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Bangladesh wins international accolades for DAISY Standard Accessible Reading Materials
Bangladesh has won the world’s most prestigious IT award called the “World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Prize-2017”. On 13 June 2017, in a grand ceremony at the headquarters of…
Roundtable meeting on “The role of civil society in curving violent extremism” held at Chakaria
YPSA-Community Engagement in Countering Violent Extremism in Cox’s Bazar (CEVEC) Consortium organized a Roundtable meeting on “The role of civil society in curving Violent and Extremism” on 8th June, 2017…
Budget allocation for the people with disabilities treated as conventional kindness
YPSA, Sitakund Federation of DPOs, Access Bangladesh and Bangladesh DRF Grantee Coordination Committee jointly organized a sharing meeting on “Post-budget reactions: National budget 2017-2018 and status of people with disability”….
Human chain to protest budget proposal on tobacco held in Chittagong
YPSA with the support of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, arranged a human chain on 6th June’17 in front of Chittagong Press club to express the reaction and protest the budget…
YPSA observes World No Tobacco Day 2017
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the new guidelines for global development. Formerly, at the 70th UN General Assembly, the global leaders have pledged to reach 17 goals with 169 promises by…
Shearing meeting on disabled-friendly budget for Sitakund Municipality
YPSA and Federation of DPOs Sitakund organised a shearing meeting with the Sitakund Municipality on Disabled-friendly budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year of Sitakund Municipality. The meeting was held at…
YPSA honored with International Excellence Award at The London Book Fair
On behalf of Bangladesh, YPSA earns International Excellence Award for the first time at the world largest book fair in London “The London Book Fair”. Watch this feature report…
Disabled-friendly city corporation budget demanded
YPSA arranged a workshop on “Disabled-friendly budget allocation for the City Corporation” on 20 May at the conference room of YPSA-HRDC Chittagong with the support of Access Bangladesh Foundation and…
YPSA celebrates its 32nd anniversary
YPSA celebrated its 32nd anniversary on 20 May 2017 in each field office, branch office, link organization including Head office and Dhaka office. To mark the day, various events were…
Human chain demanding higher tax rate on all tobacco products
“In order to protect the people from harmful effect of tobacco, excessive taxation on tobacco products will be proposed in the next budget session at the National Parliament.”, said Alhaj…
Concept note for 32nd anniversary celebration of YPSA
Being inspired by the spirit of International Youth Year 1985, proclaimed by United Nations, some socially conscious youths of Sitakund Upazilla under Chittagong District of Bangladesh began to motivate and…
YPSA’s innovative project rewarded as 2017 UN WSIS prizes champion
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced 90 Champions around the world for the prestigious WSIS Prizes 2017 contest. DAISY-standard Accessible Reading Materials for Students with Visual and Print Disabilities project by…
Department of Social Services team visits YPSA
A Team of 39th Batch of Basic Training Courses of Department of Social Services Officers visited YPSA on 05 May 2017. The team includes about 40 officials from Department of Social Services….
How safe the coastal belt of the country is – Md. Arifur Rahman : A channel 24 TV feature
A channel 24 TV feature on disaster risk in coastal areas in Bangladesh and effect of climate change. Md. Arifur Rahman, chief executive of YPSA was the host while…
We will work for Tobacco-free Chittagong City Corporation by 2040 – Mayor A.Z.M Nasir Uddin
As a part of institutionalization of the tobacco control initiatives, Chittagong City Corporation has been allocating budget for implementing tobacco control program since fiscal year 2014-2015. In the current fiscal…
YPSA hosted a disaster simulation and rescue drill for the students in Cox’sbazar
Natural Disaster is the common phenomena in Bangladesh especially in the Cox’s Bazar since it is a coastal area. Every year people of this area face different types of natural…
Administrative measures will be taken for enforcing tobacco control law: Divisional Commissioner
“Necessary administrative measures will be taken for implementing tobacco control law in Chittagong division” as declared by Ms. Syeda Sarowar Jahan, Divisional Commissioner (Acting), Chittagong, in a sharing meeting on…
Director of NGO Affairs Bureau visits YPSA
Golam Meshbah Uddin, Director of NGO Affairs Bureau, Prime Minister’s Office of Bangladesh visited YPSA during 6-7 April, 2017. He attended a sharing meeting on NGOAB regulations and compliance issues…
ToT on Leadership Development organized by YPSA CEVEC Consortium
A 3-day Training of Trainers (ToT) on Leadership Development held on 28 March-30 March, 2017 at YPSA HRDC Training Centre, Chittagong which was organized by YPSA CEVEC Consortium under the…
Ensure maternal and child health care access in hard-to-rich areas – Chairman of Khagrachari District Council
Raising more awareness on maternal and child health care access among the people in hard-to-rich areas, maternal and infant mortality can be reduced significantly. Beside this health care service, education…