Issue:5, January 2019 NEWSLETTER - Kazi Shahid Foundation
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Kazi Shahid Foundaon (KSF) Operaonal Head Quarter (OHQ) has been shiſted from Kamalapur, Dhakkamara to its own office premises in Dariapara, Panchagarh. KSF New Office Innaguration in July 2018 Publication of the Impact Assessment Report Visit to Milk Processing Plant & Mozzarella Cheese Factory In July, the CEO and other officials of KSF and Gemcon Group have visited Faruk Dairy Farm & Chill- ing Plant at Chatmohor, Pabna. Mr. Faruk is a success- ful beneficiary of the Programme for Community Development (PCD). He has built a chilling plant near his farm to process milk and to market it in different adjacent districts as well as in Dhaka. The chilling plant capacity is 600 liters of milk per day. Champion’s March: Nazma Begum Conference and Publication Program Highlights 1,345 Current Loanee Employment Generation in Panchagarh Area 40,000+ Cumulative Savings Balance in BDT Got Training on Dairy Farming and Vermi Composting New Interventions: 12 Million+ So Far 242 Batches Decreased Mortality Rate: For Cow From 5.00% to 0.75% For Calf From 8-10% to 0.67% So Far Liters Milk Collected from the Cooperative and Brought About Better Nutrition for Kids 2.1 Million Monthly Household Income Reached (95.32 USD) 8,000 BDT Kg of Cow Dung has been used for transforming the landscape of Bangladesh’s only organic tea garden, Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate 35 Million+ Bull Rearing Loans Distributed 503 Fiberglass Biogas Plants Installed & 30 KSF OHQ Innaguration by CEO The new office building inauguraon ceremony was held on 18 July, 2018. KSF Chief Execuve Officer (CEO) and all heads and management staffs of Gemcon Group Sub Business Units located in Panchgarh were present at the event. The new OHQ was built on a four acre land with a pond, many valuable trees and bare land. This premise has been designed and planned to be the showcasing model of all the KSF operang programs. NEWSLETTER Issue:5, January 2019 KSF R&D Manager , Officials & Staffs in front of of OHQ The team also visited Yummy Mozzarella Cheese Factory in Thakurgaon. This cheese factory produces 160-170 Kg of mozzarella cheese per day from 1600 liters of milk. Also produces ghee (comparavely lower quality) as by product from the cheese leſt over milk. These visits gave the future acon plan for ulizing the large amount of milk that is currently produced by the members of Kazi Shahid Foundaon. KSF has taken iniave to construct a mozzarella cheese factory at the new office premise in Dariapara, Panchagarh. This proj- ect will solve the issues regarding milk processing and proper ulizaon of excessive milk producon in Panchagarh. A five days social awareness campaign on "Importance of Hygiene" promong use of hand wash (Organikare Lemon Tender Hand Wash) and toilet cleaner (Flush) made by Bengal Herbal Garden Limited (BHGL), a sub business unit of Gemcon Group was organized for KSF beneficiaries of all six branches and KaziShahid Shik- hon Kendra (KSSK) in Panchagarh from 16th to 20th September 2018. Small discussion sessions with KSF members of different branches and KSF pre-school (KSSK) students were conducted by the officials of (BHGL) to grow the awareness of health and hygiene by the demonstraon of proper hand washing and toilet cleaning procedures, using hand wash and toilet cleaner. Members and staffs of KSF were parcipated in the campaign enthusiascally. Nazma Begum is one of the members of Kazi Shahid Foundaon who has become successful aſter a long sufferings and hard mes. She got married at the age of 12. Her husband was the only bread earner of the family who worked as a stone labor at Tetulia and his daily income was 400 to 500 taka at that me. Bearing family cost with this lile income was very hard for Nazma. Then she came to know about KSF’s dairy farming program from her brother in law. The loan repayment process of the organizaon seems very help- ful and easy for her. It was in 2012 when Nazma became member of KSF and received her first cow loan with a calf worth 25000 taka. From that moment she never had to look back to her miserable past. She sold the cow in 40000 taka and successfully repaid her loan. Aſter taking second cow loan from KSF she sold it in 64,000 taka. Currently she in on her third tenure. She has two cows (one of them is pregnant) and two calves currently worth 2, 50,000 taka. All her cows are hybrid. She gets 15 to 17 liters milk per day from her dairy. Her monthly income is approxi- mately 17,000 taka from the dairy. She and her husband bought agricultural land about one acre, built brick layered building for her family and also the dairy shed. She has also built healthy toilet and bathroom because she wants her family to be healthy. She has planted paddy, corn and other plants in her agricultural land to feed her family and dairy. From here she has approximate 60,000 taka of yearly income.Moreover, when she