Gano Milan Foundation

Gono Milan Foundation (GMF) is a Not-for Profit Non-Government Organization (NGO) founded in January 1981 with the initiative of a group of young benevolent people of Khalishpur village under Bishnopur Union in Sadar Upazila of Bagerhat district with an aim to contributing the poor, deprived and disadvantaged section of poor people, especially the children, adolescent girls, women and disabled people towards improved health and livelihood. Primarily, Gano Milan Foundation (GMF) was named as Gono Milan Kendra (GMK). Due to maintaining conditions of registration with the Joint Stock Company, its name has been changed as GMF from GMK in year 2006.

GMF is dedicated to people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, diseases and inequalities. Poor and extreme poor people (Children, adolescent, women and men) from all castes with especial focus to outcastes socially excluded and ethnic minority groups; physically challenged and elderly people living in the hard to reach areas in the locality. It envisages a society where all people have equal opportunities for resources, improving health, human rights, dignity and security while its mission is to enhance capacities and leadership qualities among poor people in the locality through building their own institutions, awareness raising, imparting quality education and training towards improving health, livelihood and self-reliance considering the existing and emerging needs of the target people.

Vision:
A society with socio economic justice, secular culture, humanity, life friendly environment and gender equity where every body lives a life in its fullness.

Mission:
To improve the living standard of the poor and distressed people emphasizing the women and children through making them socially and economically empowered, aware of socio-economic justice and human rights by implementing sustainable human development programs, advocating for establishment of their rights and secular and tolerant to different opinion culture.

Objectives:
To achieve the mission and vision GMF has set up the following objectives:
i) To mobilize, organize and encourage the distress poor for their active participation in their development.
ii) To make them aware of present condition through formal and non-formal education and training so that they can identify analyze and solve their problems.
iii) To assist the target people for making own capital, creating employment and income generating activities by providing with credit support to whom, it requires.
iv) To promote and establish Human Rights and provide legal support to enhance their moral courage and to involve them in moral economical and spiritual pursuits both individually and collectively.
v) To promote health status of the poor people and to control the population growth through imparting primary health care and family planning education.
vi) To develop interest and increase the participation of women in development process.
vii) To eradicate social barriers, religious superstitions, socio-economic injustice through education and motivation.
viii) To promote and establish child rights through reducing child labor, torture, child abuse, child trafficking, early marriage, HIV/AIDS, drug abuse etc.
ix) To lessen social diseases like dowry, divorce, abandon, separation, torturing of women and children through increasing and changing social values and enabling participation of women in decision-making process.
x) To develop the environmental situation through making people aware of climate change and social forestation.
xi) To introduce and improve environment friendly agriculture.