BANGLADESH has an abundant number of NGOs working alongside the government for the development of the country. It is estimated that over 80 per cent of the NGOs in Bangladesh delivers an essential service delivery package, that mostly includes micro-finance, health & sanitation, education packages. Regrettably, most of these NGOs are rationally targeting the poorest of the poor and people with disabilities. The people with disabilities are about 21 per cent of the poorest and are mostly excluded from all the NGO activities. Less than 399 NGOs out of few thousand NGOs working in the country are contributing to action agenda for people with disabilities. A lot of NGOs are working for human rights of the women, but human rights of women with disabilities are hardly being addressed. A lot of organizations have asylum homes for women who have been rescued from traffickers and were ill-treated. But most of the doors are closed for an ill-treated woman if she is academically disabled. Nearly all the NGOs working on human rights of children recognize various problems of the children but they ignore the children with disabilities. Lot of NGOs are also offering non-formal schooling programmes tapping the children who are missing out from the official education structure. Unfortunately, the children with disabilities are mostly left out of their school catchement area surveys. A child with a physical disability requires no unique awareness or education technique. Children with mild visual and hearing disabilities could be incorporated in the schools programme without a good deal of extra endeavour. Nevertheless they are deprived of access to schools and missing out the opportunity of formal education. So children with disabilities should be brought under the fold of NGO activities.
Md Rajja
Medical Doctor
Narayani Sub Regional Hospital, Birgunj, Nepal
[email protected]
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