WER WIR SIND

MATI is a Non-Government Organization (NGO), established in 1997 and registered under Department of social services in 1998 and under NGO affairs Bureau in 2000. From the beginning, poverty reduction through people’s empowerment, especially of women, and self-defined, participatory development methods were at the core of Mati’s activities. Since those early days, Mati’s activities have continuously expanded, and its mission, vision and goals have been fine-tuned over the years.

At present Mati works with 88 cooperative groups having 2000+ members in 60 villages and 30 wards of Mymensingh City Corporation of Mymensingh, Sherpur and Jamalpur districts of Bangladesh focusing on the people living with multidimensional poverty in the hard-to-reach areas prioritizing the women & girls, persons with disabilities, marginalized farmers, children, elderly people, religious & ethnic minorities, Dalits, in both rural and urban areas. Under all of her programs Mati works with about 70,000 direct beneficiaries through different programs while the indirect beneficiaries are more than 250,000. Among the direct beneficiaries 53% are women, 29% are men and 18% are children while about 70% of the Cooperative members are women.

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Vision

MATI envisions that the people living in Bangladesh are free from poverty, hunger & discriminations and enjoy all human rights.

 

Mission

To develop & implement sustainable, locally grounded & participatory programmes to serve the needs of most disadvantaged & marginalized people of Bangladesh in the fields of sustainable agriculture, basic health, education in addition to skill & vocational training, resilience to disasters & climate change and economic advancement including shaping up the value chain. Gender equality, intersectionality and DO NO HARM principles have to be respected in all program design and implementation.

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Objectives

• To address the needs of people living with extreme poverty and minority groups

• To develop cooperative as a peoples’ organization for economic Empowerment specially for target women

• To promote climate resilient sustainable agriculture and establish a value chain of organic products of the smallholder farmers

• To promote market access of the agricultural and non-agricultural products of the cooperative members through entrepreneurship development

• To improve and extend the primary health services and alternative healthcare methods.

• To promote quality education in addition to skill & vocational training,

• To improve peoples’ resilience to disasters and climate change and response to emergency needs of them.