Archive for Bangladesh
Social Enterpreneurs in Bangladesh: Waste Concern
Bangladesh has a garbage problem. Dhaka, a city of about 10 million has a particularly big garbage problem. Of the 3,500 tons of trash dumped each day, only half is picked up by the city. The rest is left to lie in the open streets of slums, marketplaces, vacant lots and riverbanks, attracting rats, clogging [...]
Rural youth entrepreneurship in Bangladesh
Another interesting article “Dropout Youth and Small Entrepreneurship: an approach to improve livelihoods of rural people in Bangladesh” by Wakilur Rahman. 1. About150 million people live in Bangladesh among them 44 million (15-29 years) youths and 80 percent of them live in rural areas. Roughly half of them belong to less landed rural families and [...]
eHealth in Asia Pacific
the utilization of innovative technologies is becoming more and more widespread in Asia, as many new initiatives has been launched in the past couple of month: Bhutan: telemedicine for remote areas The health ministry’s new telemedicine projects will help Bhutanese patients access medical advice from experts in India via the internet and through real-time videoconferencing. [...]
Social Venture to create rural employment in Bangladesh
Hathay Bunano, literally hand-knitted, started in 2005 in Bangladesh with $500 and a handful of staff. Now more than 2,500 women are working for the company and turnover has reached around $40,000, (Tk28 lakh) a month. Golam Morshed, Samantha’s husband, and managing director of Hathay Bunano, said that though it was not a big venture [...]
Solar powered boats bringing education and sustainable energy to remote areas in Bangladesh
The remote Chalanbeel region of Bangladesh is home to some of the poorest and most marginalised communities in Bangladesh. Road access is extremely limited with boats being the only dependable means of transport, especially in the wet season where much of the area becomes flooded from monsoon rains. Many people have no land with which [...]
Garbage turns into gold in Bangladesh
By Lisa Schroeder published in CSMonitor Maqsood Sinha and Iftekhar Enayetullah like to talk trash, but that’s because they’re pioneers in Bangladesh’s organic-waste recycling. They are the founders and directors of Waste Concern. Since 1995, this NGO has reduced the amount of urban garbage produced here, created jobs and healthier living environments for poor residents, [...]
The Bangladesh Social Enterprise Project
The Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI), an independent non-profit research centre, in association with the Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) based in Australia and Libra Advisory Group based in UK has initiated the Bangladesh Social Enterprise Project (BSEP), supported by the British Government’s Department for International Development (DFID). This project aims to utilize key strengths of [...]
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