ASP Foundation has established a Rohingya Advocacy Center (RAC) to empower displaced communities by building their capacity to advocate for their rights, enhance protection mechanisms, and preserve cultural identity through strategic partnerships and grassroots engagement. We are grateful to the Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation (SDC) and the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) for their generous support in funding the RAC Pilot Project.
Overall Objective: To increase the resilience and confidence of the Rohingya communities through capacity building and support in leadership, advocacy, and cultural preservation.
Specific Objectives:
Establish the Rohingya Advocacy Center (RAC): Develop a fully operational advocacy center that facilitates community-driven initiatives by providing training, establishing linkages with stakeholders, and addressing service gaps through collaboration.
Strengthen Community-Led Advocacy: Provide leadership, advocacy, and soft skills training to empower community members, particularly youth and women, to advocate for their rights and engage in local, national, and international advocacy efforts.
Enhance Support (Protection and Security): Identify, assess, and refer vulnerable community members, particularly those at risk of trafficking or exploitation, to relevant services, including legal aid, health services, and psychosocial support.
Healthcare on Wheels” project by the ASP foundation and patronized by Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA), has been conceived to offer medical consultation, conduct clinical tests and supply medicines to people who are living in the slums area, street vendors and remote areas of Bangladesh. “Healthcare on wheels” will be mobile one stop solution for the vulnerable society who cannot reach hospital for basic health checkup.
The objective of the project is to extend healthcare facilities free of cost to the needy at their doorstep. The van/transport will be deployed in each area as per the Bangladesh Medical Guidelines. Along with consultation space, the facilities in the transport include consulting room, a well – equipped lab with diagnostic facilities, medicine dispensation, areas to provide diagnostic care of blood, glucose, pregnancy testing and so on. The van/transport is also equipped to create awareness programmes for child health, geriatric and communicable diseases and to educate society on various lifestyle changes that impact their health.
Magic Board School is an institution situated in Nazirartek, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Established in 2023, the school addresses the need for accessible, elementary education among underprivileged children.
The core mission of Magic Board School is to provide free, high-quality education to children, with a particular focus on those from disadvantaged backgrounds - especially the socioeconomically challenged children engaged in child labour in the coastal region facing environmental displacement due to climate crisis. The institution aims to cultivate curiosity, creativity, and personal growth among its students.
‘Health Cannot Wait’
- ASP FOUNDATION