1. Awareness creation project on health, nutrition, sanitation and education

The field workers are adequately equipped to create awareness on health, nutrition, education, water sanitation etc. Creation of awareness is mandatory for all field workers. These field workers during their field visits discuss and disseminate new knowledge and information for the beneficiaries and target groups.

2. Advocacy project on the rights of the children and women

ISDCM initiates/ organize seminars, advocacy meetings with local government institutions its leader and community elite every year as a regular activity to promote the rights of the children and advocacy especially.

3. Micro finance program
This Project covers wide range of activities like:
i) Development of Organizations for the rural poor women
ii) Income generation activities through micro-finance activities
iii) Accumulation of thrift deposits
iv) Creation of awareness on education, health nutrition, water sanitation, child rights, and
v) Leadership development of poor women.

OBJECTIVES OF MFP:
The prime objectives of the micro-finance project of ISDCM are as follows:
• To empower the poor women of rural & urban areaspeople through creation of social awareness
• Develop poor women’s own organization for poverty reduction
• Improvement of quality of life.

MF Working area of ISDCM

4. Special village sanitation project

This Project is being implemented by ISDCM with its own Fund. Continuous efforts are being made by the field workers specially assigned for the purpose in addition to their normal works. In these villages mainly the beneficiaries of ISDCM project are oriented and motivated to use sanitary latrines and practice hygienic behavior. Credit support is also arranged for the beneficiaries to buy materials for sanitary latrines available at the DPHE production centers and private producers.

5. Family development project – funded by OBAT Helpers Inc., USA

The FDP project is being implemented by ISDCM with the financial assistance of OBAT Helpers USA.; for the people of the slums of Dhaka, Rangpur, Chattogram, Khulna, Saidpur & Bogura. There has been high level of poverty among the people of the slums which is characterized by low level of literacy, poor health, nutrition, education, environmental and sanitation conditions.

6. Health service project – – funded by OBAT Helpers Inc., USA

The objective of the project is to provide support primary health care services to slum dwellers of Saidpur for minor ailments like fever, diarrhea, malnutrition, Asthma, Pneumonia, cold, fever and worm infection etc. In some cases, patients are referred to the local Upazila Health Complex for better treatment. The organization has established linkage with local pathological center for test. Counseling and motivation on health hygiene is another component of the project. Periodically survey conducted in the slums to find out number of patients living in the slums. ISDCM encouraged the community to avail health services facilities from the Government Health Services. The organization has extended active support in observation of different health days like EPI, Vitamin-A, Breast feeding day etc.

7. Maternity Project – funded by OBAT Helpers Inc., USA

This program is being implemented by ISDCM with the financial assistance from OBAT Helpers Inc. USA. The prime objective of the program is to help ensure safe-delivery of pregnant women living in the camps of Saidpur Town. Major activities under this program includes: conducting continuous survey of pregnant women, organize workshop with their participation, give them health education, knowledge on pre-natal and anti-natal care and refer them to link organization for required clinical, pathological, ECG, USG, X-RAY and maternity services including caesarean operation for which fees and charges are paid by ISDCM from the project budget. Since ISDCM has no provision and facilities for maternity services, it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with local maternity service provider called “Surjer Hashi” which has established hospital facilities including qualified specialized doctors, nurses, OT etc. By arrangement ISDCM refers the pregnant women with its health cards to avail the maternity services from Surjer Hashi.

8. Employment generation and organization development

Through Employment Generation Project there has been considerable development of Empowerment and Entrepreneurship of the beneficiaries. It has been observed that the beneficiaries of the project are being empowered in the following ways:
i. They are selecting their leaders from among themselves;
ii. Conducting group meetings, writing minutes of their meetings, processing loan applications and informing each other about new development and issues;
iii. Fixing up agenda, identifying issues, moderating discussion of the group meetings and helping themselves; how to operate Bank Accounts etc.;
iv. Enhancing their contact with other service providers for their own benefit;
v. understanding the importance of organizing their own groups, need for group meetings and servicing;
vi. Increasingly sending their children to schools and getting their children immunized in large number to protect them from six diseases;
vii. Getting more information on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene behavior; and
viii. Disposing their household waste to fixed places and maintaining cleanliness within their families and also motivating their neighbors to do the same.

Through this project, some beneficiaries created their own sustainable employment and also for other poor people. Most of them conduct small trade or develop an entrepreneurship using loan from this project.

9. Internship project for graduate students

Many projects are being implemented by ISDCM. All these projects could not be evaluated due to limitation of resources. However, some studies were conducted in the past. Considering the development projects under implementation by ISDCM and limitation of resources, continuous initiative was taken to study some of its projects through internship program by engaging some university graduate students particularly from the faculty of Business Administration, Social Science and Economics. Every year such efforts are made. These graduate students were engaged in some studies.

10. Education and nutrition support for children and distressed families of the slum- Funded by OBAT Helpers Inc. USA

11. Micro Entrepreneurship program

Development of entrepreneurship has been gradually progressing from among the beneficiaries in the following ways:

• The beneficiaries are planning their own business in simple way and also managing effectively;
• Enhancing their capacities to invest on profitable business based on local marketing facilities and thereby developing entrepreneurship;
• Empowering themselves to manage their own business and practicing organizational disciplines particularly in term of repayment behavior, attending regular group meetings and savings; and
• Disseminating experience / knowledge to the group members and neighboring people as how to run a business.

It is encouraging to note that the group leaders have been continuously disseminating experience and knowledge with their fellow colleagues. Fifty-two group leaders have been provided special training on entrepreneurship development.

12. Computer training report for website:

ISDCM has introduced a Computer Training program at Dhamrai from 2017. The following programs are under the training module:

1. MS Word
2. MS Excel
3. MS Power Point
4. Internet browsing &
5. Windows 2007

We are following the training guide: