Legal Status:
Khagrapur Mohila Kalyan Samity is registered socio-development women focal organization. It has been registered with the Directorate of Women Affair of the Government of Bangladesh and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh bearing registration Nos:
- Directorate of Women Affairs registration no- Khagra-23/99, date- 08/04/1999.
- Foreign Donation registration no-1894 date- 13/12/2003 and renewed date- 01/03/2010
Date of establishment:
KMKS established on 12th March 1993 at Khagrapur village of Sadar Upazilla under Khagrachari Hill District.
Vision:
Establishment of poverty-free and equal society in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Mission:
Establishment of the poor and vulnerable people, especially the women and children in the society, setting them in the mainstream of development and empowering them through promoting their socio-economic and cultural status, capability, and establishing a self-sustenance society.
Goal:
Establishing the poor and vulnerable people, especially the women and children in the society, setting them in the mainstream of development and their empowerment through promoting their socio-economic and cultural status, capability and establishing a self-sustainable women development program.
Objectives:
Ensure education, primary health care, family welfare, water & sanitation and such other measures for the common mass to attain a healthy living pattern.
- Awareness build-up on mother and child health’s.
- Pave ways for the local young, widows and separated women self-employment by initiating affordable technical training, entrepreneurship and other micro-enterprises.
- Improve the women’s role in family as well as in society i.e. planning, decision making etc.
- Work intensely to retain and preserve the age-old indigenous knowledge, culture and wisdom.
- Play a role towards ensures the sustainable and eco-friendly development.
- Partnering other development organization & women focal organization
Target Group(s):
The main beneficiaries of the organization are the poorest of the poor and vulnerable people, emphasizing on the hill women and children. The criteria of selection of the beneficiaries are: Poor and vulnerable, who fail to provide manual labor for at least 200 days a year, have less or no capital, are socially neglected, and confront gender discrimination and so forth.