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Mobilizing disadvantaged grassroots populations into democratic, self-sustaining Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and strengthening local government institutions.
RUSTIC organizes small groups comprising 20 to 25 poor women and men into primary units, which are later federated into village development committees. These grassroots bodies elect their own leaders, formulate weekly savings plans, and advocate for community entitlements.
Promoting community self-reliance through internal capital formation, pooled procurement of agricultural inputs, and leasing of common-property water bodies for community aquaculture.
Formed local-based farmers' association to market products, handle capital crises, and ensure direct fair prices.
Partnership with BROTEE to strengthen citizens' rights, voter awareness, advocacy, and monitoring of national & local elections.
Strengthening local government institutions and assisting 2,800 vulnerable cyclone-affected women in the Morrelgonj area.
Providing functional literacy, vocational trade competencies, and rehabilitating working children from hazardous urban labor.
Supported by Seven Hills Global Outreach (SHGO) since 2011, RUSTIC operates a dedicated centre in Sonadanga slum, Khulna for adolescent girls.
Adolescent girls receive quality education, IT-based skill development, vocational training, and health counseling to ensure nutritional and social wellbeing.
Non-formal primary education (NFPE) and rehabilitation centers for children engaged in dangerous occupations (automobile welding, metal workshops, tanneries, and fish processing plants).
Children receive flexible classroom schooling, mid-day nutrition, healthcare counseling, and stipend support while transitioning back into formal government schools.
Introducing modern saline-tolerant agricultural practices, sustainable aquaculture, livestock micro-enterprises, and financial self-sufficiency.
Pesticide-free Integrated Pest Management (IPM), pheromone traps, and organic vegetable production on homestead dykes.
Freshwater lobster (Galda/Bagda) post-larvae (PL) nursing in floating cages and eco-friendly polyculture.
Black Bengal goat rearing, beef fattening, de-worming vaccinations, and animal husbandry training.
Adopting alternative agriculture in saline water areas with guidelines from Government departments.
Providing micro-credit revolving loans, business incubation, quality control, and direct supply-chain linkages for village women artisans, grocery shop owners, fish vendors, and tailoring graduates.
Flagship environmental innovations: Solid waste-to-biofertilizer, Shahpur Bazar compost plant, vermicompost, biogas, and community WASH.
In long-term partnership with Khulna City Corporation (KCC), RUSTIC operates a door-to-door kitchen waste collection system across Wards 16, 17, and 18. RUSTIC collects between 3.0 to 3.5 metric tons of organic municipal kitchen waste per day from over 4,200 households.
At the 47-decimal Aerobic Compost Plant, segregated organic waste is converted into 1.6 to 1.8 metric tons of superior-grade bio-fertilizer daily, replacing chemical fertilizers and mitigating methane greenhouse gas emissions.
Visit Compost Plant (Profile Page 16)
Collection Waste (Profile Page 16)
Recycling organic solid waste, protecting aquatic ecology, and conserving indigenous snail bio-diversity.
Supplied 120 families with home-grown Biogas Plants under RUWPP with PKSF & BCCTF for clean cooking gas and bio-fertilizer.
Installing arsenic-free deep tube-wells (800–1000+ ft), constructing pond sand filters (PSF), sanitary latrines, and community hygiene mobilization.
Safeguarding vulnerable coastal children, supporting senior citizens, and delivering mobile maternal-child healthcare clinics.
Preventing child exploitation, eliminating hazardous child labour, and merging protection initiatives with RUSTIC school activities.
Promoting care, nursing, and respect for neglected elderly, and sinking sweet water tube-wells with SHGO to beat salinity and arsenic.
Running an adolescent education center for girls and providing essential primary health support for women and children with SHGO.
Large-scale roadside tree plantation and embankment green belts executed under the Integrated Food for Development (IFFD) project with CARE-Bangladesh and USAID.
Under the IFFD project, RUSTIC planted and maintained 16,500 tree saplings along 16.5 km of rural roadside embankments across Sharankhola and Mongla Upazilas. The plantation included valuable timber and environmental species: Mehagony, Raintree, Chambal, and Pahari Neem.
Over 60% of the trees survived cyclones Sidr and Aila. Today, the standing timber and ecological valuation of these mature surviving trees exceeds BDT 300,000,000.00 (30 Crore Taka).
Tree Distribution (Profile Page 22)
Advocacy Human Chain (Profile Page 23)
Fostering servant leadership, modern agricultural entrepreneurship, and civic volunteerism among coastal youth.
In partnership with Winrock International (USA) and Seven Hills Global Outreach (SHGO), RUSTIC hosted distinguished international youth specialist Dr. Gary Lee Heusel to design the Positive Youth Development (PYD) framework.
RUSTIC now has a Youth Group consisting of 2 Trainers, 3 Leaders and 27 agricultural entrepreneurs across aquaculture, beef fattening, betel leaf production, dairy, poultry, and rice.
