Dimla Upazilla of Nilphamari district is a high disaster prone area. In Dimla Upazilla, Paikerpara village of Khogakhoribari union is one of the most vulnerable villages due to flood, drought, water logging, storm, cold wave, climate change & other natural calamities. Total household of this village are……… Among them 324 household are poor and extreme poor. The people of this village lead their life with fight of such type of natural disasters. Poverty is their daily day’s companion. Most of the people of this village are involved in different agricultural activities. Rest of the people are rickshaw puller, day labor etc. Literacy rate of this village is very poor.
Firstly, JSKS staff of SHOUHARDO II Program organized a small group discussion as a part of CAP formation. After fruitful discussion, the villager’s find out different problem of their village. Then JSKS staff organized a community consultation with the help of community people. In community consultation, the villager’s identified 10 major problems then prioritized the problem and “communication problem” is their first issue to solve as early as possible. So, community people took initiative earthen road repairing of their village as a quick win.
Villager’s identified earthen road repairing as a main problem because of the earthen road is one of the main communication roads of this village. The road linked one side with khogakhoribari bazar, union parishad and dimla Upazilla and another side linked with zorjiga bazar of dalia road as well as educational institution, around villages. Villagers, school going student, pregnant woman and vehicle are not going through on the road smoothly. The villager’s are not get different service from GO & NGO for the reason of rough communication and faced immeasurable difficulties before rainy season.
For the point of view, the people of paiker Para village agree to repair the road as soon as possible.
After long time discussion community people prepared a plan and formed a committee consisting twenty members where seven members are management committee the road repairing activities.
As per their plan, about five hundred community people (male & female) gathered on June 9, 2011 with their own resources i.e. Spade, Dali & other local materials where Upazilla vice chairman, Elite person, Imam, JSKS personnel, CARE Bangladesh personnel, other villager’s from different community were present there. Upazilla vice chairman, JSKS personnel and CARE personnel delivered their speech regarding this issue and vice chairman inaugurate the activity with his valuable speech.
After inauguration, community people started road repairing and they have completed their job successfully with making one kilometer road to easy access.
The probable estimated wages of one kilometer earthen road repairing would be 150X500= TK. 75000(Seventy five thousand taka) only which was a remarkable amount. Community people were not realized that they could easily perform the activity which they could not imagine before.
The impacts of road repairing are as follows-
- Well communication among four villages.
- Students are going to school easily.
- Community people got well marketing access.
- Easy access to service of GO & NGO.
- Relation buildup among community people.
After accomplishment of the activity, the community people of this village should take necessary step to solve other major problem by community led approach.
To realize this type of activity, other villager’s took initiative to repair earthen road of their village as soon as possible.
Now the villager’s of paiker Para village are very glad and said that they would be enough for solving any problem by community led approach.
They are grateful to JSKS & CARE Bangladesh for initiative such type of activities.
Prepared by
Md. Harunur Rashid
TO-DRR
