Area Coverage
Program/Area Coverage
Voluntary Organization for Social Development (VOSD) is a National NGO, established in 1987. VOSD is permitted to work all over Bangladesh. Main aim is to promote the socio-economic and cultural status of the rural & urban poor and disadvantaged people, emphasizing the women, disabled and children through concretization, capacity building, institution build and capital formation as well as imparting felt-need based problem solving programs.
So far, it has covered 10,500 villages of 818 unions under 137 upazilas in 35 districts. VOSD strategies are with the philosophy of alleviation of poverty and empowerment of the targeted people. It has dedicated 9577 staffs and volunteers to derive away poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition. VOSD has been working for last 27 years in the field of education, training, water & sanitation, agriculture, fisheries, livestock, micro-credit, health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, socio-economicde development & disaster management.
Most of the working areas of VOSD are in the remote rural areas, chars, coastal belt of the Bay of Bengal and very near to the dangerous rivers Bramhaputra, Meghna, Surma, Karnafuli, Jamuna and Padma, which are very disaster prone, remote area. The areas are neglected, underprivileged, disadvantaged, under served, isolated and low lying and also highly poverty stricken area, where government and other supports seldom reach. The coverage of the working areas have been increasing day by in response to fulfill the felt needs, basic needs, human rights solution of problems of the people.
Program area coverage
Sl. No | Program | Total No. |
01 |
District |
35 |
02 |
Upazila |
137 |
03 | Union | 818 |
04 |
Village |
10,500 |
05 |
Urban Slums. |
52 |
06 |
Population covered |
1,08,50,320 |
07 |
Water body for fisheries |
43,254 Acres |
08 | Group members | 54,254 |
09 | Group savings |
TK. 23,62,58,698/- |
10 |
Loan distributed |
TK.153,65,65,019/- |