learned about KSF’s Biogas Program and the benefits of it, she persuaded her family members and installed a fiberglass biogas plant. Nazma Begum plans to use the cow dung for organic farming and to minimize the wastage of cow dung since she has installed her biogas plant just beside her farming land. She can now feed her family well and take extra care to her dairy. She has one daughter and two sons. Her elder son is currently studying Hon’s, daughter is an SSC candidate and younger one studies in class 5. Though Nazma Begum could not receive educaon, she dreams of educang all her children so that they can have beer future. All the people from her village praise her success and respect her. She believes that woman has the capability to overcome all the obstacles and social sgmas if she has enough courage and confidence. Women in her surrounding area are encouraged by her success and want to be a successful, courageous and confident dairy entrepreneur, mother and wife like her. Kazi Shahid Foundaon (KSF) started working with the vision of sustainable development and economic growth and sll working with full energy to upliſt and empower people’s lives. Kazi Shaid Foundaon (KSF) emerged as an independent Socio-economic venture promong a dairy cow rearing model that linked with com- mercial organic tea farming and livelihood improvement of thee poor women and their family at Panchagarh. Income Generaon & Livelihood: Following an in depth market analysis, it has been found that parci- pants who received a package of assets such as cows, buffaloes, goats, sheep and poultries; their work producvity have significantly increased and household assets aſter joining KSF. Also, the total number of cale and poultry has significantly risen from TK 63,000 to about TK 2, 27,000 on average. Dairy Entrepreneurship: Kazi Shahid Foundaon (KSF) has introduced one of the unique meth- ods of repayment of loan through milk and cow dung rather than the convenonal repayment methods. All the respondents unanimously believe that the primary service of KSF is to provide dairy cow for rear- ing since all of them get 54 hours of training for cow rearing from KSF. Also, the cows receive all vaccines mely from KSF as well. Conse- quently, the milk producon volume from the cows reared by KSF Women’s Status in Family & Society: KSF believes in women empowerment; hence all the respondents of KSF are female. Women’s parcipaon in decision making, asset ownership and control over loan increased since KSF started working with them and training them. Women empowerment has increased both at household level and in society to some extent since more than 50% of women are taking financial decisions jointly with their husbands. Women are helping and feeding their family by cow rearing which promotes their empowerment and confidence. members is much higher than the cows reared by non-KSF members. Change in Occupaon: Due to occupaonal change, ultra-poor women get access to high paying and less volale flow of earning. Access to more stable and secure employment leads to posive expansion of various occupaon choices. The respondents before joining KSF was homemaker (100%), then dramacally changed aſter joining KSF. Majority of the members are now small farm owners (81%), while others are either medium farm owners (14%) or large farm owners (5%). Resilience & Month of Stress: KSF, is an organizaon which not only work for its personal interests but also teach its beneficiaries how to handle difficult situaons severe disease/ accident, family problem, financial hazard, natural calamies, death of livestock, inability of loan repayment etc. The beneficiaries are well trained and aware of usage of house- hold savings and spending of cow loan (from KSF for only its members). It has been found that the non-KSF members are more vulnerable during the me of crisis than the KSF members. Moreover, it has been esmat- ed that non-KSF members could only recover 72% of their total assets during natural disasters whereas KSF member could recover 100% of their total assets. Research and Development Manager of Kazi Shahid Foundation attended the 3rd Annual Sustainable Development Conference organized by University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh held on 20-21 October, 2018 in Dhaka Bangladesh. She had presented a paper on “Bio-fertilizer, the building blocks of a sustainable busi- ness model” under Green Economy theme. A paper titled, “An innovative approach towards sustainable energy in rural Bangladesh”, has been pub- lished by the American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 2039, 020056 (2018); doi: Mozzarella Cheese Factory in Tahkurgaon Visited by CEO & other officials of KSF & Gemcon Group Yummy Mozzarella Cheese Making on the Process Nazma Begum: Busy, Happy & Contented with Her Houseold Chores Nazma Begum’s Hygienic Sanitary Latrine Nazma Begum’s Biogas Plant has been Recently Installed Impact Assesment Report of KSF Income Level of KSF & Non- KSF