Grameen Swapna

Background of Grameen Swapna
Grameen Swapna (GS) is a non-profit, non-governmental a national development organization founded in 1996 by a group of NGO professionals and social workers to address the basic problems for underprivileged people of Bangladesh. GS is registered with the Directorate of the NGO Affairs Bureau under the Ministry of the Prime Minister office of Bangladesh. Foreign Donation Registration No. is 1622. At present Greameen Swapna (GS) is working multidimensional development activities like Non-formal Education, Primary Health Care, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Emergency Relief & Rehabilitation, Micro-finance, Human Rights and Legal Aid Services, Empowerment of the Persons with Disability, Malaria Control, Child Sponsorship, Farmer Development & Food Security, Disaster Management, Environment and Climate Change, Street Children Development, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Solar Energy, Improved cooking stove and so on.

The main function of the GS is to undertake an extensive and intensive participatory sustainable development process through empowerment of the underprivileged by supplementing and complementing the government development initiatives in the project areas of GS. Over the period, the founder members of the organization have had the opportunity to participate in many development programs and initiated a good number of development activities to improve the socio-economic conditions of the poor and marginalized people. The founder members keenly observed the living conditions of the poor and underprivileged people, their hardship and sufferings for merely survival and over all their shortcomings and ignorance in improving their lot in the society. All these had inspired the founder members to initiate some development interventions involving like-minded social development activists and the GS is an outcome of these initiatives and effort.