Success StoriesSuccess Story: One Goat, and Jharna Begum’s Fresh Start
In 2022 Jharna Begum of Khan Bari, Hajir Hati was given a single goat under AKWO's self-reliance project. She now keeps six.
Impact
Impact
What seven years of weekly clinics, mobile camps, relief distributions and training add up to, with the sources for every number we publish.
Where we stand
44,000+People treated free of charge since 2019
1,029+Families reached with food and relief
7Years of weekly free clinics
18Computer training batches completed
as of month and year these figures were last checked · These numbers come from AKWO's own clinic registers and distribution lists. Where our older pages carried two different figures for the same measure, we publish the lower one until the trustees confirm the official set.
About these numbers
Our previous website carried more than one figure for the same measure: 44,000 people treated on one page and more than 70,000 on another, 1,200 families on one layout and 1,029 on another. Rather than pick the flattering number we publish the lowest documented one and show its source. The trustees are reconciling the registers and will confirm one official set.
Year by year
| Year | What happened | Recorded numbers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | First health camp at Pirbari on 6 June. Abul Khair Health Care inaugurated on 4 July with Ek Ronga Ek Ghuri. Weekly clinics begin at Baishmouja Bazar. | Weekly clinics start | ||
| 2020 | COVID-19 emergency food and medication relief. Health Camp for Children pilot completed. | 800 families reached | ||
| 2021 | Computer training batches continue at the Abul Khair Computer Training Center. | students trained in 2021 | ||
| 2022 | Self-reliance project: livestock given to households with no capital | including Jharna Begum. | number of households in the 2022 self-reliance project | |
| 2023 | Weekly clinics and mobile campaigns continue. | patients treated in 2023 | ||
| 2024 | Registration granted as Brahman 615/24. Construction of the Abul Khair Academic Building begins. Flood response at Umedpur | Mogra Union | Akhaura. | 250+ treated at Umedpur |
| 2025 | Winter blanket drive in Krishnanagar and Birgaon Unions. 18th computer batch completes. Clinic reports published through the year. | 65 families | 200+ patients over two Fridays | 54 patients in one clinic day |
| 2026 | Free medical camp on 1 May. Organization reports passing 70 | 000 people treated in seven years. | 79 patients at the May camp |
How we count
Every patient seen at a clinic or a camp is written into a register on the day, by hand, with age and sex and the reason for the visit. Every relief parcel and blanket is recorded against a household name at the moment it is handed over. The numbers on this page are totals of those registers, not estimates.
That method has limits and we would rather state them than let a reader assume otherwise. A person who attends the clinic four times in a year appears four times in the running total of consultations, so the figure for people treated is a count of visits rather than of individuals. Households are counted once per distribution, so a family reached by both a food parcel and a blanket appears in both lists. And the registers are paper, so they are only as good as a busy Friday morning allows.
Where our own published figures have disagreed, the disagreement is usually explained by one of those limits. Rather than pick whichever number is highest, we publish the lowest one and are reconciling the registers before we settle on an official set.
What we have not achieved
Our objectives include maternal health centers, solar and biogas plants, sustainable sanitation and adult education. None of those has started. The polytechnic is a building, not yet a school. We have no published annual report. Several of the numbers on this page have a placeholder where a year's figure should be.
We publish that list because a page of impact figures with nothing missing from it is not a report, it is an advertisement. What we do have, after seven years, is a clinic that has never missed a Friday, a training center that has finished eighteen batches, and a set of registers that anybody can come and look at.
Where we work
Our regular work is in Krishnanagar Union and Birgaon Union in Nabinagar Upazila, Brahmanbaria district, with the clinic office at Baishmouja Bazar on the Meghna river bank and the Academic Building at Uttar Lakshmipur. Campaigns have reached further: the flood response at Umedpur in Mogra Union, Akhaura, treated more than 250 people.
Abul Khair Welfare Organization, Baishmouja River Bank, Birgaon, Nabinagar, Brahmanbaria 3410.
Stories behind the numbers
Success Stories
Success StoriesOvercoming adversity: Anhar’s pharmacy
Anhar became self-reliant by opening his own pharmacy with a small one-off grant from Abul Khair Welfare Organization.
Success StoriesA father’s unyielding spirit: Masud’s stall
Masud is raising his disabled son alone. A donation from AKWO strengthened his chotpoti business and gave the household a steady income.
Success StoriesA glitter of hope: Nush’hika Akter
Nush'hika Akter is an eighth-grade student supported by AKWO's stipend program, and she intends to make her father proud.
Reports
Downloadable annual, project and financial reports are being prepared. Written accounts of any specific project are available on request.
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Everything above was paid for by people who gave without ever visiting Nabinagar.
Registered with the Ministry of Social Welfare, Government of Bangladesh · Reg No. Brahman 615/24