Members Dairy Entrepreneurship Milk Production Change in Occupation Edit & Compilation : Ayesha Tasnim Mostafa GBK Boigas Program Visit KSF team lead by the CEO visited Biogas Program of Gram Bikash Kendra (GBK) in Dinajpur. GBK operates and pioneers the fiber- glass biogas plants in Dinajpur and some other districts of Bangladesh. They are partner organization of Palli Karma Sahayak Foun- dation (PKSF) and Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL). Kazi Shahid foundation is also partner for both organiza- tions for its Dairy Cooperative Program and Biogas Program respectively. KSF distributes fiberglass biogas plants to the beneficia- ries for clean cooking and healthy living. GBK Biogas Program Visit by CEO & Other Officials of KSF & Gemcon Group Social Awareness Campaign on "Importance of Hygiene" Helath & Hygiene Capaign at KSSK Health & Hygiene Campaign with KSF Beneficiaries Visit of Tilda Swinton and DLF Guests Ms. Swinton with the Students of KSSK In November 11-12, world famous Oscar winning actor Ms. Tilda Swinton paid a visit to the Kazi Shahid Shik- hon Kendra in Madhupara and the Kazi Shahid Foundaon Rawshanpur branch shamity members in Tetulia, Panchagarh. This was her second visit to KSSK and KSF. She was amazed by the creavity and enthusiasm of the KSSK students. She played, made art and craſts and sang songs with the children. Ms. Swinton wondered to know about the struggles that the KSF beneficiaries went through to rise from zero to hero. These women have become the pioneers of their communies. Their success stories touched her heart. This me Ms. Swinton was accompanied by Ms. Juditha Ohlmacher, Director of Gemcon Group and some honorable guests of Dhaka Literature Fesval (DLF). They had open and cordial discussions with the members and shared their life experiences. The honorable guests also visited some households where the members treated them with farm fresh milk, tea and cookies. Ms. Swinton hoped to visit KSSK students and the members KSF again in near future. Documentary Shooting Ms. Tilda Swinton brought her shoong crews for the audio visual documentaon of KSSK students and KSF beneficiaries’ acvies as part of her new upcoming documentary movie project. The crews shoot different acvies of KSF beneficiary’s daily life, interviewed some members about their life changing experiences and KSSK students’ teaching and learning process, took interviews of the teacher for the documentary. At Kazi Shahid Shahid Shikhon Kendro Documentation on Activities of KSF Beneficiaries Ms Swinton is Talking to KSF Beneficiaries 3rd CSD Annual Conference on Sustainable Development 2018
Transcript of Issue:5, January 2019 NEWSLETTER - Kazi Shahid Foundation
Kazi Shahid Foundation (KSF) Operational Head Quarter (OHQ) has been shifted from Kamalapur, Dhakkamara to its own office premises in Dariapara, Panchagarh.
KSF New Office Innaguration in July 2018
Publication of the Impact Assessment Report
Visit to Milk Processing Plant & Mozzarella Cheese Factory
In July, the CEO and other officials of KSF and Gemcon Group have visited Faruk Dairy Farm & Chill-ing Plant at Chatmohor, Pabna. Mr. Faruk is a success-ful beneficiary of the Programme for Community Development (PCD). He has built a chilling plant near his farm to process milk and to market it in different adjacent districts as well as in Dhaka. The chilling plant capacity is 600 liters of milk per day.
Champion’s March: Nazma Begum
Conference and Publication
Program Highlights
1,345Current Loanee
Employment Generation
in Panchagarh Area
40,000+
Cumulative Savings Balance in BDT
Got Training on Dairy Farming and Vermi
Composting
New Interventions:
12 Million+
So Far
242Batches
Decreased Mortality Rate:
For Cow From 5.00% to
0.75%For Calf From 8-10% to
0.67%
So Far
Liters Milk Collected from the
Cooperative and Brought About
Better Nutrition for Kids
2.1Million
Monthly Household Income
Reached
(95.32 USD)8,000 BDT
Kg of Cow Dung has been used for transforming the landscape of Bangladesh’s
only organic tea garden, Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate
35 Million+
Bull Rearing Loans Distributed
503
Fiberglass Biogas Plants Installed
&
30
KSF OHQ Innaguration by CEO
The new office building inauguration ceremony was held on 18 July, 2018. KSF Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and all heads and management staffs of Gemcon Group Sub Business Units located in Panchgarh were present at the event. The new OHQ was built on a four acre land with a pond, many valuable trees and bare land. This premise has been designed and planned to be the showcasing model of all the KSF operating programs.
NEWSLETTERIssue:5, January 2019
KSF R&D Manager , Officials & Staffs in front of of OHQ
The team also visited Yummy Mozzarella Cheese Factory in Thakurgaon. This cheese factory produces 160-170 Kg of mozzarella cheese per day from 1600 liters of milk. Also produces ghee (comparatively lower quality) as by product from the cheese left over milk.
