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By admin, April 20, 2012

Community Action on Natural Resource Management for Decent Living -CANDL team arranged a Food Festival as a part of Jumma Samajik-Sanskritik Samsad Boi-Sa-Bi Festival organized from 9-11 April 2012 at the field annexed with TEWFA school at Sanirvar area of Khagrachari Sadar.

CANDL project with support form Manusher Jonno Foundation constructed a traditional Adivasi House-Jum Ghar which was decorated with traditional clothes and crafts. The Jum Ghar was also used as a selling center and stage for the Chakma traditional folk singer Genhuli. 14 beneficiaries of CANDL project participated in the festival and sold a number of traditional food items like curry cooked in bamboo, traditional cakes and pitha-buiskits. The Jum Ghar was at the center of attention of all the guests and visitors. In spite of the interruption by heavy rainfall on 9th and 10 April, the Festival was crowded with thousands of peoples who visited the Jum Ghar, enjoyed foods, sports events and music.

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By admin, May 19, 2011

TUS is currently recruiting for one position in its ‘Community Empowerment and Economic Development Activities Project’, supported by UNDP’s Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility:

• Technical officer (Agriculture)

The deadline for applications is  May 30th, 2011 by 02.00 PM.

For more information on these positions and on the application process, please click here.

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By admin, May 17, 2011

Manuching Marma, TUS Support and Honey Beekeeping (A Successful Case Study)

Manuching Marma, a 28 years old woman from the village of Thoingha Para in Golabari Union under Khagrachari Sadar Upazial, is a house wife. She has two children, and her husband, who is a school teacher, earns very limited income. With her husband’s income, it was very difficult to them to manage their daily family expenses, including children educational expenditure. To overcome these difficulties, Manuching Marma was looking for an alternative income sources to support her family. However, it was very difficult to her to figure out an alternative income source as she is not educated enough.

In 2008, She was introduced with TUS development activities and received a three-day long apiculture training under the project ‘Community Empowerment and Economic Development’ supported by UNDP-CHTDF.  Through this training, Ms. Marma was first familiar with the technical process of honey beekeeping and received a beekeeping box. After receiving the training, Ms. Marma and her husband were encouraged to begin honey beekeeping, and they are continuing beekeeping with regular technical support from TUS.

Nowadays, Ms. Marma is technically sound on honey bee keeping, and she is thinking to install more bee boxes around her house. This year, she got around 13 kilogram honey, earned 6600BDT, and hopeful to be paid more money by this year. Now, she is a role model in her village, and neighbors are coming to her house and asking about her successful story.

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By admin, April 1, 2011

Cauliflower -Tamarind Pickle: A quality product of TUS-CANDL

9 March 2011. A colorful ceremony was organized by UNDP-CHTDF on CHT award of excellence chaired by the state minister of the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs, Mr. Dipankar Talukder.

In the ceremony, one of the TUS-CANDL products-Cauliflower- Tamarind Pickle was declared  as one of the 15 quality products of CHT. These 15 products were selected by a panel of experienced judges from 75 good products selected at district level from 386 products competing for the Award of Excellence.

This ‘home made product‘ branded as CANDL is prepared by the poor Self Help Group members under the supervision of the staffs of Community Action on Natural Resource Management

for Decent Living (CANDL) project-a livelihood project of TUS supported by Manusher Jonno Foundation. The formula and  technical support was taken from the Post Harvest Technology Division of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI). The product is carefully packed  in sterilized air tight bottles sold @ Tk.120.

If you like this Home Made product, please call at +88037161179. Every penny you spent  is worth  contribution for the livelihood of the poor producers.

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By admin, March 28, 2011

TUS is currently recruiting for one position in its ‘Community Empowerment and Economic Development Activities Project’, supported by UNDP’s Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility:

• Technical officer (Agriculture)

The deadline for applications is 31 March, 2011 by 01.00 PM.

For more information on these positions and on the application process, please click here.

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By admin, December 27, 2010

CANDL COLLECTION : Rediscover traditional Handicrafts and locally Processed Foods

Who doesn’t like decorating sweet home ! Specially with the items which tell about art and  traditions of diverse ethnic groups!

If one passes Chengi Square, the famous entry point of Khagrachari town of Bangladesh, up on the 1st floor of Mehebub complex, a sales and display center catches eyes readily. The center is a home for the colorful traditional handicrafts.

TUS established ‘CANDL COLLECTION’, a sales and display center run with support from Manusher Jonno Foundation for help market and promote quality handicrafts and home-processed foods.

