Findhorn Eco-village training voor Samanta Badra Barua Bangladesh
Samanta Barua lives in Bangladesh and is director of the NGO Swanivar Bangladesh (Self-reliant Bangladesh). He earned his Bachelor Engineering degree and worked as an engineering consultant but concentrated on developing innovative educative materials for rural area's to help fight poverty and illiteracy.
He won several prices for his work in developing the rural communities and by now there are nearly a hundred Swanivar communities. Barua works on the principle of motivating the community members to work on their development themselves by creating committees of represenatives of the farmers, the landless, the women, etc. who then make a socio-economic plan for the development of the community concentrating first on skills, litteracy and family planning.
Local government and other instutions are asked for practical and financial help and Swanivar itself has a credit program where small loans can be obtained (70% of the loans are given to women).
Barua is recognised widely, amongst others by UNESCO. Barua wanted very much to follow the eco-village training of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland to learn more about re-using materials, building with existing materials, environmentally friendly producing, setting up democratic management structures, etc.
HE COULD CONTRIBUTE € 200 HIMSELF,
THE COST OF THE TRAINING AND THE TRAVELEXPENSES WHERE PAID FOR BY MOMENTS OF JOY € 1790,--
Samanta Barua lives in Bangladesh and is director of the NGO Swanivar Bangladesh (Self-reliant Bangladesh). He earned his Bachelor Engineering degree and worked as an engineering consultant but concentrated on developing innovative educative materials for rural area's to help fight poverty and illiteracy.
He won several prices for his work in developing the rural communities and by now there are nearly a hundred Swanivar communities. Barua works on the principle of motivating the community members to work on their development themselves by creating committees of represenatives of the farmers, the landless, the women, etc. who then make a socio-economic plan for the development of the community concentrating first on skills, litteracy and family planning.
Local government and other instutions are asked for practical and financial help and Swanivar itself has a credit program where small loans can be obtained (70% of the loans are given to women).
Barua is recognised widely, amongst others by UNESCO. Barua wanted very much to follow the eco-village training of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland to learn more about re-using materials, building with existing materials, environmentally friendly producing, setting up democratic management structures, etc.
HE COULD CONTRIBUTE € 200 HIMSELF,
THE COST OF THE TRAINING AND THE TRAVELEXPENSES WHERE PAID FOR BY MOMENTS OF JOY € 1790,--
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