SERAC-Bangladesh has organized a SRHR in Learning Visit for the 3rd and 4th batch 16 Youth SRHR Champions at Cox Bazar on 16-20 November 2024. The visit was focused on how other NGOs and volunteers in Rohingya Communities are working with the same objective as Improving SRHR in Dhaka project. On the 1st day they visited 2 camps including community sessions, Islamic sessions by religious leaders and facility visits. They observed how health community workers of that area work and what are the differences between their approaches, strategies and works.
On the 2nd day of the learning visit, an experience sharing meeting was organized with project staff and Ipas Ukhiya office with staff personnel, stakeholders, and 16 Youth SRHR Champions Sapna Rani Mondol, Zohra Akter, Md. Sojol Ahfaq, Sumaia Akter Usha, Md. Nafizur Rahman, Kohinoor Akter, Jibon Ahmed, Abdur Rahman Rakib, Abida Sultana, Sumaiya Akter, Tonmoy Saha, Fahima, Laboni Akter, Aniva Akter, Sadia Islam, and Taisir Al Alif. Besides, SERAC-Bangladesh’s Program Manager Tasnia Ahmed, SBCC Officer Kakoli Akter and Rabiul Islam were also present at the meeting. Youth SRHR Champions shared the differences between types of services for women and girls, awareness about reproductive health, how both men and women are engaged in Urban and Humanitarian settings.
In the introductory meeting, Youth SRHR Champions shared how they start working as Projonon Shasthya Bondhu under SERAC-Bangladesh’s Improving SRHR in Dhaka project through receiving orientation on family planning, post abortion care, pubertal changes, health and hygiene and community engagement strategies and how they arrange community sessions and what are the referral system in Dhaka city that they are working on under this project. The project is technically supported by Ipas Bangladesh and funded by Global Affairs Canada via HealthBridge Foundation of Canada.