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Activities of GRAMAUS Major Activities :
Activities In details 1. Group Formation, awareness and saving habits buildup
The information about present Group members and their savings
2. Rural Credit Program (RCP)
The credit program was primarily started with the collaboration of APHD- Hong Kong and presently using the money flow of PKSF. To gear up the RCP programme activities an amount of Tk. 2,50,00,000/- has been received from PKSF by February/ 2004. Group savings are being used partially in Rural Credit Program. Present Status of RCP
3. Smallholder Agricultural Improvement Project ( SAIP )
Details information about SAIP is given in following Table :
4. Non Formal Primary Education (NFPE)
For a steady growth and development process of the socio economic condition of our country there is no alternative of education. Only a educated person can play an important role in development activity. From 1994 GRAMAUS in collaboration with BRAC offering child education in nearest villages. Children of the poor families are getting education through this project. GRAMAUS opened ten children education center within 1994-1996, 1997-2000 and 2000-2003. By this time all the students have passed class III and IV and admitted to Government Primary school in class IV and V. GRAMAUS has also the follow up program and monitoring the present status of those poor boys/girls. At present 15 children education centers are running by GRAMAUS. he Present Status of the Child Education Centers of GRAMAUS
5. Use of safe water and Sanitation Program
To make the program successful following steps are followed: Motivation Program
Tube-well distribution
Latrine Production and Distribution
5. Gramaus integrated Development initiative (GIDI) is a Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, Apiculture, Dairy and Poultry based initiative. Through this programme GRAMAUS is trying to organize the beneficiaries and make them self-reliant by creating awareness among them besides it works as a income generating mechanism for making GRAMAUS self reliant and self sustained organization. The site of GIDI project is 3 km. away from Phulpur sadar, and established in 17 acres land by the help and recommendation of PKSF. Newly introduced technologies in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, apiculture, dairy and Poultry fields are being implemented and demonstrated in the project area with the help of DAE. The GRAMAUS itself generating revenue from this project and on the other hand the technologies are being transferred among the beneficiaries through this project. The Activities of GIDI project implemented by GRAMAUS
6. Social Forestry and Nursery
Activities on Nursery Development
Social forestation is another vital activity should come to focus. The program is related with the development of nurseries in the area. GRAMAUS do two kinds planting under social forestry program :
Considering roadside plantation the organization planted 23,700 saplings of different species covering a linear distance of 23.7 km through its beneficiaries Under homestead plantation program , 43,900 saplings of different kinds of fruit trees have been planted covering 9,780 farm families. Road side plantation are following. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The program has been
continuing since 1988 in order to form structural organization in
villages, Unions and in Upazilas by organizing the poor village people
specially the women. To organize them various issue wise discussions are
being held weekly in order to create awareness among the beneficiaries.
The members emphasized on savings in order to develop own capital for
their emergency need. In weekly meeting each member deposits Taka 10/-
as savings. Issue wise discussion also held to take decision for solving
their internal problems. 
Like male member of the
family rural poor women are not able to contribute financially to their
family due to lack of cash money . GRAMAUS had started Rural Credit
Program in 1993 through which credits are provided to the smaller
organized group to increase income by using surplus labor in
off-season. 
To increase agriculture
production and daily income of landless, marginal, small farmer, adibashi ( Indigenous People) and charland group in remote working area
GRAMAUS initiated SAIP Project in 2000. Financed by IFAD and through
the support of DAE, PMO of SAIP, Sonali Bank GRAMAUS implementing
SAIP project smoothly. 
The main objective of
Sanitation program is to motivate safe water utilization in all family
works, to keep nit and clean in personal, family based and social life
and also use of Latrine in each level. To create social awareness GRAMAUS continues this program from 1989 in collaboration with
NGO-Forum, Mymensingh region. In order to motivate people for using safe
water and sanitary latrine GRAMAUS is trying to involve all kinds of
people to this program. 
The organization already
has given Tk. 6.5 lakh credit to the beneficiaries for development of
nurseries in its working area, in addition to generate revenue GRAMAUS
is running its own nursery in the office premises commercially . With
the help of DAE training programs are arranged time to time for the
interested people for establishing nursery . Till now more then 100
people received such training from GRAMAUS. The following table shows
picture on the nursery activities.