Ongoing Projects

Cox's Bazar is a district in the south-eastern part of Bangladesh. Introduction Cox´s Bazar is the most southern district of Bangladesh bordering Myanmar. The Rohingya refugees began fleeing into this area in large numbers since August 2017 following a brutal military campaign against Rohinga community in Rakhine state. As a result, the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar is the largest camp of holding over 1.1000,000 refugees around the world now.

From December 2022 PHALS (Program for Helpless And Lagged Society) is being implementing “Resilience Strengthening of Vulnerable Populations in Northern, Western and Eastern Bangladesh through a Network Approach of 5 Partner Organizations” project. An alternative Livelihood Training Center run by the local non-governmental organization PHALS started a market demand based hand and sewing training program as a means of alternative livelihood for sheltered climate refugee women under the pilot project of Khuruskul government special shelter project and Chowfaldandi union in collaboration with the international organization Malteser International. At present, in the first phase 210 women in 8 Self Reliant Group (SRG) are engaged in making products after training in various trades as follows: Embroidery-52, Tailoring- 50, Block-Batik-49, Handicraft-49 and Handloom-10

The project has the potential and impact-full of mainstreaming orphans and street children. Their basic needs are met & they will get new life through gaining knowledge, vocational skills, and life skills. They will get love and affection like parents. It will boost their confidence. They will become good assets to the community. They are developed physically & psychologically & made as a good & protective citizen.

Students/ more are getting opportunity for quality education by the congenial environment and pedagogy of PHALS Teachers. Students feels nice and very much interested to come school for education.

Since January 2021 PHALS has been implementing the together project collaborated with COAST Trust under Malteser International. With the financial support of the German Foreign Office, Welthungerhilfe and its consortium partners Caritas Germany, Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe and Malteser International are implementing the ToGETHER program (Towards Greater Effectiveness and Timeliness in Humanitarian Emergency Response) which supports localized humanitarian action in eight countries, including Bangladesh. The three-year program aims to offer an opportunity to forty local or national organizations in 8 participating countries to jointly develop and undertake capacity strengthening and exchange measures to reinforce their institutional and operational capacity to effectively respond to humanitarian crises. While it is the overall goal to contribute to the reduction of effects of disasters on local communities, the three-year program aims at strengthening local humanitarian preparedness & response capacities and promoting local leadership in humanitarian action through capacity development and exchange, joint learning, and advocacy for better access to humanitarian coordination and funding. For this purpose, the program engages five local or national humanitarian partners (LHP) to strengthen and exchange their institutional and operational preparedness and response capacities and to reinforce effective, timely, and principled humanitarian action. For this process, a capacity self-assessment has been conducted and capacity-strengthening plans would be developed for each LHP. In Bangladesh, 5 Local Humanitarian Partners (LHPs) are on board from the different areas of the Country. In Bangladesh, this project has been implemented in Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka, Satkhira, and Kurigram District. ToGETHER Project supports local actors to strengthen their capacities in humanitarian response, preparedness, coordination, and advocacy. The main objective of the program is that local Humanitarian Partners (LHP) take responsibility for activities in the humanitarian system of their respective country project for an effective and timely, accountable, and principle humanitarian action. Under the project “ToGETHER” PHALS organization is getting financial support to run the office, training, technical support, Staff salary support, and equipment support to build the organization’s capacity. Moreover, under the project, there are many working groups, the global advocacy, knowledge, and localization experience sharing through WebMo (digital Platform) as well.

From 1996, through this program we are continuing awareness and interest on education through different joyful and child friendly pedagogy. Each school is conducted by a local skilled teacher and 35 students are continuing their education in this year students are continuing their education in this year in a class. Principle of this initiative is end of the each year PHALS facilitates to enroll the student in nearest primary school by the active support of CMC as a prime responsibility.