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Add to Preferred SourcesIslamic Relief has been given the prestigious Bond Innovation Award, recognising the inventive approach to eliminating extreme poverty in Bangladesh.
Bond’s International Development Awards, held in London on 18 March 2019, showcased the best of the UK humanitarian and development sector.
Orphaned children and widows living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh are vulnerable to abuse, suffer from lack of food, struggle to meet school expenses, and find themselves socially excluded. The usual anti-poverty interventions often fail to help the ultra-poor.
The innovative Alternative Livelihoods for Orphaned Families programme, devised by Islamic Relief Bangladesh, takes a novel integrated approach, combining cash transfers with knowledge and skills building. It offers education and protection for orphaned children, while also providing their guardians with the funds, skills and business acumen needed to make their families self-sufficient within four years.
“We are honored and delighted to have received this recognition from Bond,” said Tufail Hussain, Interim UK Director of Islamic Relief UK.
The project, piloted in the Kawnia district where 43% of the population lives under the extreme poverty line, has been hugely successful. Participating families now bring home almost four times what they used to earn. Due to the remarkable success rate, the local government is now replicating Islamic Relief’s model across other parts of Bangladesh.
Original source: Islamic Relief
Published on 22 March 2019