These visits gave the future action plan for utilizing the large amount of milk that is currently produced by the members of Kazi Shahid Foundation. KSF has taken initiative to construct a mozzarella cheese factory at the new office premise in Dariapara, Panchagarh. This proj-ect will solve the issues regarding milk processing and proper utilization of excessive milk production in Panchagarh.
A five days social awareness campaign on "Importance of Hygiene" promoting use of hand wash (Organikare Lemon Tender Hand Wash) and toilet cleaner (Flush) made by Bengal Herbal Garden Limited (BHGL), a sub business unit of Gemcon Group was organized for KSF beneficiaries of all six branches and KaziShahid Shik-hon Kendra (KSSK) in Panchagarh from 16th to 20th September 2018.Small discussion sessions with KSF members of different branches and KSF pre-school (KSSK) students were conducted by the officials of (BHGL) to grow the awareness of health and hygiene by the demonstration of proper hand washing and toilet cleaning procedures, using hand wash and toilet cleaner. Members and staffs of KSF were participated in the campaign enthusiastically.
Nazma Begum is one of the members of Kazi Shahid Foundation who has become successful after a long sufferings and hard times. She got married at the age of 12. Her husband was the only bread earner of the family who worked as a stone labor at Tetulia and his daily income was 400 to 500 taka at that time. Bearing family cost with this little income was very hard for Nazma. Then she came to know about KSF’s dairy farming program from her brother in law. The loan repayment process of the organization seems very help-ful and easy for her.
It was in 2012 when Nazma became member of KSF and received her first cow loan with a calf worth 25000 taka. From that moment she never had to look back to her miserable past. She sold the cow in 40000 taka and
successfully repaid her loan. After taking second cow loan from KSF she sold it in 64,000 taka. Currently she in on her third tenure. She has two cows (one of them is pregnant) and two calves currently worth 2, 50,000 taka. All her cows are hybrid. She gets 15 to 17 liters milk per day from her dairy. Her monthly income is approxi-mately 17,000 taka from the dairy. She and her husband bought agricultural land about one acre, built brick layered building for her family and also the dairy shed. She has also built healthy toilet and bathroom because she wants her family to be healthy. She has planted paddy, corn and other plants in her agricultural land to feed her family and dairy. From here she has approximate 60,000 taka of yearly income.Moreover, when she learned about KSF’s Biogas Program and the benefits of it, she persuaded her family members and installed a fiberglass biogas plant. Nazma Begum plans to use the cow dung for organic farming and to minimize the wastage of cow
dung since she has installed her biogas plant just beside her farming land. She can now feed her family well and take extra care to her dairy. She has one daughter and two sons. Her elder son is currently studying Hon’s, daughter is an SSC candidate and younger one studies in class 5.
Though Nazma Begum could not receive education, she dreams of educating all her children so that they can have better future. All the people from her village praise her success and respect her. She believes that woman has the capability to overcome all the obstacles and social stigmas if she has enough courage and confidence. Women in her surrounding area are encouraged by her success and want to be a successful, courageous and confident dairy entrepreneur, mother and wife like her.
Kazi Shahid Foundation (KSF) started working with the vision of sustainable development and economic growth and still working with full energy to uplift and empower people’s lives. Kazi Shaid Foundation (KSF) emerged as an independent Socio-economic venture promoting a dairy cow rearing model that linked with com-mercial organic tea farming and livelihood improvement of thee poor women and their family at Panchagarh.
Income Generation & Livelihood:Following an in depth market analysis, it has been found that partici-pants who received a package of assets such as cows, buffaloes, goats, sheep and poultries; their work productivity have significantly increased and household assets after joining KSF. Also, the total number of cattle and poultry has significantly risen from TK 63,000 to
about TK 2, 27,000 on average. Dairy Entrepreneurship:Kazi Shahid Foundation (KSF) has introduced one of the unique meth-ods of repayment of loan through milk and cow dung rather than the conventional repayment methods. All the respondents unanimously believe that the primary service of KSF is to provide dairy cow for rear-ing since all of them get 54 hours of training for cow rearing from KSF. Also, the cows receive all vaccines timely from KSF as well. Conse-quently, the milk production volume from the cows reared by KSF
Women’s Status in Family & Society:KSF believes in women empowerment; hence all the respondents of KSF are female. Women’s participation in decision making, asset ownership and control over loan increased since KSF started working with them and training them. Women empowerment has increased both at household level and in society to some extent since more than 50% of women are taking financial decisions jointly with their husbands. Women are helping and feeding their family by cow rearing which promotes their empowerment and confidence.
members is much higher than the cows reared by non-KSF members.
