Message from Founder & CEO

Aungkur Palli Unnayan Kendra is functional and has completed a 26 years mark. Although Aungkur Palli Unnayan Kendra began its journey in 1989, officially the programs were initiated later in 1991.

During the span of it’s over quarter century journey, Aungkur’s different development programs bagged numerous distinctions from across it’s working area for its unique features and excellent achievements in serving a large number of people enabling them to overcome poverty.

Aungkur could reach every corner of it’s working area with its development services making easy access of eligible poor people especially women to avail the services. Aungkur’s development programs was able to cover numerous of clients with water sanitation, non formal and formal education, health services, child growth monitoring, micro-credit program, climate change, sustainable agriculture, fish culture, nursery program, forestation, environment development, community mobilization, social institution formation programs.

The Micro-Finance program of Aungkur was expanded at a significant scale to provide opportunity to easy access to financial services to the rural women besides healthcare, primary education, sanitation etc. to the under-served communities across the working area.

We would like take the opportunity of expressing our sincere thanks to the Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) for its cooperation in implementing the micro-credit program successfully.

We would like to express our deep gratitude to the community people for their participation and cooperation, my colleagues for their hard works, dedication and commitment, local administration, elected bodies, Max Foundation, Lamp Foundation, Paraclox, Dutch Bangla Bank Ltd., Mutual Trust Bank Ltd., Standard Bank Ltd. and the advisers for all sorts of assistance and cooperation they provided to Aungkur for different programs and projects implementation. We are thankful to the honorable members of the Executive Committee and General Committee for their path routing guidance and support.

Md. Ayub Ali Talukder

Chief Executive Officer