Business Desk :
Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh and Friendship (a Non Government Organization) has recently announced a partnership to tackle avoidable blindness in hard-to-reach, marginalized char (River Island) communities in northern Bangladesh.
The project aims to contribute in the reduction of avoidable blindness in the target communities by delivering quality eye healthcare services to the river islands inhabitants. This project will be providing quality eye care services as well as cataract surgeries in four northern areas: Gaibandha, Jamalpur, Bogra,Sirajganj and one southern Upazilla Shyamnagar of Satkhira, said a press release.
Naser Ezaz Bijoy, CEO of Standard Chartered Bank and Runa Khan, Founder and Executive Director of Friendship signed an agreement on behalf of their respective organizations in the city Thursday.
The scope of the project will extend beyond Friendship’s floating hospitals through Friendship Community Medic Aides who will create awareness on eye care and services, and increase the improved health seeking behaviour of the communities. This initiative follows a similar project undertaken earlier in the year, which targeted coastal communities in southern Bangladesh.
This project is being undertaken as a part of the Bank’s global Seeing Is Believing (SiB) initiative. This year Standard Chartered is celebrating 15 year of the SiB initative, which has helped over 150 million people by funding 160 eye-care projects in under-privileged communities globally. The Bank’s global flagship community initiative, SiB began its journey in 2003 right here in Bangladesh with the building of an operation theatre and a Children’s Ward at Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute & Hospital.
Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh and Friendship (a Non Government Organization) has recently announced a partnership to tackle avoidable blindness in hard-to-reach, marginalized char (River Island) communities in northern Bangladesh.
The project aims to contribute in the reduction of avoidable blindness in the target communities by delivering quality eye healthcare services to the river islands inhabitants. This project will be providing quality eye care services as well as cataract surgeries in four northern areas: Gaibandha, Jamalpur, Bogra,Sirajganj and one southern Upazilla Shyamnagar of Satkhira, said a press release.
Naser Ezaz Bijoy, CEO of Standard Chartered Bank and Runa Khan, Founder and Executive Director of Friendship signed an agreement on behalf of their respective organizations in the city Thursday.
The scope of the project will extend beyond Friendship’s floating hospitals through Friendship Community Medic Aides who will create awareness on eye care and services, and increase the improved health seeking behaviour of the communities. This initiative follows a similar project undertaken earlier in the year, which targeted coastal communities in southern Bangladesh.
This project is being undertaken as a part of the Bank’s global Seeing Is Believing (SiB) initiative. This year Standard Chartered is celebrating 15 year of the SiB initative, which has helped over 150 million people by funding 160 eye-care projects in under-privileged communities globally. The Bank’s global flagship community initiative, SiB began its journey in 2003 right here in Bangladesh with the building of an operation theatre and a Children’s Ward at Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute & Hospital.
