Canadian Hunger Foundation

Published purpose

The project helps an estimated 33,000 poor households, including female-headed households, in Chandpur District to improve their livelihoods, increase their incomes, and achieve food security. The objective is to bring about an increase in real incomes of 15% to 30% in the target areas. The project helps selected poor families, including some that are "ultra-poor", lift themselves out of poverty by helping them improve their livelihoods and increasing their access to education, health care, and government processes and services. Project activities include: helping people start income-generating activities or improve their skills to obtain better jobs; helping them to first develop the minimum of assets needed so they can access micro-finance; providing education for children who cannot access schools; providing health services to families who are not able to access existing facilities; helping people prepare for and recover from natural disasters; and improving water and sanitation for the communities.