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M E S S A G E F R O M T H E E X E C U T I V ED I R E C T O R

DALIT has successfully completed another vibrant year and is now on the edge ofentering 2016. This unique organization, which started its journey in 1998, has

evolved into a dynamic development institution by translating its strategies andpolicies into various types of demand driven continuous programs and projects.

In order to increase productive assets, each family has being provided witheducation, health, technical knowledge, skills development training in acoordinated manner, which is expected to emerge as a comprehensive

development model for sustainable poverty alleviation. DALIT will go ahead withevolving creative programs for making the targeted people self-reliant. It has beenpossible for DALIT to reach its present status due to the continuous support and

collaboration of the Government and the Development Partners,relentless efforts of its committed staff, guidance of the Executive Body and aboveall, the supportive participation of targeted poor citizens to its different projects.With the hope to have their continuous support in future, I take this opportunity

to extend my sincere thanks to all of them.Swapon Kumar Das, Executive Director

DALIT is working since 1998 for

empowering and mainstreaming

dalit and other marginalized

communities in the South Western

part of Bangladesh. It is bringing

hope to thousands of hopeless

families through several programs:

Primary and Secondary Education

for children, support to Higher

Studies and Vocational Trainings

for adolescents, Human Rights

Awareness meetings to eliminate

violence against women, trafficking

and child marriages, Health care,

Access to safe Water, Sanitation &

Hygiene, Livelihood activities for

vulnerable women (as handicraft),

an Ayurvedic

Production Unit.

Medicines

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OUR VIS IONA world in which dalit and other marginalized

communities realize their full potential incaste-based free societies that respect people's

rights and dignity.

OUR MISS IONAchieving sustainable and lasting improvements

in dalits and other marginalized and sociallyexcluded groups' quality of life, faci l i ta t ing theaccess to education, promoting and advocating

for their basic human rights, boostingcommunity health, increasing the access to

livelihood opportunities and WASH facil i t ies.

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Children, women and menbelonging to dalit/

marginalized communitiesknown as Rishi (skinner),

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mortem of dead bodies),Bazadar (drum beating), Jele

(fishermen), Nikari ( f i shsellers), Jula (weavers).

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Main Activities* 64 Primary and SecondaryEducation Centres * 152 part-time andfull time teachers * More than 5,000children attending the classes * 1.128under sponsorship program* Monthly study materials distributed* Monthly stipend, special andmedical support to 2.230 mostvulnerable children * 6 drawing andcultural programs * An adulteducation centre in BanishantaBrothel for 20 women

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Adolescents* Higher EducationWith the aim of reducing early marriage and establishing

women empowerment, DALIT supports 580 dalit and vulnerableadolescent girls and boys with a monthly contribution for their

studies at the college/university.

Community MobilizationMain Activities

r 240 sessions on preventing human trafficking * 789Courtyard meetings * Street Theatre * Debate Competitions

* 65 awareness meetings with college going students onhuman rights and social obstacles * 64 Meetings with School

Managing Committees * 8 Days Observation * RegularMeetings with several stakeholders and Government

officials, especially to reduce the level of discrimination,child marriages and dowry

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Health careMain Activities

* 233 Satellite Clinics/ Medical Camps

have been conducted in the target areas

reaching around 12.000 people through

counseling and medicines distribution.

* 6.000 patients received treatments at

DALIT Hospital * 446 awareness

sessions on health, hygiene and Sexual

Reproductive Health & Rights for 13.577

women and men * Follow-up training to

48 Traditional Birth Attendants * 3

medical camps at Banishanta Brothel for

80 women

Water, Sanitation & HygieneMain Activities

* 486 meetings with men and women on safe water, hygiene,sanitary latrines * 4 public toilets with one separate toilet for

disable people

* Orientation sessions for the teachers of 10 schools and660 adolescent girls * Training course for 60 adolescentgirls volunteers * Monthly information meetings with

200 college going girls * 40 video shows in public placesfor around 20.000 people * Installation of 18 deep tube

wells and 4 shallow tube wells * 2 low cost sanitarynapkins making machines imported from India

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Technical and livelihood trainingComputer (software & hardware) training: 160 adolescent

girls and boys received a training on Office, Desktop Publishing,Internet, how to search online job, writing a CV,

Alternative livelihood for 20 Brothel workers

Training on homestead farming,vegetable cultivation &shopping bags making

To increase the capacities of thedisadvantaged women to contribute to the

monthly family income, several groupsare trained in different skills:

a) 40 women are trained for 3 months inhomestead gardening and at the end theyget 14 fruit plants and seeds of vegetables

to start cultivating nearby their houses.b) 40 women are trained in poultry

farming for 1 month, how to hatch andnurse the chickens, how to cure themfrom diseases. At the end they get 8

chickens to start rearing them at home.c) 40 women are trained for 3 months onhow to prepare shopping bags, and at the

end they receive papers, scissors, gum,cotton and cloth to start their own

business

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Social BusinessAyurvedic MedicineProduction Unit: 24 differenttypes of syrups and tabletsproduced and 40 traditional

healers received training.Handicraft production: 120

women involved in 3 differentcentres to stitch and

embroider several productsthat have been sold to local

fairs & to other organizations.

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On 18th June 2015, DALIT has been awarded of the EnergyGlobe Award by the Embassy of Austria in New Delhi, India

for its intervention in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

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RAHMAN ANIS & CO.C H A R T E R E D A C C O U N T A N T S

Independen.1 Jtoditor* Report

We have audited the accompanying Financial Statements oE 15JULIT of 37/1 Kedemath Road, KUET,Moheswarpasha, Daulatpur, Khuinat Bangladesh, Which comprise the Balance Sheet as at Oecemfcer31, ztHS and the Income a»d Expenditure Account, Receipts and Payments Account, for t&eyear thenended December 31, 2015 and « summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatorynotes

Management responsibility for the financial;

»ai4T management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financialstatements irs accordance with International financial reporting standards, and for such internalcontrol as management delerniines is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statementsthat are f tee ft om material misstatement,

Auditor' Responsibility:

Out responsibility is to express an independent opinion on these financial statement! based on ouraudit. We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing 0&&)> asadopted by The Institute of Chartered Accountants' of Bangladesh (IC&B). Those standards requirethat we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about weather the financialstatements are tree from material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in One financial statement.

to our opiiuon, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the FinancialStatements of liM* DRWT as at December 31, 201S. And its financial performance for the year thenei^ed December 31, 20 1 3 in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) andother applicable laws and regulations.

We also report that:

a. We have obtained all the information and explanations which to £h$ best of ourknowledge and belief were necessary for (he purposes of our audit and made dueverification thereof.

b. In our opinion, proper books of accounts as required, by law & Rul* havg been k®pi byP&I»IT so far as it appeared from our examination of those books, and

c- In our opinion, the statement of financial position and. the statement of comprehensiveincome dealt wssh toy this report are an agreement with the books of account.

Dated; Dhaka, BangladeshAugust 25, 2016

Azad Center 55 Purana Paltan. Suit f 13/ A-1, (13 Floor), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

Tel: 88-02-9552597, Fax; 88-02-9552597, Mobile. 01819-491543, E-mail; ca rac@yahoo.com

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EDITINGMohidur RahmanSilvia Rovelli

PHOTO CREDITSDALIT staffAlexis Fortin RobitaillesSilvia Rovelli

Published inAugust 2016

Printed in KhulnaGLORY ART PRESS

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