This 4-year project aims to support 700 orphan households in Kurigram District, Bangladesh. It is funded by IRUK and implemented using an integrated approach to support entire families, rather than individual orphans. The project seeks to improve livelihoods, ensure access to education and healthcare, and protect children's rights. Key activities include skill training, asset transfers, group savings programs, and advocacy campaigns to establish social dignity and reduce poverty for orphan families in the community.

1. Project
Overview
Project Duration:
October 2014 – September
2018
Donor: IRUK
Total Number of
Beneficiaries:
700 Orphan
households
Project Location:
Kurigram District,
Bangladesh
ALTERNATIVE ORPHAN FAMILY
SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM THROUGH
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
Background:
Many orphans in Bangladesh have significantly and adversely been
affected by various factors such as limited access to quality healthcare,
education, recreation, livelihood etc. For the low standard of living and
the precarious environmental and economic situation, orphans are
particularly susceptible to the false promises of human traffickers,
being forced into child labour or being sexually exploited.
The “Alternative Orphan Family Sponsorship through Sustainable
Livelihoods” project is developed for supporting orphan families with an
integrated approach instead of addressing one to one sponsorship
program. Through the one to one sponsorship program, we focused only
the development of a particular orphan child who was under the
sponsorship program, but this alternative intervention is covering all
children in a family. As a socially responsive faith-based organization,
we do not create any discrimination through our program interventions in
any way. For this reason, we have developed a non-discriminatory
project to help the orphans and their families generate income.
This project addresses the livelihood needs of the most vulnerable
orphan families through business development, assists them in protecting
their children with continue education, maintain their family with dignity
and create quality access to line departments through voice raise
platform and supports communities to implement community led total
sanitation (CLTS). The project helps to reduce poverty and ensure child
rights and protection as per Government of Bangladesh’s (GoB) national
policy and Millennium Development Goal.
Further, this project consulted with Local Government Institutions
(LGIs), elites and administrations, specifically the line department
officers. The project has established strong relations with the govt. line
departments who have play an important role in delivering technical
training for skill development, which is aimed at supporting the
improvement of the orphan livelihood with social dignity.

2. Project
Overview
Project Duration:
October 2014 – September
2018
Donor: IRUK
Total Number of
Beneficiaries:
700 Orphan households
Project Location:
Kurigram District,
Bangladesh
Overall objective:
To ensure sustainable development of the orphan and their
families as well as restore their social dignity and protection
Specific objective:
To ensure sustainable development and social dignity through enhanced
productivity, income, livelihood security, rights and protection of the
orphans and their families at Ulipur Upazila under Kurigram District in
Bangladesh
Expected Results:
Result-1: Enhanced wellbeing of the targeted orphan children
including survival, protection, participation, mobilization, and
healthy development to continue their education;
Result-2: Improved the status of the orphan families and
livelihoods through economic productivity, income, asset, food
accessibility and- consumption, and improved living status of the
700 targeted orphan and widow households;
Result-3: Increased community awareness and established
community organization linkage with Local Government Institutions
for establishing social dignity through participation, social
inclusion, attending voice rise to rights and protection.
Key Indicators:
Under Result 1:
1.1: 100% of the targeted dropout/out of school orphan children
in the targeted families will be enrolled in education institutions.
1.2: 95% orphan children will continue their education up to
advance level.
1.3: 100% orphan children will get need-based health facilities
through linkage with health service providers.
1.4: 90% of the targeted orphan children will have safe &
secured home free from abuse.

3. Project
Overview
Project Duration:
October 2014 – September
2018
Donor: IRUK
Total Number of
Beneficiaries:
700 Orphan households
Project Location:
Kurigram District,
Bangladesh
Under Result 2:
2.1: At least 80% of the targeted orphan households will have
increased income by at least BDT 3,000.00 per month (€26).
2.2: At least 95% of the targeted households will have increased
assets by at least 100%.
2.3: 100% of the targeted HHs will enjoy 3 meals in a day.
Key Indicators:
Key Indicators:
Under Result 3:
3.1: Developed Union and 01 Upazila based platform through the
participation of the targeted households for raising their voice and
involved with additional socioeconomic activities.
3.2: 100% of the orphan family will have sanitary latrines through
the mobilization of local government institutions and they will use
it properly.
3.3: At least 90% participants/parents will enhance their
awareness, practices, behavior on related issues (children
education, child protection, healthcare, WatSan, hygiene,
nutrition etc.).
Innovation of the project:
The project is developed for supporting orphan families with an
integrated approach instead of addressing one to one sponsorship
program. IRB normal sponsorship program support any orphan up to 18
years, normally one orphan get support 8-10 years monthly basis @
€26. So within the 10 years total cost is (26* 12*10 years) = € 3120.
But designed project cost will be (26*12*4 Years) = € 1248.00 per
sponsor family. So through this integrated approach we minimize program
cost and assume better result which contribute to increase family income
and establishes social dignity of the orphan and their families.
Innovation point of view project practicing child to child community
development for ensuring child protection through child club, widow
cooperative apex body for sustainable development through social
enterprise and community participation for address new orphan families
in the society for reduce vulnerabilities and protect dignity.

4. Project
Overview
Project Duration:
October 2014 – September
2018
Donor: IRUK
Total Number of
Beneficiaries:
700 Orphan households
Project Location:
Kurigram District,
Bangladesh
Contact
Khabirul Haque Kamal
Programme Coordinator
Khabirul.kamal@islamicrelief-bd.org
Mobile: 01777773786
Key Activities:
Key activities for achieving result 1:
 Enroll orphan in education institutes
 Provide monthly educational allowance
 Provide recreational facilities and award giving for good education
progress,
 Facilitate hygiene program including health care education through
life skill and BCC
 Ensure child protection training and development.
 Formation of child club & child leadership at union and upazila
level,
 Mobilize school teachers and SMC for quality education for all
children.
 Strengthening LGIs steering committee related to child protection
at union and upazila level.
Key activities for achieving result 2:
 CBO formation and functioning
 Open individual Bank AC.
 Open self help group bank AC
 Develop household’s business plan;
 Need based skill & technology transfer training;
 Productive assets/cash transfer targeted households through self
help group;
 Mobilize group-led savings and conduct weekly/bi-weekly meeting;
 Issue based advocacy campaign like DRR & CCA, CP, early
marriage, dowry, gender etc (grassroots to national level);
Key activities for achieving result 3:
 Baseline survey
 Community consultation and need assessment for economic
productivity
 Capacity building of CBO members (leadership, CBO management,
financial management);
 Numeracy and literacy education;
 Prepare annual CBO plan of actions;
 Establish common platform for voice rise and access to line
department,
 Annual progress review (APR)
 Day observance;
 Lesson learning documentation through action research
 Promote Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and mass
monitoring for progress analysis involving with LGIs.