Urgent need for health care
Public healthcare in rural Bangladesh is severely hampered by a critical shortage of trained doctors, inadequate facilities, and high out-of-pocket costs, compelling many villagers to rely on unqualified informal providers. This combination of limited access and poor quality leads to delayed or forgone treatment and poorer health outcomes for the majority of the population.Hope Arises Schools organize twice a year Community Health Care days for the students, their siblings and their mother. Trained medical doctors examine the students, provides health education and over the counter medication.
Need for ground water
Intensifying typhoons, exacerbated by climate change, are a major threat to fresh water in coastal regions by driving storm surges that quickly salinate surface water and shallow aquifers. To combat this, communities urgently need to invest in drilling deeper, properly cased groundwater wells to access more resilient freshwater layers. This shift to protected, deeper groundwater is a critical climate adaptation measure for securing safe drinking water for vulnerable populations.
Hope Arises Schools have joined with the local community to dig a ground water well to secure access to clean, fresh water even during typhoon season.
