. 12 medical camps to provide medical support and necessary medicines to autistic hillier. Our education program helped 60 slum children to Join in primary education. But we consider Shell’s rescue to be one of our best achievements in 2010. How we saved KALI kali, affected by the fatal disease breast cancer in Chula district. Doctor told that Kali needs immediate operation to save her life.
She work in Kidder medical as a nurse But due to skill’s illness she had to leave her Job. She could not manage the rest of the amount. As a result kali had to stay in the hospital bed until they can pay the rest of the amount according to the rule of the hospital. Kali became helpless and urging for help from the society concerned people. In that circumstance Karma Foundation went to the hospital to visit kali and then assured that they would pay the total amount to make kali release from this condition.
After four days Karma Foundation called kali parents and provided the rest of the whole amount by which kali survived. Challenges and Future Strategies: Karma Foundation Cancer Care Centre in Five divisions: In Bangladesh there is only one government run cancer hospital named National Institute of Cancer Research & Hospital in Mikhail, Dacha. This Hospital can accommodate only 50 patients in its in-house facilities. It could also cover the Chemotherapy to 60 more patients on an out patient basis.
There are two other cancer hospitals in the private sector-the Shania Mission Cancer Hospital and Delta Oncology Center. These hospitals provide diagnostic facilities and treatment in the form of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and re-constructive surgery. Needless to say, with thousands of patients requiring treatment, counseling and rehabilitation, these It is a well-known fact that inadequacy of treatment combined with preferential access to health services is the main reason why almost 35% of our cancer patients go to the neighboring countries for their treatment.
Hence the necessity for building up many more centers for the treatment of cancer patients in the shortest possible time can not be over emphasized. Therefore, Karma Foundation is going to inaugurate their “Cancer Care Center” on July 2012 in Dacha city to facilitate the cancer patients and attending parents, living in the rural areas, with free accommodation near the hospital area, while any additional family member can stay at a nominal cost of TX. 30/day to minimize misuse f the facility.
The ultimate purpose is to ensure reducing the accommodation problems of the cancer victims living far from the city. And if we achieve our purpose the percentage of death due to cancer will automatically reduced because then the patients would get proper treatment without any break. Karma Foundation School for (Under privileged children) in Five Divisions in Bangladesh: Karma Foundation has already started its education program entitled Karma Foundation School in Notably Mammogram, in Dacha to facilitate the slum children with primary education to reduce the illiteracy rate in Bangladesh.
