National Fellowship For The Advancement Of Visually Handicapped
(NFAVH), Plot # 14, West gopalpur, Gopalpur
road, Tongi, Gazpur, Bangladesh. Mobile-01715669562, 01922-412242, Email-
nfavh2015@yahoo.com, nfavhngo@gmail.com,
Contact Person and Designation: Md. Jahangir Alam.
Executive Director-NFAVH. Mobile-01715669562
National Fellowship for the Advancement of Visually Handicapped as
NFAVH, active in the country as a non-profit making, non-political,
non-Government national organization of the disabled people duly registered by
the NGO Affairs Bureau and Joint Stock Companies & Firms, Government of the People‘s Republic of
Bangladesh was established in 1989 with the initiatives of a group of visually
impaired and sighted persons. Since its inception, NFAVH has been working for
the visually impaired persons in the country with the firm faith in the morals
of working for the poorest strata of rural people irrespective of castes and
creeds and the ideal of the service for them is to convert the visually
handicapped persons into working hands towards self-reliance by self-doings to
lead life with dignity and honor so that their rights and privileges are
recognized and their opportunities to participate in the mainstream of national
development activities are ensured. To
make the visually handicapped aware of their duties and responsibilities to
their families, society and the state as true citizen, the NFAVH took up
programs of their self development & Empowerment to materialize its
objectives and goal. NFAVH works through its working potentials of (i)
Identifying the visually impaired persons through initial survey (ii) Enhancing
the skills and ability of non-curable ones by appropriate and felt-needed
training to strengthen the human creativity in them (iii) Activating their
training skill through provision of liberal credit support as collective loan
as a starting point of emancipation from social and economical bondage (iv)
Referring the curable impaired persons to appropriate institutions i.e. other
NGO, special clinics, hospitals nearby for restoration of their vision by
treatment. Latter on, In consideration with the problems, difficulties and
demand of other types of disabled people, NFAVH has included all types of
persons with disabilities in it’s organizational structure and program. NFAVH
is committed to work for promoting the
quality of lives of the persons with disabilities; in particular children and women
with disabilities have been given more priority. As per constitution of NFAVH
disabled people have rights to express their views and ideas by participating
in the decision making and implementation process of the organization. NFAVH
gives importance on democratic values and social commitment of the disabled
people. It cordially believes in that disabled people are inseparable part of
the society, they are able to play active role in the mainstreaming development
and nation-building activities by utilizing their skills and talents. NFAVH is very much careful and attentive to
take up effective program for empowerment, inclusive development, self-reliance
and independent living of the disabled people. In the meantime, the National
Fellowship for the Advancement of Visually Handicapped abbreviated as NFAVH has
successfully completed over 27 years of its development interventions in the
field of rehabilitation and education of the persons with disability. During
the period of 27 years the organization had to confront various odd situations
and obstacles in the pursuits of its activities. This specified information /
report is an honest and modest effort to publicize all its attempts undertaken
to survive as a development of the disabled persons and the progress made in
the period of reporting. So the report
at its present form provides a momentary view of the organization’s own profile
and its involvement, experiences, lessons learnt, obstacles faced with etc
during the implementation of the concerned programs. NFAVH is
operating and implementing is programs for the development of disable
people with the support of 11 partner organization in different district of
Bangladesh.