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History
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The
inception: A brief history of the organization |
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Unnayan
Uddog is a national, non-profit, non-political and non-governmental
organization. It first came into being in 1991 as a local NGO,
namely Uddog with a view to consolidating people's power and
to use educational institutions as development vehicle. Our
social history contains a lot of events that educational institutions
and different other social organizations respond spontaneously
during natural disasters or any emergency of the society. But
the responses have never been consolidated because of lack of
appreciation of their role once crisis is over. |
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The
teachers and students of the educational institutions have great
influence in our society. Still they are the most acceptable
community leaders in their respective communities. Besides,
they are more familiar with the nature and dimension of the
problems of their own communities where they live in. Their
feelings are more genuine than that of outsiders which can inspire
them in serving their respective communities with more dedication. |
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To
justify the idea Unnayan Uddog involved a rural college to implement
a development programme through it. The lessons learned from
the pilot intervention were that if they are organized under
a network, they could implement development programmes successfully
and in a cost-effective manner. To the given context it is possible
to involve mass people in the overall development process at
any places in any country. Experience shows that the paramount
problems i.e. over population, mass illiteracy, lack of primary
health care and sanitation system, malnutrition, environmental
degradation, paramount child labor etc. could be solved successfully
through this way in a relatively shorter period of time. |
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The
approach can also be remove the claim that our youths alienate
themselves from their eternal rural abode after completing their
higher education and become urban minded. They hardly look back
towards their origin. This might have been due to lack of coordination
between our education system and development efforts. This attitude
may be changed if our tender-hearted school/college children
are made to take part in development activities at community
level since their boyhood. They have the spirit to conduct social
services latent in their mind. Thus they would be worthy citizen
of the country. |
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In
1997, it was renamed and re-registered as Unnayan Uddog. Since
then it has been working giving emphasis on professionalism
in implementing the action programmes along with this approach. |