Some items at CANDL COLLECTION

In the center, we have a good collection of diverse  woven handicrafts like  Cotton and wool blanket, belts,  small quilts from traditional back-strap looms. There are indigenous dress like pinon, hadi, design craft-ALAM, bamboo crafts and various processed foods like banana chips,  pickles, jam-jelly.
We promote the special value of the authentic and unique crafts of long tradition. We are also selling the crafts made with new designs made by the creative people involved in the art of craft making. It is also easy now to go for the real taste and flavor of foods by choosing CANDL processed foods.

Besides direct selling, we collect orders using the  display items and samples of the items we sell. We welcome orders from interested individuals, local buyers and organizations, also from the the large scale buyers or show rooms. To  communicate the orders and interests,  just make a call at +880155326351.

By buying CANDL products, one can help the poor members of the Self Help Groups to earn money for better support themselves and their families, their enterprises and improve their lives. These groups are organized by a TUS project named ‘Community Action on Natural Resource Management for Decent Living’-CANDL.

Buy from CANDL, keep trust in the creative livelihood practices of marginalized communities.

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By admin, November 17, 2010

TUS Organized a Weaving and Handicrafts Training for Communities (1 November to 9 November 2010)

Weaving and Handicrafts Group in Textile Design and Quality Weaving Techniques session

Creation and promotion of livelihood opportunities for the jumia (shifting cultivators in hilly area) people in the CHT is one of our major strategic areas in TUS.  As part of this, we recently organized a ‘Training of Trainers’ on ‘Promotion of Traditional Handicrafts and Marketing Linkage’ for members of our community-led Weaving and Handicrafts Groups.

The training was held from 1 November to 9 November 2010 under our ‘Community Action on Natural Resource Management for Decent Living’ project, supported by Manusher Jonno Foundation. Seventeen indigenous women from fourteen villages in Khagrachari Sadar and Panchari Upazila received the training. The main objective of this training was to create a pool of trainers at community levels, who are able to train other members of their Weaving and Handicrafts Groups on topics including ‘Textile Design and Quality Weaving Techniques’, ‘Cutting and Sewing’, ‘Production of Fashionable Bags and Wall Mats’, ‘Use of Different Types of Yarns and Materials’, and ‘Marketing Techniques’.

Through this training, group members have developed their skills in creating and promoting weaving and handicrafts products, and learned techniques for sharing these skills with others.  By promoting and strengthening the development of traditional handicrafts, we believe we can help to improve the lives and livelihoods of indigenous communities.

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By admin, September 29, 2010

TUS Facilitated to UnFC to Organised ‘Information Dissemination Workshop’ (20 September 2010)

Information is one of the key sources of empowerment. A piece of information from service agencies can boost up the journey of poverty alleviation of the poor section of communities. Moreover, active and effective dissemination of information from different service agencies encourages the communities’ participation towards ownership and sustainability, and along with this, it also ensures the responsiveness of services agencies.

Towards the empowering process, on 20 september 2010, we assist to the Union Facilitation Committee (UnFC) to organise an information dissemination workshop at Prachara Union in Khagrachari Sadar Upazila in support with UNDP-CHTDF. The main purpose of the workshop is to introduce the community people with government line departments (Agriculture, Fisheries, Social welfare, Youth Development Department, Cooperative, Bangladesh Krisi Bank, etc.) services, and reduce the communication gap among them.

Around 100 people from the different villages participated in this workshop and informed on different GoB line department services. The workshop was coordinated by Mr. Biva Bosu Dewan, Union Parishad Chairman, Parachara Union under Khagrachari Sadar Upazila. GoB officials shared their departmental services among the communities. After the each session, a two way ‘question and answer’ session was organized to reduce the communication gap between community and service providers.

In before, we also assisted to organise such dissemination workshops in participation with communities at Khagrachari, Golabari and Bhaibonchara Union Facilitation Committees in Khagrachari Sadar Upazila.

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By admin, July 24, 2010

***Please note that the deadline for applications for these positions has now passed***

TUS expanded its vacancies deadline up to 4 August 2010. Interested candidates are requested to send their CV by 5.00pm on the same day. Short list will be announced on 5 August 2010 at 4.00pm at TUS Notice Board. Only short-listed candidates will be invited to attend the written test to be held on 6 August 2010 at 10:00am at TUS hall room.

For more information on this positions and on application process, please click here.

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By admin, July 13, 2010

TUS is currently recruiting for three positions in its ‘Community Empowerment Project’, supported by UNDP’s Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility:

• Technical Officer (Fisheries) – Khagrachari Sadar Upazila
• Technical Officer (Agriculture) – Laxmichari Upazila
• Technical Officer (Livestock) – Laxmichari Upazila
  

The deadline for applications is 22 July 2010.

For more information on these positions and on the application process, please click here.