Yesterday staff reporter of Voice of Bangladesh Mr.
Nahid Tanvir visited the office of Disabled Women Development Organization
(DWDO), Uttara in Dhaka. Then being requested he visited the project site of
this organization. There he meet with some women leader of DWDO such as Nazma
Begum, Sumona Ireen, Halima Akhtari, Mrs.
Nazmun Nahar, Khaleda Parvin, Mrs. Thamina Begum, Adori Begum, Yasmin Akhter Rimi and many other women leader
is leading DWDO to fulfill its mission for the disabled and destitute women and
girls of Bangladesh. It is a
registered, nonprofit, nonpolitical, non-governmental development organization
of a group of committed Women & Women with Disabilities. It mainly dealing
with Women with Disabilities and disadvantaged and distressed women of the
community. Currently, the activities of the organization are concentrated in
the Districts of Gazipur, Dhaka, Madaripur, Jessore, Magura, Khulna and
Sariatpur respectively with the support of its 6 partner organization in 6
district of Bangladesh. There is a plan to gradually expand DWDO activities in
two more other districts of Bangladesh for carrying out different socio
economic activities for the development and Empowerment of disabled,
disadvantaged and distressed Women. It was
established in 1997 with a view to alleviating the sorrows and sufferings of
the poor and extremely vulnerable women and helpless ultra poor women of the
communities as well as to lead them towards their socio-economic development.
The most of the working areas of DWDO are ill communicated low lying rural
remote areas of Gazipur districts and the disabled people of the areas
concerned are undeveloped in all aspects being deprived of all types of modern
facilities. Disabled women and girls are
mostly vulnerable and they are neglected more than men irrespective of nation,
race, and religion. Specifically disabled women and girls in rural and urban
slum areas are mostly deprived of their basic rights and they don’t have access
to need based facilities of education, employment, accessibility, health
support, justice and recreational activities. Generally the disabled women and
girls are also left out and excluded from decision making opportunities. Not
only these, disabled women and girls are also exploited, abused and tortured
differently by the opportunist people in the male dominated society. The disabled
women and girls of the distressed communities suffer seriously all the year
round due to various socio-economic problems. It was established with the
initiative of a group of committed and dedicated women and women with
disabilities. DWDO identified large number of Women with Disabilities at the
grassroots level and formed 87 groups of disabled women and girls. In each group
15-25 disabled women and girls.
It works to develop a society where all the
women and Women with Disabilities will enjoy equal rights, status, dignities
and opportunities in respect of human being. is to make an effort to promote
rights and improve the Socio Economic condition of the disadvantaged and
marginalized Women with Disabilities and other poor, distressed and destitute women
through various practical trainings and innovative activities. Recently it is implementing
some program for the empowerment of women and girls with disabilities. Some
program such and Leadership development
training, meeting with the legal aid authority, literacy training on disabled
women rights, media Campaign, meeting with the lawyer and judicial authority. By
implementing the empowering of the women with disabilities project, there is a
notable change in the life of targeted beneficiaries of DWDO, in gazipur district. DWDO basically works directly with
the Women with Disabilities to make them empowered for ensuring their rights
and local resource mobilization and working for reduction of violence/abuse and
poverty of the beneficiaries through training and advocacy. We have done our activities
from the support various local and international donor. DWDO has been
successful to change life-style of many women with disabilities through its
activities. In the previous time an opportunity of some women with disabilities
to make an opportunity of access to justice for WWDs and this was avoided and ignored
but now after performing advocacy works of DWDO, opportunity of access has been
a little bit flexible for Women with Disabilities. We hope, it will be more
effective after completion of new activities. In the training
program in which women and girls could share their experiences and they learn
how to build their leadership quality and overcome the barrier in the
community. This training program has several purpose. After finishing the
program we have achieved our target that we hoped. They gather information on the barriers
preventing women with disabilities from accessing. It raise awareness among communities
and providers of the needs of women with disabilities; and finally, to educate
women living with disabilities and their families about available government
facilities and their right to access those services. Those attending the
workshops noted that healthcare providers often assume disabled women who are
pregnant must have experienced sexual violence. We hope DWDO will be able to
reduce violence against women and it will be able to develop the condition disabled
of women and girls.
Reporter
: Nahid Tanvir.
Date
: 05th December 2016
Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
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