Legal Status



Legal Status of  NFAVH :  NFAVH has been registered under : (1) NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh Vide No. 437, Dated: 28-01-1991 (2) Joint Stock Companies & Farms Vide No. S-4274 (376)/04, Dated: 29-11-2004


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.