Located on the banks of the Arpangacyhhia river, Satkhira is a district in . The region also shares a notable part of the famous forest. BRAC runs some of its core programmes such as microfinance, education (BEP), health, nutrition and population (HNPP), and water, sanitation

and hygiene (WASH), among Photo credit: BRAC others in this district. Aftermath situation of in Satkhira district Of them, microfinance is the largest programme offering three types of loans – dabi (microloan), progoti (enterprise loans) and tenant farmers’ development loans. human rights and legal aid services There are about 200,000 members (HRLS), disaster, environment and At a glance and 50,000 borrowers. BEP climate change (DECC), agriculture As of December, 2014 stands as the second largest and food security (AFSP), programme in this district, running community empowerment (CEP) 400 schools, the adolescent programmes, and BRAC Dairy Microfinance development programme (ADP), enterprise successfully in this area. Village organisations (VOs) 2,096 and gonokendros (community Members 128,375 library). HNPP is another core Borrowers 47,661 programme running successfully in General information Progoti this district. It is a combination of (small enterprise clients) 3,995 preventive, curative, rehabilitative Population 1,985,959 Tenant farmer development and promotional health services, Unions 78 programme focusing on improving maternal, Villages 1,603 neonatal and child health (IMNCS), VOs 446 Children (0-5) 746,093 Population covered 23,962 and combating communicable Primary schools 622 diseases and common health Literacy rates 52.1% problems, forming the key BEP Hospitals 11 component of essential healthcare. Pre-primary schools 300 Banks 28 WASH mainly deals with water Primary schools 69 and sanitation services. It has Bazaars 25 ADP centres 81 achieved 85 per cent sanitation NGOs 65 Community libraries 59 coverage by installing sanitary latrines in schools. BRAC also runs

www.brac.net HNPP Health volunteers 1,695 Health workers 285

CEP Polli shomaj 273 Union shomaj 23 Popular theatre teams 8

WASH Sanitation coverage 85% Sanitary latrines installed in schools 48

HRLS Human rights and legal education (HRLE) shebikas 774 HRLE graduates 80,860 Legal aid clinics 10

AFSP Agricultural extension programme Population covered 17,100 Crops introduced to the area 7

DECC Centre 4

BRAC Enterprises Dairy (Chilling centres) 10

Although every effort has been made to include and verify the accuracy of relevant information in this fact sheet, users are urged to check independently on matters of specific interest. Report any discrepancies/suggestions to [email protected]. This document was last updated on 31 December 2014, is revised yearly and made available on www.brac.net/visitors.