What is Oasis for Posterity (OfP)

Initiated in 2009 as a personally funded charity by its founder Rotarian M Rabiul Islam, Oasis for Posterity (OfP) is a not-for-profit social welfare organization registered under the Ministry of Social Welfare of the government of Bangladesh.

OfP is also registered under the NGO Affairs Bureau of Bangladesh enabling it to work throughout Bangladesh with foreign donations.

OfP activities are guided by a governing body with support from local and international development advisers.

OfP's working priorities include poverty, relief, water, education, training and research, technology, agriculture & environment, income generation, health services, sanitation, sustainability and like.

Our Values

Accessibility

Ensuring equal access and shared opportunities can make present and future generations sustainably prosperous.

Resilience

Giving communities a chance to utilize their own abilities and resources in innovative ways builds community resilience and self-confidence.

Individual worth and abilities

Everyone is bestowed with abilities and potentials. Having a chance to use these can make a lasting difference in individual and community well-being.

Accountability

Accountability and transparency are foundations for all OfP activities.

Our Vision

Through inclusive socioeconomic development, present and future generations of rural Bangladeshi women, men and youth have the chance to benefit from economic empowerment.

Our MIssion

Self reliant communities and shared prosperity.

Community dialogues are important interactions with our community where we listen to resident's concerns and reflect on their dreams for better lives.

All our work occurs through community collaboration> OfP has held several community dialogues in the past three years to receive feedback about community needs and priorities. At each of these sessions, the major concern has been improving economic livelihood, especially for women. Community members have told us about environmental stresses affecting traditional agriculture-based employment, the need to protect young women from child marriage, and the importance of employment opportunities for youth, especially preparation for good jobs outside the Jaldhaka area. Through these community dialogues, as well as individual discussions with female community members, OfP Directors (both male and female) have been able to strengthen their gender-based analysis of local conditions. OfP has responded with development of the computer skills lab and scholarships for female students, but we aware that bigger, structural change is required. This has led to current emphasis on improving access to primary and post secondary education.

Who does OfP serve?

The project is based in the Rangpur division known as the monga (famine-affected) region of Bangladesh. Nilphamari is one of Ranpur's five districts and the project is located in Jaldhaka, one of the six upazillas or sub-districts of Nilphamari. The population is Jaldhaka is over 300,000 in an area about 300 square kilometers. This is very poor area. We surveyed 850 families in one village and found that 60% had a monthly family income less than 6000 taka or $2.50 USD per day.

Priorities

OfP's main focus is reducing poverty by taking issues such as better health service, production of and access to nutritious food, research, education, training and human resource development, especially for national government priorities such as modernizing agriculture and digital technologies, healthy environments including water and sanitation, and income generation for sustainable livelihoods for all Jaldhaka residents.

Partnership

OfP collaborates with organizations and individuals at home and abroad, and continuously seeks and welcomes partnerships with others working on common interests.

At present, OfP has active partnerships with individuals from Canada, USA, Yhe Netherlands, China and India. Organizational partners include A Berland, Inc.Canada, Eric Frank Trust, UK, Mid-Main Community Health Center, Canada and Simon Fraser University, Canada.