Suchinta Passion
In Bangladesh, laudable, replicable community initiatives / movements wither away in the absence of recognition, cooperation, resources and management capacity. As a result, there is an increased burden on the local governments and donor-funded NGO projects to take up the mantle e.g. providing training and rehabilitation to underprivileged youth. While these are typical symptoms of a social transitioning from Collectivism to Individualism, Bangladesh still has the scope to cultivate and reinvigorate its historic traditions of collectively devising homegrown solutions to societal challenges.
Suchinta Foundation focuses on issues that affect the stability, development and cultural harmony of Bangladesh. Under this broad framework, the Foundation has been working to foster youth-led, community-based solutions to national issues.
Suchinta Foundation
The Foundation works towards engagement, formalization, capacity-building, funding, scaling-up and monitoring of youth organizations working on social, community issues. It also envisages modern ICT as a vehicle for knowledge-management and experience-sharing. Such development projects that demonstrate the potential and strategy for increasing social cohesion & harmony, combating social inequalities and injustices, curbing corruption / crime, introducing new ideas & technologies and bridging socioeconomic gaps – are chosen for technical and financial assistance. Each youth project meets a community level challenge that had been impeding economic growth and slowing down social development and thus hindering Bangladesh’s overall development vision.
Strategic Approach
To harness the potential of Bangladeshi youth working towards social justice, knowledge development, empowerment and community development
Objective
To promote bottom-up development by fostering community self-sufficiency.Currently, most community development work by Bangladeshi youth is top-down and features urban, well-off youth working for the Underprivileged and Marginalized. Such work is limited to urban slums and a few sites outside Dhaka. Some of this work can tend to be donor-friendly, administration-heavy or largely cosmetic. Suchinta seeks to reverse this and embrace a development vision propagated by our communities themselvesSuchinta proposes to patronize and facilitate community-led initiatives where local youth start exchanges and attempt to address common challenges. Working from within the community, they have the ‘insiders’ advantage’ of familiarity, credibility and knowledge of symptoms & causes. It eliminates the need for prohibitive administrative costs or technical knowledge needed. Youth are also thereby channeled into productive roles, giving rise to youth groups that are committed to the cause of nation-building.