The overall goal of NFAVH is to ensure the
socio-economic and cultural development of the disabled people and best
utilization of their skills and talents in the different sectors of the
society.
The 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.