Feni

Located in the south-east of , lies under , with an area of 928 square kilometres. It is bounded by district and on the north, Noakhali and Chittagong districts on the south, State of India on the east and on the west. Photo credit: BRAC/Shehzad Noorani BRAC works at Feni with components, such as Rural women attend a human right and legal education (HRLE) class in a rural village. microfinance, education (BEP), health, nutrition and population (HNPP), community empowerment (CEP), human rights and legal aid services At a glance Migration (HRLS), migration, and skills Number of unions 13 (as of December, 2016) development. Number of Volunteers 13 Community-based organisation Microfinance (CBO) facilitators 2 Branches 23 Village organisations 1,839 Human rights and legal Members 107,191 aid services Borrowers 50,979 Human rights and legal education Progoti (HRLE) shebikas 193 Small enterprise clients 14,404 HRLE graduates 51,486 Legal aid clinics 5 General information Education Community empowerment Primary schools 38 Population 1,496,138 Pre-primary schools 48 Community-based organisation Sub-districts 6 Adolescent development (polli shomaj) 144 programme (ADP) centres 22 Union-based organisation Unions 43 Community libraries (union shomaj) 7 Villages 564 (gonokendras) 27 Popular theatre 6 Children (0-15) 166,474 Primary schools 528 Health, nutrition Skills development Literacy rate 60% and population Number of master craft Hospitals 11 Health workers persons (MCPs) 35 NGOs 45 (shasthya kormi) 46 Number of trades 5 Banks 18 Health volunteers Number of graduate learners 70 Bazaars 123 (shasthya shebika) 868

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