Our Organization

Unnayan Uddog is a national, non-profit, non-political and non-governmental organization. It first came into being in 1991 as a local NGO, namely Uddog with a view to consolidating people’s power and to use educational institutions as development vehicle. Our social history contains a lot of events that educational institutions and different other social organizations respond spontaneously during natural disasters or any emergency of the society. But the responses have never been consolidated because of lack of appreciation of their role once crisis is over. The teachers and students of the educational institutions have great influence in our society. Still they are the most acceptable community leaders in their respective communities. Besides, they are more familiar with the nature and dimension of the problems of their own communities where they live in. Their feelings are more genuine than that of outsiders which can inspire them in serving their respective communities with more dedication. To justify the idea Unnayan Uddog involved a rural college to implement a development programme through it. The lessons learned from the pilot intervention were that if they are organized under a network, they could implement development programmes successfully and in a cost-effective manner. To the given context, it is possible to involve mass people in the overall development process at any places in any country. Experience shows that the paramount problems i.e. over population, mass illiteracy, lack of primary health care and sanitation system, malnutrition, environmental degradation, paramount child labor etc. could be solved successfully through this way in a relatively shorter period of time. The approach can also be taken away the claim that our youths alienate themselves from their eternal rural abode after completing their higher education and become urban minded. They hardly look back towards their origin. This might have been due to lack of coordination between our education system and development efforts. This attitude may be changed if our tender-hearted school/college children are made to take part in development activities at community level since their boyhood. They have the spirit to conduct social services latent in their mind. Thus they would be worthy citizen of the country. In 1997, it was renamed and re-registered as Unnayan Uddog. Since then it has been working giving emphasis on volunteerism and community participation in implementing action programmes. ----------------