BITA E-News Letter Climate Change Resilience th based theatre ‘Megher Vela” 18 Issue April-June 2019 This Issue Recently BITA theatre Core Team re-staged Megher Vela. Youth group have known the Labour Law ‘Megher Vela’ theatre depicts a heart-rending narration of from training coastal people who survives through continuous life-struggle at Training for youth persons on Youth and the backdrop of climate change. This theatre production is Gender based budget made on the basis of news and feature on sad stories of Caregivers training organized at Ramgati displaced people caused by climate change published in Cyclone preparation Rehearsal arranged different newspapers. Life-sketch of coastal Bangladesh and Community Assembly in Rohingya Camp Orissa of India are mostly similar. Noted Theatre Director of Parental care session arranged in Rohingya India Subodh Patnaik mainly prioritized his experience of Camp Orissya and coastal region of Chattogram centering climate Allowance disbursement in BITA-ROSC demonstrates changed lifestyles of people due to shrimp Ananda school culture hampering eco-system. Climate change resilience got They now know, how to make “Puppet” much importance in the theatre. Sisir Dutta worked in planning Program Quality Review Meeting arranged where Subodh patnaik played as Director of the theatre. BITA in CIAS project staff and grassroots artists performed. In this spell, Megher Refresher Training organized on IPC in CIAS Vela was displayed at different coastal upazilas like Sitakunda, project Banskhali, Anwara, Ukhiya, Teknaf of Chattogram and Cox’s They are very happy to receive “Foundation Bazar districts. This year, in the next performance, ‘Megher Training” Vela’ will be displayed in coastal areas of Khulna and Bagerhat. “Jegay Uthar Golpa” shake the community CTC members received the training cordially Find out the Disable Persons and Disaster tolerance materials distribution Banshkhali Upazila Counter Trafficking Committee (CTC)activation Meeting hold Tobacco sales centers in public places are to be shut in Chittagong City Some Organizations Visit BITA Youth group have known the Labour Law from training Action for Impact project of BITA organize a day long training program for youth group on 22 May 2019 at BRAC Learning Center in Chittagong. 20 youth persons attended in the training. The subject of the training were Labour Law, Youth Policy and youth skill development policy. Youth persons came from BITA working area 9 and 29 no ward of Chittagong City Corporation. Bappa Chowdhury, project coordinator of BITA LRP-41 project, Sumaiya Ferdous, Deputy Manager monitoring and Farhadur Rahim, inspiration of Action Aid conducted the training. Participants of the training were very happy to take such a training, because they have lack of knowledge about Labour Law, Youth Policy and youth skill development policy. They understood the subject very clearly. They will arrange such type of training in their area to create Training for youth persons consciousness of the youth. on Youth and Gender based budget BITA-Action for Impact project arranged a training on “Youth and Gender based budget” at the BRAC Learning Center in Chittagong. 24 youth persons from BITA working area 9 and 29 no ward attended in the training. Bappa Chowdhury, project coordinator and Kanta Mallik, Program Officer of BITA LRP-41 project discussed about the youth based budget. The youth personnel also express their opinion about the youth based budget. The content of the training were what is budget, types of budget, how the budget can be youth based and what is the input tracking. Participants make an action plan for implement the work in their own area. They were trying to understand about the budget. Caregivers training East Char Neyamat Community Disaster Management organized at Ramgati Committee (CDMC) group in Ramgoti upazila in Laxmipur district arranged a training on take care of older and disable persons in the family. 26 volunteer attended in the training. The training organized by CDMC member. They proposed BITA willingly to give the technical support of the training. It is one of the achievement of BITA. We could to motivate the people (CDMC member) to take any step which is better for the community. They are the very interested to arrange the training in which family have older person. The content of the training was the strategy and its practical side to take care of older and person with disable in the family. All of the volunteer assumed the strategy to take care of sick older persons in the family. They learnt about the physical exercise for maintain good health. Participants of the training were very happy to learn the strategy to take care of older and person with disable. BITA is working for older persons for a long time in Cyclone preparation Rehearsal arranged Laxmipur. By this time BITA worked for older persons on their happy life. IDR-2 project of BITA have arranged a rehearsal on preparation of cyclone mitigate in the Azad Market area of Ramgati upazila in Laxmipur district. The chief guest of the rehearsal was Md. Nasir Uddin, Union Parisad member of Char Gazi Union. 