On October 15, 2008 the people of Bangladesh observed the 9th National Girl Child Day. National Girl Child Day is a national strategy that seeks to improve the status of and end discrimination against girls in Bangladeshi society. Since 2000, Bangladesh has celebrated National Girl Child Day each year as one day of the annual Children's Rights Week.
The Hunger Project's strategy is designed to break the cradle-to-grave subjugation of girls and women that gives rise to chronic malnutrition in South Asia.
The Hunger Project has been active in India since 1984 and currently works across 14 states. The Hunger Project's approach of mobilizing people for self-reliant action, empowering women as key change agents and engaging with local government is culminated in one comprehensive strategy, the Panchayati Raj Campaign.
Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated countries with 150 million people, 49 percent of whom live below the national poverty line. The Hunger Project has been active in Bangladesh since 1990 and is currently the largest volunteer-based organization covering all 64 districts. The Hunger Project works in rural areas to promote self reliance and the sustainable end of hunger through the training of local government leaders, women, and youth.
Our programs in South Asia address the three critical elements for the sustainable end of hunger: mobilizing grassroots people to build self-reliance, empowerment women as the key agents of change
Bimal, Usha Sinha and Usha Singh and I attended four gram sabha’s presided over by three Hunger Project trained mukhyia's and one non-Hunger Project trained mukhyia, over a period of two days.
