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NDBUS receives Registration Certificate

Today NDBUS has received their Registration Certificate from the Ministry of Social Welfare, People's Republic of Bangladesh under the Volunteer Social Welfare Act 1961; holding a new office address as House No.: 385, Road No.: 1, Banani, Korail, Dhaka.

Certificate Awarding Ceremony of NDBUS Members

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The Certificate Awarding Ceremony for the participants of 1st Quarter (July-October’08) of the NDBUS members held on the 17th November 2008 at Chayanot auditorium. DIG delegates along with the project team members were presented at the ceremony. Chairmen of different ward & primary committees along with the Chairman & General Secretary of NDBUS were also presented. Salma A. Shafi, the Project Adviser; delivered her valuable speech as the inaugural speaker. DIG delegates: Thea Anderson, Technical Director; Michael Jenkins, Senior Advisor and Ashleigh Flesher, Programme Officer were the Special Guests at the Ceremony. The whole programme was conducted by the members of NDBUS. Certificates were distributed among 98 participants of different committees of NDBUS based on their successful completion of the following trainings: 4 Advocacy Training 4 Office Management Training 4 Disaster Management & Mitigation Training and 4 Computer Training A cultural function was al

Site Visit with UAP students

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Field trips were undertaken with students of Department of Architecture, U niversity of Asia Pacific (UAP), Dhaka; to Rayer Bazar & Mirpur respectively on 20th and 23rd October, 2008 with support of NDBUS members. The trips were lead by the Project Adviser Salma A. Shafi. The intent of the trips was to show the students existing low income settlements and examples of low cost housing projects for the urban poor undertaken by successive Governments and Donors. The following sites were visited; NHA (National Housing Authority) Project at Section – 1, 2; Mirpur. Bastuhara Colony (Nucleus Housing) at Section – 1, Mirpur. Baunia Bandh (Resettlement Programme) at Section – 11, Mirpur. Proposed Squatter Rehabilitation Project, Kalshi at Section – 12, Mirpur. Bhashantek Rehabilitation Project at Section – 13, Mirpur by North South Developers.

NDBUS starts its 2nd Quarter with CUS (November '08 - February '09)

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The 2nd Quarter of the “URBIS Capacity Building Support Project for NDBUS in Dhaka” begins from November 01, 2008. This phase will continue upto February 2009. During this period the following activities will be covered with participation of NDBUS members; List of Trainings: a. Advocacy b. Women Empowerment Programme c. Basic Computer Applications d. Computer Hardware Training e. Spoken English f. Income Generation Activities i. Mobile Repairing ii. Mushroom Training Study Tours: Narayanganj, Sirajganj & Kushtia to UPPR project sites.