RAJSHAHI, Jan 7, 2021 (BSS) – Speakers at a programme observed that
collective efforts of all government and non-government organisations
concerned are very important for strengthening the grassroots level anti-drug
campaign.
They also opined that there is no alternative to make all the existing
movements and efforts of preventing drug abuse effective and fruitful to
protect the young generation from further degradation. The observation came
at an orientation for community action group members held at Valukgachhi
Union Parishad Complex Hall Room under Puthiya Upazila in Rajshahi district
on Wednesday.
Light House Consortium and Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) jointly organised
the meeting in association with Ashakta Punarbashan Sangstha (APOSH) and Nari
O Shishu Kalyan Society (NSKS) under the ‘Drug Abuse Resistance and
Understanding – DARAU’ project and Promoting Advocacy and Rights (PAR).
Counterpart International is extending technical support while USAID and
UKAID financial support to the project being implemented in eight wards of
Rajshahi City Corporation and all nine upazilas in Rajshahi district and all
six upazilas and four municipalities in Natore district.
Around 25 persons consisting members of the civil society, professional
leaders, journalists and development activists from various stakes concerned
joined the meeting.
Union Parishad Chairman Takbir Hassan, social watchdog Advocate Abdus
Samad, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator of the project Subrata
Kumar Paul and its upazila coordinator Firoj Kabir addressed the meeting as
focal persons.