Change in Occupation: Due to occupational change, ultra-poor women get access to high paying and less volatile flow of earning. Access to more stable and secure employment leads to positive expansion of various occupation choices. The respondents before joining KSF was homemaker (100%), then dramatically changed after joining KSF. Majority of the members are now small farm owners (81%), while others are either medium farm owners (14%) or large farm owners (5%).
Resilience & Month of Stress:KSF, is an organization which not only work for its personal interests but also teach its beneficiaries how to handle difficult situations severe disease/ accident, family problem, financial hazard, natural calamities, death of livestock, inability of loan repayment etc. The beneficiaries are well trained and aware of usage of house-hold savings and spending of cow loan (from KSF for only its members). It has been found that the non-KSF members are more vulnerable during the time of crisis than the KSF members. Moreover, it has been estimat-ed that non-KSF members could only recover 72% of their total assets during natural disasters whereas KSF member could recover 100% of their total assets.
Research and Development Manager of Kazi Shahid Foundation attended the 3rd Annual Sustainable Development Conference organized by University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh held on 20-21 October, 2018 in Dhaka Bangladesh. She had presented a paper on “Bio-fertilizer, the building blocks of a sustainable busi-ness model” under Green Economy theme.
A paper titled, “An innovative approach towards sustainable energy in rural Bangladesh”, has been pub-lished by the American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 2039, 020056 (2018); doi:
Mozzarella Cheese Factory in Tahkurgaon Visited by CEO & other officials of KSF & Gemcon Group
Yummy Mozzarella Cheese Making on the Process
Nazma Begum: Busy, Happy & Contented with Her Houseold Chores
Nazma Begum’s Hygienic Sanitary Latrine Nazma Begum’s Biogas Plant has been Recently Installed
Impact Assesment Report of KSF
Income Level of KSF & Non- KSF Members
Dairy Entrepreneurship Milk Production
Change in Occupation
Edit & Compilation :Ayesha Tasnim Mostafa
GBK Boigas Program Visit
KSF team lead by the CEO visited Biogas Program of Gram Bikash Kendra (GBK) in Dinajpur. GBK operates and pioneers the fiber-glass biogas plants in Dinajpur and some other districts of Bangladesh. They are partner organization of Palli Karma Sahayak Foun-dation (PKSF) and Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL). Kazi Shahid foundation is also partner for both organiza-tions for its Dairy Cooperative Program and Biogas Program respectively. KSF distributes fiberglass biogas plants to the beneficia-ries for clean cooking and healthy living.
GBK Biogas Program Visit by CEO & Other Officials of KSF & Gemcon Group
Social Awareness Campaign on "Importance of Hygiene"
Helath & Hygiene Capaign at KSSK Health & Hygiene Campaign with KSF Beneficiaries
Visit of Tilda Swinton and DLF Guests
Ms. Swinton with the Students of KSSK
In November 11-12, world famous Oscar winning actor Ms. Tilda Swinton paid a visit to the Kazi Shahid Shik-hon Kendra in Madhupara and the Kazi Shahid Foundation Rawshanpur branch shamity members in Tetulia, Panchagarh. This was her second visit to KSSK and KSF. She was amazed by the creativity and enthusiasm of the KSSK students. She played, made art and crafts and sang songs with the children. Ms. Swinton wondered to know about the struggles that the KSF beneficiaries went through to rise from zero to hero. These women have become the pioneers of their communities. Their success stories touched her heart. This time Ms. Swinton was accompanied by Ms. Juditha Ohlmacher, Director of Gemcon Group and some honorable guests of Dhaka Literature Festival (DLF). They had open and cordial discussions with the members and shared their life experiences. The honorable guests also visited some households where the members treated them with farm fresh milk, tea and cookies. Ms. Swinton hoped to visit KSSK students and the members KSF again in near future.
Documentary Shooting
Ms. Tilda Swinton brought her shooting crews for the audio visual documentation of KSSK students and KSF beneficiaries’ activities as part of her new upcoming documentary movie project. The crews shoot different activities of KSF beneficiary’s daily life, interviewed some members about their life changing experiences and KSSK students’ teaching and learning process, took interviews of the teacher for the documentary.
At Kazi Shahid Shahid Shikhon Kendro
Documentation on Activities of KSF Beneficiaries
Ms Swinton is Talking to KSF Beneficiaries
3rd CSD Annual Conference on Sustainable Development 2018
