Voluntary Association for Rural Development (VARD)

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The Story Behind Us

Voluntary Association for Rural Development (VARD) runs its major parts of development activities in Sylhet division, which still belongs to relatively untouched area, sufficient local development institutions did not emerge, government initiatives have been as elsewhere rudimentary, the gap between poor and rich rise social imbalance..More

Vision of VARD

The vision of VARD is "an enlightened humanistic society with a sustainable basis for livelihood."

Mission of VARD

VARD is committed to develop a self-reliant and socially competitive community of poor, women and children.

Message from Founder and Executive Director

Voluntary Association for Rural Development (VARD) was established in 1988.

Program Management

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The goal of VARD-ECS is to contribute to the reduction of avoidable blindness and to promote social inclusion of Visually Impaired (VI) people of program areas. VARD-ECS provided eye health service at field level of four eye hospitals..

The major portions of VARD working areas are in low-lying, haor-basin, mushy and beneath -hill which are commonly affected by floods & flashes while there are heavy rainfalls. Considering the situation, VARD is providing services to the community people for disaster ..

VARD intends to introduce and provide support and access to life oriented Non-Formal Education (NFPE) programs, responding to the needs of economically underprivileged people. The focus is on the provision of qualitative non-formal education including adolescent life skill development.

VARD has been introduced this program to alleviate the poverty through formation of grass-root level people’s organization, their fund generation, creation of income and employment opportunities and microfinance support.

The overall objective of VARD-HNPP is to achieve a sustainable improvement of the health, nutrition, including family planning of the population particularly vulnerable groups of it’s working area through reducing maternal mortality rate, reducing total ferity rate, reducing malnutrition, reducing

Traditionally, agriculture production in Bangladesh is oriented towards paddy cultivation, to the extent that signs of monoculture have appeared during recent years, with partly decreasing yields. VARD intends in this sector to promote sustainable agriculture technology and practices of land use