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Brief History of the Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh

Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh (PSF)

In Early Seventies, Prof. Dr. Tofayal Ahmed, a leading pediatrician, dedicated social worker and a thought provoking relentless activist for the children in Bangladesh spun a new concept “Child Care is an integral part of the community development and participation” The constitution of the Palli Shishu Foundation and establishment of Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital about four decades back are the obvious consequence to his above perception.

In this year 1976 Palli Shishu Foundation started mobilizing rural people to set up and run self-reliant clinics across the country. The landmark concept, on which PSF was founded, groomed and evolved to its current state. It imbibes the spirit of understanding to gradually raise consciousness and awareness among rural people about child health. Mother care and educating mothers has also been greatly evaluated for raising social awareness, creating volunteers and eventually developing national movement for child Health care. Over the last decades, PSF activities gained momentum and at the same time the number of clinics increased to 47 from 6 in 1976. Currently its coverage spread across 802 million people about 1700 villages. As years elapsed from its birth, PSF activities expanded to protection of Legal rights of the needy, Women empowerment, Food Security, Tree Plantation, Mass Education, NGO Health Service Delivery program (NHSDP), Advancing Universal Health Coverage (AUHC) Project, Micro finance among others, PSF’s role in economic and social emancipation of people, Particularly the rural mass cannot be overemphasized. Let us not fail to rewind back to our memories with PSF founder Prof. Dr. Tofayel Ahmed and his teammates some of whom are yet activity attached with it.

Registered Office:
The registered office (HQ) of the Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh (PSF) shall be situated in Dhaka Bangladesh. At Present it is situated in its own building, Dr. Tofayel Palli Shishu Bhaban, House No: 6/A, Barobag, Section-2, Mirpur, Dhaka-1216.
Nature of Foundation:
Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh is a non-profit, non-political, non-governmental voluntary and charitable organization.

Our Values:
Palli Shishu Foundation (PSF) works to serve the community- without discrimination. Its work is based in the following core values:

  • Participation: Our employees and Stakeholders play an active part in planning and decision-making.
  • Respect: We affirm the dignity, potential and contribution of participants, development partners and stakeholders.
  • Excellence: We constantly challenge ourselves to higher levels of performance to achieve greater achievement.
  • Autonomy: We are guided only by PSF’s work philosophy and governance mechanisms.
  • Legality: All actions and decisions will be taken within the law of the land and in accordance with moral principle and transparency.
  • Unity: We are committed to work as a team.
  • Discipline: We are committed to quality work and assume personal responsibility for our action.
  • Sustainability: We promote cost- effectiveness, accountability, transparency to achieve organizational Sustainability.

Our Objectives:
The objectives of The Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh is to mobilize rural community to set up and run one rural center in each union with the targated people to serve the following purposes :

  • To provide Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services through different Palli Shishu Clinics for rural community in Bangladesh.

  • To provide health, hygiene and general education among the target groups.

  • To improve domestic midwifery service through conducting TBA training for rural areas and to

  • To adopt all - out preventive measures to reduce occurrences of diseases and epidemics by Immunizing all target children and mothers.

  • Improving sanitary condition of the society.

  • To impart nutrition education and provide support for homestead gardening.

  • To create awareness on nutrition and sanitation.

  • To provide simple curative care.

  • To increase literacy rate by providing non-formal community  education.

  • To assist under privileged and distressed women  and rural poor for availing  of the legal aid support.

  • To train up distressed women in income generating activities.

  • provide Family Planning and delivery facilities including cesarean section.

  • To create income generation facilities through Micro-Finance program.

Mass Education:
To Promote formal & non-formal community education, particularly of school drop outs & other by the Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh itself or in collaboration with the government/any other agency or agencies.
Women Empowerment:
a) To impart training to social workers including community leaders & female , UP members about their role in UP activities. Village Salish & about womrn's legal rights and ensure exercise of such rights.
b) To encourage the female UP members and others to form UP/Thana Women members Association (T/UPWMA) to ensure free exercise of their rights.
Legal Rights of Rural Women:
a) To Promote women'd legal rights.
b) To protect women from harassment in exercise of the legal rights.
c) To ensure accessible and equitable justice to rural women through their participation.
d) To reduce the number of unregistered marriage, polygammy marriage, marriage with dowry & child marriage in the area of operation.
e) To build-up awareness among rural women about the curse of unregistered marriage.
f) To organize Rural Women to create communities as initiators, members or judge.
g) To impart income generating training & vocational training for women.
Development works:
The Palli Shishu Foundation shall also work in the following fields:
i) Infrastructure Development
ii) Agriculture Development
iii) Capacity Building Training
iv) Monga Eradication
v) Disaster Management.
Research:
To devise ways and means for the improvement of the objectives setforth in this documents.

Besides The Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh (PSF) shall initiate itself or participate in rural and urban development and poverty alleviation programs.
To organize different groups & to impart training to them on:
i) Financing of Micro Finance & it's management;
ii) Financing of Micro Enterprise & it's Management;
iii) Financing of ultra poor by the Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh itself or in collaboration with the Government or any other agency or agencies.
iv) Food security for vulnerable Groups development (FSVGD) and ultra poor (UP) beneficiaries project.
v) Special seasonal projects for the rural poor such as Livestock, Agriculture, Apiculture, Fisheries.

To do all such works as may be conducive to the attainment of the aims & objectives of the Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh and/or any of the works, beneficial to Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh. But it may undertake any project for earning income to build-up fund for the purpose or promotion of the objectives of the Palli Shishu Foundation of Bangladesh.
 

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