NAHAR Annual Report 2017 North American Humanitarian Aid and Relief Nahar Relief is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization | All Rights Reserved Naharrelief.org 2668 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY-11208, Directornahar@naharrelief.org, +1 844-666-2427 www.naharrelief.org
President’s Statement As President of the Executive Board of the North American Humanitarian Aid & Relief (NAHAR), a not-for-profit humanitarian organization, I am pleased to solely dedicate this organization in reducing human sufferings among the distressed population of the world. North American Humanitarian Aid & Relief (NAHAR) plays an essential role in long term educational and health care, drug and alcoholic dependencies and promote family unity & values. During the past year, it has engaged with emergency relief, rehabilitation, developmental assistance, and program services to vulnerable population of Bangladesh & several communities across the globe to share expertise, findings and recommendations. All activities are geared towards ensuring the highest standards of professional norms in program delivery, including accountability to beneficiaries and donors. I am pleased to note the weight accorded to independent evaluations.
Mission North American Humanitarian Aid & Relief (NAHAR) is a not-for-profit humanitarian organization that provides emergency relief, rehabilitation, developmental assistance, and program services to vulnerable population of Bangladesh. NAHAR is solely dedicated to reducing human suffering in its mission
Executive Director’s Statement
Developing an independent and credible evaluation function in NAHAR has been a long journey. A major milestone in NAHAR for the first time, it sets a holistic, sustainable and pro-poor programs that bridge emergency relief and log-term development at the grassroots level. Another major achievement that provided emergency relief, rehabilitation, developmental assistance, and program services to vulnerable population of Bangladesh. NAHAR serves the needs of the most vulnerable- particularly women and children, victims of natural disasters & civil unrest, and the poor. In the recent years, this organization has empowered communities by building capacity and by maximizing local resources in both program design and implementation. I wish to thank to the beneficiaries and donors for their dedication, recognizing NAHAR as the professional non-profit organization, while rewarding and enriching, is an exacting one. I also wish to thank NAHAR management and staff for facilitating evaluations, members of the Executive Board for their guidance and support around the globe.
Reaching for the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations. The broad goals are interrelated though each has its own targets to achieve. The total number of targets is 169. The SDGs cover a broad range of social and economic development issues. These include poverty, hunger, health, education, climate change, gender equality, water, sanitation, energy, environment and social justice
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Emergency Relief
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Orphan Care
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Academic Scholarship
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Disability Care
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Health Care
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Poverty Alleviation
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Disaster Management
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Julekha Aktar Bizly She is a Visually Impaired (Blind) student from Nilphamari Mohal Collage, Bangladesh. She has just completed first year of her BA (Hons.) and got first class. Among her four sisters two of them are Blind by born. However, the disability could not stop them from higher study and to become a changemaker of the society. She is actively engaed with community mobiligation activities and support her family as well. NAHAR is providing her Schoalrship to support her study and provided a laptop. She collect recoreded academic materials, scnad book and convert it into audio version and stor these all in her laptop. “This Laptop is my eye� she said.
Story of Bizly
Disability Care
Students with disabilities are receiving scholarship to continue their study in different school, collage and Universities in Bangladesh. Rohingya Muslim with disabilities have received assistive device including Wheelchair, Crutch, and others mobilty aids . Entrepreneur with destabilise received small capital to run their own business.
NAHAR volunteers working hard to distribute dry food and water in Houston, Texas to those affected by Hurricane Harvey. NAHAR volunteers also assisted in reconstructing the homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey.
Post-Harvey assistance by local NAHAR volunteers continue. The destruction and damage is endless and we need your help. NAHAR executive director and local volunteers in Houston, Texas assisting to clean up, restore and reconstruct the destruction post-Harvey.
Disaster Management Ashraful Islam is living with his four daughters and two sons in the haor area in Shunamganj, Sylhet, Bangladesh. The recent storm and flood destroyed his house and crops. He did not have any food to feed his family and place to sleep. They were living in the open sky with hunger. NAHAR reached them to rebuild his house. NAHAR team build a house with two rooms and a sanitary latrine. “I feel I am in the haven to see that my dearst children are sleeping happily in this green home donetab by NAHAR� Ashraful said.
Story of Ashraful
Story of Oahab
Recently, our team visited the flood-affected Haor area and led a survey to identify the most vulnerable families. We assess their needs and provide support accordingly to overcome the poverty challenges. Abdul Oahab, live with his 3 daughters and 3 sons along with his mentally ill wife. This flood destroyed his shelter and they are now sleeping in a garage. He works in other’s people boat to collect and sell sands and stones from nearest hills. But, the boat owner gets the major profit from it. Oahab remains hunger still he is working hard to feed his family. NAHAR extended its hand to him.
Flood in Shunamganj, Sylhet As most of the people in sunamgonj lost their possessions in flood and couldn’t harvest their cultivating lands most of the low end families faced severe situations in terms of economy and wealth. To alleviate poverty their, NAHAR sponsored Families with Boat, Domestic Animals and other means to earn their livelihood.
