NFAVH envisions that all disabled people irrespective of caste,
creed & religion will be self-reliant & dignified through establishment
of their equal rights & opportunities encompassing mainstreaming in 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.