Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of poor Household towards elimination of their poverty –
(ENRICH) Program
Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of Poor Households (ENRICH)”, is a human-centered total development approach. It is a holistic approach to address the multidimensional poverty. The overall vision that underpins ENRICH is to work with poor, to create humanly dignified living standards and enjoy universal human rights. Basically an integrated approach of development having a strong relationship with the sustainable development goals that arouses a comprehensive development to ensure a balanced socio-economic and environmental sustainability. It clings to the motto of sustainable development which is “leaving no one behind”. ENRICH covers all aspect of human life from mothers’ womb to the grave. Main focus of the project is healthcare, education, capacity building, formation of social capital, employment generation within the communities both in agro-based and non-agricultural enterprises, jobs for the youth, infrastructural development, improved cooking stoves, solar home system, special savings programs, special projects for the ultra-poor, elderly persons with disability; baggers rehabilitation, demand-driven microcredit and community based programs etc.
Ghashful has been implementing the ENRICH program in Mekhal union of Hathazari Upozila under Chattogram district since 1st July 2013. In October 2015, the program has been extended at Guman Mardan union of the same Upozila.
The ENRICH program focuses on overall household development through the best possible utilization and enhancement of their existing resources and capabilities. The comprehensive approach for the development of ENRICH program comprises almost all the vital sectors that contribute the best to build up a more sustainable, healthier, safer and more prosperous society through encouraging and facilitating the poor to take part in the development practices with dignity and liberty.
Coverage area
Mekhal and Guman Mardan union under Hathazari Upozila in Chattogram district.
Objectives
- To increase access to education, health, and nutrition program;
- To empower the families through ensuring active participation in the income generating and other supportive activities;
- To develop linkage and work in joint collaboration with local GO-NGO authorities for poverty elevation;
- To motivate local people and institutions to work together for rural infrastructure development.
- To maximize utilization of the local resources to enhance capacity and assets.
Activities
- Health service delivery including eye care and nutrition.
- Education support;
- Sustainable income-generating activities;
- Rural infrastructure development, construct culvert, bamboo and wooden bridges; etc.
- Install sanitary latrine, install tube well for institution and household and ICS, Solar system
- Value chain development activities (cultivation of Bashak plant — a medicinal plant);
- Youth development activities;
- Job creation for rural youth;
- Establishment of SOMMRIDHO BARI (ENRICH House);
- Baggers rehabilitation.
- Social Advocacy and knowledge dissemination
ENRICH Program Output at a Glance: 2019 – 2020
| Sl. No | Particulars | Achievement (July 2019-june 2020) | Cumulative | ||
| Mekhal Union | Guman Mardan Union | Mekhal Union | Guman Mardan Union | ||
| 1 | No of villages | 9 | 3 | 9 | 3 |
| 2 | Total household | 7632 | 3048 | 7632 | 3048 |
| 3 | Health Card | 851 | 219 | 7890 | 1580 |
| 4 | Static clinic | 285 | 141 | 2049 | 893 |
| 5 | Static clinic patients | 3339 | 1461 | 27726 | 8885 |
| 6 | Satellite clinic | 60 | 30 | 521 | 228 |
| 7 | Patients in satellite clinic | 1953 | 794 | 16216 | 6071 |
| 7 | Office satellite | 32 | – | 188 | – |
| 8 | Patients in office satellite | 952 | – | 5627 | – |
| 9 | No. of health camps | 3 | 2 | 34 | 20 |
| 11 | Patients in the health camps | 908 | 727 | 15881 | 7408 |
| 12 | No. of eye camps | 3 | 1 | 22 | 6 |
| 13 | Patients in the eye camps | 754 | 264 | 4626 | 1391 |
| 14 | Cataract operation | 16 | 20 | 238 | 75 |
| 15 | Spectacles distribution | 00 | – | 358 | 91 |
| 16 | Diabetic tests | 1991 | 309 | 16758 | 2719 |
| 17 | Health awareness sessions | 576 | 216 | 5746 | 1490 |
| 18 | De-worming tablet distribution | 7313 | 4000 | 115798 | 27000 |
| 19 | Iron and Folic acid capsules | 8655 | 1590 | 76270 | 29890 |
| 20 | Postikona | 2444 | 1090 | 28314 | 10845 |
| 21 | Calcium (Miracle) | 9445 | 1835 | 34460 | 12090 |
| 22 | Public latrine complex | – | – | 3 | 29 |
| 23 | Sanitary latrine | – | – | 51 | 0 |
| 24 | 100% sanitation activities | – | – | 445 | 400 |
| 25 | Deep tube-well installed | – | – | 21 | 3 |
| 26 | Shallow tube-well installed | – | – | 29 | 26 |
| 27 | Two Rooms Washroom | – | – | 1 | – |
| 28 | Ring, Calvert installation | – | – | 25 | 4 |
| 29 | Drain construction | – | – | 9 | – |
| 30 | Graveyard guide wall | – | – | 1 | – |
| 31 | Roadside guide wall | – | – | 1 | – |
| 32 | Pond fringe Side walls | – | – | 1 | – |
| 33 | Connection roads | – | – | 1 | – |
| 34 | Vermin compost plant installed | – | 4 | 53 | 60 |
| 35 | Beggars rehabilitation | – | – | 12 | 8 |
| 37 | Bashok plantation | – | – | 36938 | – |
| 39 | Vegetable seed distribution (family) | 20 | 60 | 1040 | 120 |
| 40 | Plants distribution | 180 | 2500 | 8600 | 10185 |
| 41 | Biogas | – | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| 42 | Sammriddhi center | – | – | 5 | 9 |
| 43 | ENRICH built houses | – | – | 50 | 40 |
| 43 | No. of learning centers | – | – | 40 | 35 |
| 44 | Students in the center at present | – | – | 1200 | 856 |