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Widows and girls received tailoring and swing machine from NAHAR through our local partner SAWAB in Bangladesh. Youth from ultra poor community received cows and goats to support their own livelihood through our local partner SAWAB. Financially underprivileged Freedomfighter of Bangladesh liberation war in 1971 received one time donation to start their small business.
Poverty Alleviation
The CRISIS Violence in Rakhine State which began on 25 August 2017 has driven an estimated 655,500 Rohingya across the border into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The speed and scale of the influx has resulted in a critical humanitarian emergency. The people who have arrived in Bangladesh since 25 August came with very few possessions. They have used most their savings on transportation and constructing a shelter, often out of no more than bamboo and thin plastic. They are now reliant on humanitarian assistance for food, and other life-saving needs. Basic services that were available prior to the influx are under severe strain due to the massive increase in people in the area. In some of the sites that have spontaneously emerged, water and sanitation facilities are limited or of poor quality, with extremely high density raising the risks of an outbreak of disease. The Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar is highly vulnerable, having fled conflict and experienced severe trauma, and now living in extremely difficult conditions. Population movements within Cox’s Bazar remain highly fluid, with increasing concentration in Ukhia, where the Government has allocated 3,000 acres for a new camp. People arrived at the new site before infrastructure and services could be established. Humanitarian partners are now building necessary infrastructure in challenging conditions, with extremely limited space
809,000 Rohingya Refugees (TOTAL)
650,000 Rohingya Refugees (IN BANGLADESH)
46% AID RECEIVED
Save Rohingya
Rohingya Camp Cox's bazar, Bangladesh The largest Refugee camp in the world Executive Director of NAHAR led a team to support on the ground and see the working progress.
The are now in need of emergency aid and relief services including food, basic medical support, tarps for shelter as well as animals, seeds and fertilizers for their sustainable wellbeing. Although there are lots of foreign interventions, the basic needs remain unfulfilled and insufficient. NAHAR has completed an onground survey regarding their present needs and found the following to be extremely necessary for their healthy living: -
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Emergency Relief
NAHAR provides emergency relief, such as helping to alleviate the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, USA. For three months, NAHAR distributed 100,000 bottled water to the needy people in Flint, Michigan� and then to insert pictures, which are attached
Number of people received Relief package in Shunamganj, Sylhet
Number of people received Relief package in Sirajgan
Number of people received Relief package in Rangpur
Number of people received Relief package in Kurigram
Number of people received Relief package in Jamalpur
Pure WATER SUPPLY When it comes to any kind of disaster the scarcity of pure water supply is a very common phenomenon. But with the increasing number of refugees in different camps of Cox’s Bazar, the lack of pure water supply remains a burning question. NAHAR went to the camps individually and set up 07 Deep tubewels to ensure that the refugees including the children and new borns get pure water supply in those camps.
SAFE SANITATION NAHAR has found out the need of safe sanitation in the camps are as necessary as anything. Without a safe sanitation process being established there, these refugee camps are going to face a lot of diseases and human life will be at stake. Although there are several other interventions, they are not adequate enough. So NAHAR went to the camps and established 10 Sanitary latrines for this community.
Health Care
FREE MEDICAL CAMP In this extreme cold and severe natural conditions, people are suffering from a lot of diseases like, Pneumonia, cough, Fever, Influenzas etc. NAHAR established free medical cmaps in the area and provided treatment and medicines to 430 people about their various diseases.
QURBANI FOR ALL With nearly 100% of the population of the refugees in the camps being muslim, the second largest religious celebration Eid-Ul-Adha remains uncelebrated for them. NAHAR organized to complete 05 Qurbanis (cows) on behalf of them and distributed the meats among all the refugees. This created a glimpse of joy and festivity among thousands of disasters in their life. Also, in Bangladesh, NAHAR distributed the meats among 2,500 families in 2017.
ORPHAN SPONSORSHIP Statistics show there are more than 37000 orphans now living in the Rohingya camps with no possessions, basic needs and education facility. Day by day the glimpse of a good future in getting darker for this children. NAHAR under their orphan sponsorship program could manage to sponsor 1000 Orphans and also provided education materials to 200 children.
CRP and NAHAR Partnership Aiming to learn disability Inclusion model and developing a partnership, Dr. Sayeed Chaowdhury, the president of NAHAR and Dr. Shariful Islam, the Executive Director visited the Center for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed- CRP in Bangladesh. D. Valerie Ann Taylor, the Founder, and Mr. Shafiqul Islam, the Executive Director of CRP welcome NAHAR team and showed their interest to work collaboratively for the betterment of the persons with disability and Rohingya people with short-term and long-term projects. Recently a partnership has been developed between CRP and NAHAR to support the disabled persons in Bangladesh.
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