Bangla-German Sampreeti (BGS) is a national, non-government, non-profit and voluntary development organization which has been involved with diverse development initiatives and interventions for the last 30 years. The organization was initiated by a group of economists, writers, scientists, development practitioners and social philanthropists. It came into existence as “Bangla-German Sampreeti” in December 1990 and afterward registered with the Directorate of Social Services and NGO Affairs Bureau in the year 1991 and 1992 respectively. BGS starts its journey with a massive response to emergency by providing relief and rehabilitation activities for the affected communities of coastal areas of Cox’s Bazar district after the devastating cyclone hit them on 29 April 1991. BGS has subsequently diverted its attention to other activities in the development arena and other districts as well.
We envision a future in Bangladesh where every person’s rights are fully respected and where everybody can live with economic independence and social dignity.
We inspire and empower people and communities to achieve economic independence, and build a society grounded in social justice, equity and dignity.
The goal of the organization is to poverty reduction and employment generation for the poor and marginalized families and thereby create a society based on justice, equity and self- respect through involvement of the poor disadvantaged group of people in various development activities and through creation of awareness about various problem and issues that concern the individuals, the community and the country at large.
Our core values are:
BGS focuses on Specific socio-economic issues that perpetuate poverty and deprivation and designs significant objectives based on focused programs.
BGS practices integrated and participatory way of implementation of its development activities. Since BGS believes in the progress and betterment of all human being, so it works for the development of community as a whole. It applies both community and target group approaches in its development efforts. But there are certain groups of people in our society that needs special attention. These people are the marginal farmers, day labours, street boys, widows and other excluded group in the society.
The development activities of BGS are designed for the poor and disadvantaged people especially the landless and marginal farmers, the fisherman, the weavers, the potters and day laborers who mostly earn their livelihood from physical labor. We always give importance to ethnic minority; disable people and other disadvantage group in selection of beneficiaries. Community development, disaster response and awareness raising programs like non-formal education, disaster risk reduction, and prevention of drug abuse, environment preservation, and issues relating to community health activities are designed to cover the whole community. Therefore the whole community can be said to be the beneficiaries of such activities. BGS programs are deliberately discriminated in favor of women and girls who constitute more than 75% of the total beneficiaries.
