Welcome from Shapla Mohila SangsthaSMS, Bangladesh

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Welcome from Shapla Mohila Sangstha(SMS),
Bangladesh

• SMS is a women leaded organization established in
  1997 mandate to work with distressed women in
  Bangladesh

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Legal Identity

• SMS is registered with Women Affairs Department
  under the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare,
  Government of Bangladesh
• SMS is also registered from NGO Affairs Bureau
  under Chief Advisors Office, Government of
  Bangladesh(formerPrime Ministers Office)

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VISION

• A world free of poverty and injustice where women
  and children be a part of development and benefit
  for all

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Organizations MISSION

• Established Rights and Power to practice and
  access among women and children, for those who
  have less.

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VALUES

• UNITY
• PARTNERSHIP
• RESPECT
• DIGNITY
• INTERGRITY
• GENDER SENSIBILITY

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Area of Interest

• SMS mandate is work women and children who are in
  distressed
• From its inception SMS started working to
  established rights of SEX WORKERS
• Access to health care facilities
• Mainstreaming children of sex workers
• Mobility and Health
• HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care
• Right to Education
• Emergency Response

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Partnership

• COMMUNITY
• NATIONAL
• INTERNATIONAL
• NETWORKS AND FORUM
• CIVIL SOCIETY

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Why is Mobility and Health

• SMS works with Reverie women ( especially who
  lives in Char( river islands) far distance from
  the mainland (about 10 -15 km) without having any
  health care facilities
• Partnership with Civil Society
• Enhance KAPB
• Access to Local Government Resources
• Reduce vulnerability through community owned
  engine boat

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CASE STUDY

• Rokeya Begum , a wife of day labor having 4
  daughters and 3 sons become pregnant again
• She lives 12 km far from Mainland and need to 3
  to 4 hours for walking
• Means of transport are walking in dry season and
  engine boat in rainy season.
• She never gets care and support during her
  pregnancy , she used to seek help from
  traditional birth attendance ( non-trained).
• After giving birth Rokey was died for unsafe
  deliver without treatment.

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Learning from Case Study and SMS interventions

• Share case with other community members
  (especially women)
• Community members( men and women) analyses
  alternative solutions to save lives of pregnant
  women
• SMS and community members talked with Civil
  Surgeon and influence to sent one doctor
  biweekly.
• SMS share cost of medicines ( if emergency)
• Published the case in local Newspapers
• Social Action Group formed with Civil Society in
  emergency rescue, especially pregnant women and
  flood.

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Thank you

• Dhonnobad