Actioneers

CommunityAction focuses more on Actioneers than its actions. Through their various social service actions and training actions, Actioneers seek to train themselves to be moral, influential and professional.

CommunityAction hopes to make each Actioneer an asset for Bangladesh and the whole world.

Philosophy

CommunityAction(CA) is a very philosophy-driven organisation! Our,

Vision: Moral Mission: Influential Value: Professional

Action: Guardians in The Dark

We assist visual impaired students by helping them completing their assignments and to prepare for their exams. We do so by voice recording lessons from their textbooks and get admitted into institutions. We are building Bangladesh's first text book based library for them and doing pioneering work with them. As one example of our success, the only blind student studying at the Teachers’ Training College is because of our efforts.

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Our Strength

We focus on training Actioneers. We concentrate on actions with long term impact. We highlight creative, low cost solutions to big problems. We are able to think outside the box  

Action: Step-Up

Action: Step-Up, where an unprivileged needy student has been taken care of under a privileged student Actioneer through monthly scholarship and other stuffs. Currently, we have 17 candidates from different region in Bangladesh.

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Action: Stand-Up

This action is designed to help families become economically self-sufficient. We work with individuals and families to help them implement their plans and thus achieve their goals. We keep extensive case reports and also follow-up on the progress. We run this project mainly by using  Zakah funds, since, unlike the current practices, the real goal of Zakah is to promote economic self-sufficiency.

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Action: Light-Up

Since February 2010, Actioneers have been working with impoverished rural school. The picture shows the children, live in Dhunot, Bogura. Their village does not even have electricity. These were their faces when we used a projector to show educational clips on their wall!

Action: Piyaju-Beguni

During the month of Ramadan, we locate poor and needy people, especially children, who work various jobs while fasting throughout the day, and provide them with food and drink during the time of iftaar. The number of people we were privileged to share our iftaar with went beyond 1000 in 2009, inn 2010, we crossed the 3000 mark in 18 days and in 2011 we were able to distribute among 10,000 kids!