Affect n Effect Who we are and what we do

Foundation Target GroupChildren 5-14 yearsYoung Girls Woman and Children (children aged 0-4years)Other TargetsThe Company Prospective BuyersOur Strategy BenefitsHow do we get rid of poverty Child Labour Causes of Child Labour Help & assistance provided Events

THE FOUNDATION:

‘ AFFECT N EFFECT’

This is a foundation which will to work with other like minded individuals & organizations with a view to reducing poverty in communities in Bangladesh and expand to other parts of the world.

CREATING THE ” AFFECT N EFFECT” or chain reaction of betterment.

OUR TARGET GROUP: CHILDREN 5-14: PUT THEM IN PRIMARY/SECONDARY SCHOOLS - Encourage them by inspiring & motivating them to stay in school and continue their education for further advancement & career prospects ( i.e. college and training prospect).Meet their tuition fees, buy uniforms, books, stationery, & provide other assistance that could otherwise prevent them from education.Provide sports & other extracurricular equipment which is a luxury that they cannot afford & which authorities do not provide.

YOUNG GIRLS ( 15 – 20)

Provide them with education and training to equip with necessaryskills for self development in order to create a better prospect for their future.Training program tailored to this particular age group. If they are working we will work with the factory owners in order to identify their needs to ensure that they enjoy their jobs and get job satisfaction through these training programs as well as promotion prospect.

Provide women nurses who they can confide with in confidence about their health issues.

WOMAN & (children aged 0-4 years.) Inspire, motivate, educate women to see the benefits of their children’s education & give them a better vision /aim of life in the future and meet expenses of other difficulties that may hinder them from having quality life i.e. provide: shelter/accommodation/renovating properties clean water, sanitation & health care services.

Help the helpless to help themselves. ‘Help the mother to help her child’ Mothers do not want hand outs, they want opportunities to help themselves and their children.

OTHER TARGETS:

Working Street Children

Woman and girls working in dangerous and hazardous jobs

Community Development Projects

No Child Labour Polices – Not active for the child in dangerous and hazardous jobs . CRC (UN Convention of Rights of Child)????? ‘only an aspiration of

words for a child who has no option:

Child sex workers, child bride and police brutality

Beauty and innocence under privileged by poverty

Fashion of Pain & Pleasure:

‘Some due to pain, some due to pleasure’

THE COMPANY:

Shonar Bangla Exports is involved in export of promotional and retail merchandise. Mainly cotton garments and textile relateditems. We are able to provide all the benefits because we are a company that strives in Ethical Business, Fair Trade, and Honest dealing.

A company which takes pride in their enduring and public commitment to ethical practice in all their operations and chooses partnership over power politics to give our clients/ customers true and complete professional services and quality goods.

PROSPECTIVE BUYERS:

Many buyers are already involving in buying the merchandise fromcountries where poverty has created and promoted child labour. Ourintention is to encourage companies to place trade orders through our company at no extra costs to them. The charity/ foundation will be used in poverty reduction in the communities by assisting the target groups.

Investments to our charity projects are made from our own company profit while giving our clients the best price. Shonar Bangla does not just provide the best price, we balance price and ethical practice to give the best value option to our clients. As well as committing to charity work and social projects

OUR STRATERGY:

This will be a broad based participation by those who have interest in poverty reduction and eradication of child labour.In particularity the target we have identified, mainly to help women and children to have a better quality life and provide a hope for a better future.

Result oriented: - Focusing on the outcome that would benefit these children and women.

Comprehensive: - Recognising the multi-dimensional nature of poverty affecting the children and women. Partnership oriented: - Involving coordinated participation of partners – clients/ buyers & us and our factories as well as other like minded individuals and companies. (i.e. partnership with local businesses & firms, hospitals etc). Based on long-term perspective for poverty reduction. We shallmonitor/follow up the beneficiaries. To create a chain reaction of betterment, helping one person to then help another and so ….

WarehousingInternational logistics

BENEFITS:

•Stop/eradicate child labour / child slavery / forced labour.•Clean water

•Shelter (building houses, accommodations) •Training & Education

•Better opportunities in life ( via various means – business opportunities etc) •Creating awareness

•Increased family incomes

•Education - that helps children learn skills that will help seek better jobs. •Social services - that help children and families survive crises, such as disease, or loss of home and shelter.

HOW DO WE GET RID OF POVERTY?

To get rid of poverty many things are needed to overcome global poverty. It is impossible to get rid of poverty. However, we can play a key role in helping to reduce poverty. It is difficult but not impossible. To one person it may look small scale but to another it may make a big difference. So let us work together and help the helpless through Shonar Bangla Exports.

Let us identify the needs and take ‘corrective actions’ to actually help the needy rather than just thinking from the commercial aspect of international trade. HELP THEM TO HELPTHEMSELVES. Give them a trade tool, starting with education and awareness to create better opportunities.

A minor decisions by buyers / investors can make a major difference to people’s lives in poor countries.

We cannot change the world but sometimes the smallest steps can help go many miles i.e.

Education and training for women: - All studies show that when women are educated, trained and empowered, the incidence of labor by their children, especially girl children, drops dramatically.

Child Labour: Child Labour - Up to 246 million children in the world today are child labourers (i.e. around 18% of all the world's children.)

Causes of Child Labour:

There are many causes of child labour, but most are fundamentally concerned with money, or rather the absence of money. Among poorer communities, there is often a stark financial imperative for the children to start working as soon as possible. This is the case even in some developing economies: in India and Bangladesh for example, it is rare for girls to stay in school past the age of nine or ten, since many families require their services either in the home or earning money through some other type of employment. The situation for boys is a little better but not much, and for these families the need to generate money from their children's work is so great that it overrides almost all other considerations.

No Child Labour Polices ‘ Not in the name of my best interest’ ( Article by A. Bibi 2010 )

Help and assistance provided;

Aklima Bibi has been providing help and asistance to the poor in Bangladesh for over many years together with her family.Some of the work inlcludes;

Help and assistance that helped;

*Poor to buy books and uniforms for children to attend schools.*Resources to school - expansion of buildings, wash rooms etc, desks, lighting, *computers, school competitions i.e. buy prizes for inspiring the poor to send children to school as appose to encourage them to work (child labour ) . Painting and other DIY for schools. *Trained girls to have a skill - sewing skills and once they passed this I bought them *sewing machines which enabled them to tailor for the local people which set them up *in business .*Built houses for widows + more...

‘Help does make things better for the poor ‘;Education helps fight child marriage

Clean Water

A rural village school girls in Bangladesh (14/4/2012 Bangladeshi new year) play football for the first time, to prove they can do better if they are given the opportunity;

Events : ‘AFFECT n EFFECT ‘ FOR THE CHILDREN OF HOPE

Power of hope from the children of hope

Children of hope, do not want hand outs but opportunities.

Orphan presenting a hand made embroidered picture to Affect n Effect in the hope of betterment.