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October 15, 2000

  

Khagrachhari, Oct 14 (UNB) – Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) has launched a programme styled as “Local Capacities for Peace Project (LCPP)” in three districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

 

The programme, first of its kind in the country, is aimed at bridging the gap between the tribal and non-tribal people and ensuring their peaceful coexistence through creating an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect.

 

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society is providing assistance to implement the LCPP programme in CHT of Bangladesh as well as Tajikistan and Ethiopia.

 

Sources said it is an international programme and the concept has been taken as a pilot programme to institutionalize post-conflict relief and rehabilitation experience.

 

Some 180 people of three hill districts were given training on first aid and low cost health intervention in February this year and 50 of them had been given appointments as part time workers under the programme.

 

A total of 600 workers, one-third of whom are women, would be given training under the programme. Both the tribal and non-tribal will be ensured in the training process from where a total of 150 people, 50 from each district, will be recruited finally.

 

A daylong workshop on LCPP was held at Khagrachhari recently.

 

The workshop identified eight problems under the programme. These are: area poverty, lower level of education, poor health condition, poor water and sanitation, vulnerability of women, environmental degradation, social and religious conflict and rehabilitation of the returnees and internally displaced people.

 

The inaugural session of the workshop was addressed by LCPP programme Co-ordinator Netor Arnest Cumming, Chief Co-ordinator Upandra Lal Chakma, president of Jumma Refugee Welfare Association, Senior Advisor of BDRCS Anwar Hoshen.

 

The CHT Development Project Co-ordinator Mominul Hoshen, Nazmul Azam Khan, District Red Crescent Unit Officer Khalilur Rahman and Khagrachhari District Unit Secretary Kongjari Chowdhury also attend the programme.

 

Work on the project has begun in June this year and is expected to be completed by next June.


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