Moyrabandh Gram Bikash Kendra

Moyrabandh Gram Bikash Kendra (MGBK), a registered NGO situated in the Bankura district, addresses the challenges faced by impoverished villagers deal Read moreing with drought-related miseries, food insecurity, and acute poverty. Originating from a critical need, a group of youth and relief workers formed the organization to develop alternative strategies for disaster management, poverty alleviation, education, gender equity, human rights, health care, and mainstreaming socio-culturally oppressed and economically exploited communities. The organization prioritizes intervention through grassroots initiatives, focusing on capacity building to improve the socio-economic situation and create a robust civil society. MGBK supports initiatives that empower the oppressed to demand their rights and address their own needs. The ongoing effort is to establish a self-governance mechanism accessible to rural groups, centered around women's self-help groups, village health committees, youth clubs, and community-based organizations. Objectives of the Organisation: - Providing basic education for all children and eradicating child labor in society. - Offering healthcare and treatment facilities, along with medicinal aid, for the holistic development of weaker section communities. - Providing vocational training and livelihood enhancement opportunities for impoverished women. - Raising awareness of human rights and ensuring empowerment opportunities regardless of caste, creed, or tribe. - Offering necessary support to rural women for socio-economic, environmental, and cultural development. - Improving the quality of life for rural and poor women through education, skill development, income generation, and the organization of self-help groups, thrift savings, and microfinance linkages. - Educating and raising awareness among village people, especially women, on preventive and curative health care, family planning services, reproductive and child health services, and STD/HIV/AIDS control.