Ulashi Sreejony Sangha, acronym USS, is a non partisan , non profit and non government voluntary organization. Betrabati is the name of a small river flows over the Sharsha and Jhikargacha Upazilas of Jessore district, South-east part of Bangladesh. due to many reasons Betrabati got steam lesss and become dead. As a result the both sides of the river had to face the irrigation pronlem in need. Not only in cultivation, has the environment also been effected. To preserve the human friendly environment and smooth cultivation in the effected zone, one initiatives was seek from the existing goernment. For that, one project named Ulashi sharothi, Jodunathpur Project, supported by the Local Government, in the 8 unions situated in the both sides of Betrabati River, was started in 1st November 1976. The main objectives of the project was to re-excavated the river; increase the production of IRRI rice ensuring sufficient irrigation; increase the diversified agro production; creating employment opportunities through different project; ensuring teh participation of civil society in the development initiatives. This initiative was significcantly appreciated in the rural economic as weel as national economy. The activities and the achievement of the project was praised worthy by the national and international media, donor agency and development partners. After the completion of the projected activities. USS got institutional shape on 10th January 1984 by some devoted leading organisers of the project, to complete the other needs of the society.

Strengthening capacity of the resource poor people and empower them through establishing self-managed institution for using locally available resources environment friendly to improve livelihood.

Goal: Improvement of livelihood of the resource poor people in the community.

To build capacity on social and economical development

To organize and build community based organization

To promote livestock and pisciculture.

To promote livelihood, gender equality, human rights and good governance.

To established adolescent, landless, fishermen, marginal and ethnic groups' rights.

To protection on environment and water sources of Bangladesh.

To educate on primary health care, sanitation promotion, HIV/AIDs and arsenic mitigation.

To promote primary and non-formal education.

To break down culture of silence through excising own culture.

To promote and exercise proven technology on sustainable agricultural development.

To assist the income generating activities.

To undertake different action research on development.

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USS arranges vocational trainings for unemployed peoples in every year. USS’s vocational trainings are available for the people age between 16 and 35. Different types of skill development training are available under this program. USS also arranges other support for the trained persons for creating self employment. The machine and inputs for the enterprises are distributed among the trained young group in free of cost.

Unemployed adolescent girls are on vocational training

Aborigines mean the community living from very ancient. Like many other countries of the world, in Bangladesh aborigines are living. But most of the peoples do not accept their presence. Even state doesn’t give them support as aborigines. Nobody calculate how many aborigines are living in the country. In Jessore town, south-west border area of Bangladesh harijon (saint/barber), sweeper, hog-keeper, master, ascetic are living. Over the district near about thirty thousand aborigines are living and most of them are living in Jessore Paurosava, Monirumpur, Keshobpur, Chaugasa, Jhikorgasaand Sarsha areas. Due to the expedition and pressure of civilize community, they migrate and take shelter in inaccessible place, disconnected from general communication. They are backward class; they are living in the common properties of government as their inherent properties are few but in any time their living place may eradicate. It is our ethical responsibility to take care of them, improve their livelihoods, and in generally establish them as the oldest nation and it should be important to civilize them as human. Ulashi Sreejony Sangha (USS) works with disregarded peoples, in this way a program was running for a long time to become close to aborigines.

Climate Change issue is the most sensitive issue in this century mainly in Bangladesh it has to be affected our environment, weather, seasons, ecological biodiversity, lands, residence, food, drinking water and livelihoods. The weather of the earth is being changed for the last few decades. As a result the negative impact on human life and livelihood is clearly viewed. Scarcity of safe drinking water is one of the most important crises created from the unexpected changes of the climate. USS is continuing the efforts to develop the present condition of the climate as well as for the development. USS has been implementing these works both the funding support of national and international donor organization and own fund.