Chapai Nawabganj Located in the north-west of Bangladesh, Chapai Nawabganj district lies under Rajshahi division, and has an area of 1,703 square kilometres. The main rivers in the area are the Ganges and Mahananda. It is bounded by West Bengal of India on the north, south and west, and Rajshahi and Naogaon districts on the east. Photo credit: BRAC/Shehzad Noorani

BRAC works at Chapai A Shantal woman walks through a rural street in Chapai Nawabganj district, Bangladesh. Nawabganj with quite a few components, such as microfinance, education (BEP), health, nutrition and At a glance Education population (HNPP), community empowerment (CEP), human (as of December, 2015) Primary schools 97 Pre-primary schools 99 rights and legal aid services Microfinance Community libraries 59 (HRLS), water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and skills Village organisations 1,670 Human rights and legal development. Members 105,512 Borrowers 45,622 aid services Progoti Human rights and legal Small enterprise clients 3,232 education (HRLE) shebikas 287 HRLE graduates 52,085 Tenant farmers’ development Legal aid clinics 5 project Village organisations 225 Water, sanitation and hygiene Money disbursed 234,100,000 Population covered 200,450 Committee members 416 General information Sanitation coverage 62% Health, nutrition Skills development Population 1,647,521 and population Number of master craft Unions 45 Health workers persons (MCPs) 49 Villages 1,135 (shasthya kormi) 36 Number of graduate learners 100 Children (0-15) 494,256 Health volunteers Number of disabled learners 12 Primary schools 678 (shasthya shebika) 360 Literacy rate 48% Community empowerment Social enterprises Hospitals 29 Community-based organisation Aarong production centre 2 NGOs 42 (polli shomaj) 152 BRAC dairy and food project Banks 17 Union-based organisation Chilling centres 5 Bazaars 89 (union shomaj) 19 Poultry 1 Popular theatre 5

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