Greater Faridpur is a poverty prone district of Bangladesh. The river Padma flows by the side of the district and consequently river erosion devours the lands and crops of the people of this poverty prone area and it has become a common phenomena. Owing to this natural disaster number of landless people and extreme poor are increasing day by day. Moreover monsoon flood is the normal disaster of this area and people cannot cope with it and again in the dry season drought condition creates an extra burden at their daily life. Along with this in greater Faridpur district it was revealed through different statistics of different institutions there is a common phenomena of polygamy, early marriage, frequent divorce for dowry, torturing and abusing of children & women, separation of children from their families without maintenance, malnutrition, hunger, injustice, illness, beggary, widow and destitute.

Contemplating the above devastating situation Society Development Committee (SDC) had emerged as a local non-governmental voluntary organization in 1988. Since its inception SDC has been continuing its endeavors for overall development in both economically and socially of the poverty stricken disadvantaged section of society particularly women, children and disabled. From the outset SDC believes and follows a crucial principle that what people have that is the base and build their own organization highlighting on existing progressive elements in the rural area. SDC’s strive is always to uplift the process and provide extra input to accelerate the process of development. In this way SDC promotes the peoples participation, which is the key element and plays a crucial role for enhancing the development process. Recently SDC has attained the age of 18 years. Over the period it has gradually expanded its agenda of activities and is implementing all out programs in 1018 villages, 196 unions and 15 Upazilas of Faridpur, Rajbari, Gopalgonj and Dhaka district. It has 450 experienced and dedicated staffs (Male-285 and female-165) and 36 branch offices and 1 head office for overall program administering and implementation commensurately. Moreover, SDC so far have been able to establish Network, linkage, collaboration, partnership with different local, national and international NGOs/donor agencies, different government institutions as well as different peoples organizations / professional groups (male and female).

Vision:
SDC’s vision is to establish just, good governance, exploitation & poverty free; gender equity and environment friendly well established Bangladesh.

Mission:
Not relief but release is the principle of SDC and it is focused on the institutional approach of the rural disadvantaged people ensuring their active participation in development process. The participation, access and control over the resources, facilities and also development process is ensured by equally men and women. Developed and strong relation with local, national and international development agencies are given emphasized. Participatory discussion and democratic system is strongly followed regarding resource management and empowerment of the poor and extreme poor for their sustainable development.

Goal :
To develop socio-economic status of the poor and extreme poor in view of poverty reduction and livelihood development through commensurate management of resources with an emphasis of women empowerment.

Objectives :
a)   To work in the interest of the distressed and oppressed population of the society with the emphasis on such fundamental needs as food, cloth, shelter, health and education..
b)  To encourage, stimulate and facilitate on building of  organizations through ensuring the participation of poor and  extreme poor with the emphasis of women participation.
c)    To motivate and mobilize small groups of target beneficiaries in rural areas and to deposit savings by them
d)      To foster both formal and non-formal education for adults and the disadvantaged children insuring community involvement in this process.
e)    To facilitate the creation of employment opportunities for the beneficiaries so that they would be able to uplift their livelihood as per their aspiration.
f)    To stabilize population growth, protect human health and make them human resources through resorting conceptual training.
g)    To organize and train the deprived section of the rural population as groups of active, patriotic, hard working and self dependent citizens of Bangladesh.
h)    To build the capacity in terms of human and financial management for their own development and to  resolve their identified problems.
i)    To encourage in joint and family based enterprise and enhance the process of sustainable income and employment for the rural poor.
j)    To raise the gender awareness from the family to the community level and to ensure women’s access to and control over resources and benefits derived from the projects.
k)    To address the issue of environment degradation and protect by raising awareness and plantation of trees.
l)    To liaise with local, national and international organization / institutions of both GO and NGO in view of establishing strong linkage which would activate for achieving it goal.
m)    To involves in relevant research activities on way to SDC’s overall institutional goal.
n)    To prepare and publish different publication and to disseminate those in view of activating and strengthening the familiarity as well as status of this organization.
o)   
To assist activities on the way to the succor of the affected population at the time of natural disasters.

Legal status of SDC :
SDC had obtained registrations from the following departments as its legal entity.
Department    Registration Number    Date of obtaining
Social welfare Department    Fa-126    July 26, 1989
NGO Affairs Bureau    533    September 16, 1991
Department of Family Planning    71/95    September 10, 1995

Governing body of SDC:
In view of commensurate administering the organization, it has 27-member general committee and 9-member executive committee. Executive committee is elected from and by the general committee. The general committee elects the executive committee for a period of two years. The general committee meets once a year; if necessary it can hold emergency meetings. The executive committee performs all responsibilities on behalf of the general committee

Executive Committee of SDC :

Chairman :
Alhaj Delwar Hossain, M.A, LL.B
Former MP (Member of Parliament)
76-Niltuly, Faridpur
Tel # 0631-62370

Vice Chairman :
Mr. Shibprosad Roy, BA (Hon’s), B.ED.
Boalmari, Faridpur.

Secretary/Executive Director
Kazi Ashraful Hassan
Tel. # 0631-65854/62229
Mobile # 0174-022987
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Treasurer :
Md. Mukter Hossain
College road, Boalmari, Faridpur.
Mobile : 01721-309010

Members :
K.M. Zahurul Hoque
Abdur Razzak Molla
Mr. Narayan Ch. Sarker
Ms. Amena Hassan
Ms. Dipti Rani Gosh