55 of children, youth and older person directly participated for 45 minutes in the rehearsal. It was a replication of protection practice of cyclone. About 720 male and 340 female watching the rehearsal in the field, they also learnt how to save themselves during cyclone. The event of the rehearsal were the preparedness before cyclone, what will do after cyclone and when will go to the shelter home. Mass people gathered the general knowledge of preparedness during cyclone time. The another attempt of the rehearsal was how all the people jointly face the situation during cyclone. They understood that everybody should help another during the cyclone time. They understood the meanings of signal, what will do in which signal moment. They formed a cyclone preparedness committee contained 50 members. The committee will help everybody during the cyclone. Community Assembly in Community Assembly held on 29th April 2019 Rohingya Camp in Rohingya camp with the stakeholder of Rohingya people whose are engaged in the human service activities in Unchiprang camp of Teknaf upazila. The program arranged by the Promoting Social Engagement Through Cultural Initiatives for Protective Environment (PSCIPE) project. The objectives of the program were, the necessity of strong social solidarity, child protection, protection from gender violence, encourage the community initiatives for integrated development and Gov’t, Non-Gov’t integrated help/coordination on service and protection. The slogan of the program was “sabai mile awaz tuli, shishu suraksha o samajik sanghati nishchit kari”. Camp Incharge, Assistant Camp Incharge, Majhi, Mentor, CBCPC, TFD group member, NGO representative attended in the program and participated in the discussion. Camp based program and achievement discussed in the program. About 300 camp people (youth girl 45, youth boys 130, female 25, male 100) attended in the program. Camp people proposed to continue the cultural based awareness program for child protection. A drama show named “ Bhul Theke Shiksha” and cultural program arranged in the program by the Rohingya cultural activist. Parental care session arranged in Rohingya Camp arental care session arranged in the Rohingya Camp on child rights, responsibility of parents and skill P development by the PSCIPE project of BITA. 4 session operated in every group by participatory approach those are child protection risk and service receive, general health and change of adolescent moment, child independence and expression of opinion, social discipline and volunteerism, education of internal dynasty and positive practice, moral learning etc. Total 118 session arranged in the 12 camp. About 2832 parents (male 216, female 2616) attended in those 12 sessions. Participants recognized their responsibility to the child protection. They understood the positive elements of their children take care and nursing as well as application skill have created. Parents expressed their opinion that those elements are very necessary for their children welfare and protection. They showed the eagerness to practice those elements in their family and community. Allowance disbursement in BITA-ROSC Ananda school 40 schools of Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project running in the Chattogram City Corporation area from 2017 by the management of BITA. The project supported by Primary and Mass Education ministry of Bangladesh Gov’t. Under privilege children from the slum area are the learners of these school. They learn here as free of cost. They also get an allowance from the project. Sonali Bank is disbursing this allowance from the beginning. In the month of June/2019, 14 branch of Sonali Bank in Chittagong disbursed this allowance among the learners of ROSC-II project for continue their education. About 5230 learners received the allowance. Learners, their guardians and CMC president were present at the allowance disbursement moment. Several brunches of Sonali Bank officers disbursed the Allowance in the School compound. Learners and their guardians are very happy to get the allowance by this time. The guardians express their opinion that it is an inspiration for the learners to continue their education. Four days workshop has been organized in the BITA-ROSC Ananda School on 13, 15, 20, 21th May at Beltoli school. The subject of the workshop was how They now to make “Puppet” from know, how the plastic wastage. The learners of the to make Ananda school are “Puppet” underprivileged children. For the social and family environment they cannot get any scope to delegate their creativity as they have creative mentality. So they do not think them important person of the society. They never think that they have an ability to give something to the society. They never think “We can”. BITA try to help the underprivileged children for delegate their creativity and to grow self confident within the them. Then the children should think that they have to do something for the society, for the family.