PARITTRAN

Sobre nosotros

In 1993 a group of Dalit students created PATTRITRAN out of the Dalit Students’ Association. The meaning of this Bengali word is ‘liberation' or 'salvation.’ PARITTRAN is a promise and a movement, for the Dalits and by the Dalits. PARITTRAN is working for the Dalit and untouchable people of Bangladesh

Vision:
To build a just society where every people has equal opportunity to explore their full potential in rights and dignity manner

Mission:
Promoting wellbeing of marginalized and disadvantaged community specially Dalit, Excluded and Indigenous people (children, youth, and women) through a holistic development approach.

Objectives:
• Strengthening capacity development of the Dalit and Excluded people on rights to live in peaceful society with dignity.
• Enhancing economic empowerment through ensuring decent job for promotion of sustainable livelihood and food security.
• Increasing capacity of the targeted people on disaster risk reduction, emergency response, climate change adaptation and disaster resilience.
• Promoting gender equality, child and youth development and realization of child rights.

Thematic Area
• Dalit, Excluded and Indigenous People’s Rights (DEiPR)
• Child and Youth Development Program (CYDP)
• Climate Action and Disaster Response Program (CADR)
• Employment and sustainable Livelihood Program (ESLP)
• Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Program.
• Good Governance and Peace Building.

What we do
PARITTRAN, a community-based non-government organization, is the first dalit social action group in Bangladesh working for the empowerment of Dalit communities. The Social action group (PARITTRAN) is committed towards building a strong line of leadership for the Dalit Movement. The SAG is dedicated to building the capacities of our people through:
• Progress reviews and education support
• Mass awareness campaigns
• The developing of information, education and communications materials
• The development of a video documentary film on the Dalits
• Evidence-based lobbying and advocacy
• Meetings to discuss findings on violence against Dalits
• Media campaign workshops, which are conducted periodically.
Additionally, the organisation builds skills through leadership workshops for Dalit women, as well as cluster-level meetings.
They have achieved success at the community, state, and institutional levels that indicate sustainable changes in the lives of Dalits in Bangladesh. These successes include the fact that the government revised a Dalit development policy, with an 80 per cent quota in cleaning jobs and the declaration for special quota for other unemployed Dalit youth. In addition, one per cent of students at Dhaka University are now required to be Dalit students.
The national human right commission, civil society organizations and the law commission undertook also drafted an anti-discriminatory law. There are 54 district committees of the Bangladesh Dalit Parishad (the national level Dalits' right based-independent platform). Seven divisional committees and one central committee have been developed and nurtured by Parittran.

Milan Das is the Executive Director at PARITTRAN.

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