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  • Footsteps is now supporting more than 60,000 students in 100 schools across Bangladesh with Safe Water access.

    Project Trishna, a core program of Footsteps Bangladesh, a next-generation organization, has reached
    Goal100- ensuring access to safe and clean drinking water for 100 schools across Bangladesh. In April
    2019, Footsteps declared a commitment of reaching 100 schools with safe water access through Project
    Trishna, which the project has achieved amidst a global pandemic on April 4, 2023 with its latest school
    water system installation in Kewdala Government Primary School in Narayanganj. Project Trishna is one
    of Footsteps’ core development programs which empowers communities with safe water and sanitation
    access. Implemented in 2015, Project Trishna takes a unique approach in implementing safe water
    systems in schools, hospitals, public spaces and households and teaches communities how to maintain
    these systems in order to ensure the water solution sustains in the long run. The project is supported by
    both local and international companies and individuals, which includes the City Bank Limited, BURO
    Bangladesh, Olympic Industries, United Group, etc. In 2021, the project partnered with global celebrity
    singer Shawn Mendes in ensuring safe water for schools in Northeast Bangladesh. Access to safe
    drinking water has been a primary social challenge in communities across Bangladesh, especially for
    children who are at risk of falling sick and missing classes due to drinking contaminated water. Project
    Trishna is addressing this challenge by creating a unique WASH solution which ensures safe water for a
    school for a lifetime.


    “Since our declaration of Goal100 in 2019, our team has been working tirelessly to achieve this feat over
    the past 4 years. We faced many hurdles in the middle, especially the COVID-19 Pandemic where
    schools remained closed for several months, but we are ecstatic of finally reaching this goal which would
    not have been possible without our partners and stakeholders. Now that Goal100 is achieved, we will
    now set a new target to achieve and work towards empowering everyone in Bangladesh with safe water
    and sanitation access, step by step” said Shah Rafayat Chowdhury, co-founder and president of
    Footsteps Bangladesh.


    Footsteps Bangladesh has been actively working in Bangladesh’s development sector since 2013 and has
    impacted over 400,000 people across 33 districts in Bangladesh with WASH, Climate Action, and Public
    Health initiatives. Project Trishna is currently ensuring safe water for over 60,000 children in 100 schools
    across 9 districts in Bangladesh. The organization received the Diana Award, AFS Prize for Young Global
    Citizens, Joy Bangladesh Youth Award and has been enlisted on Forbes 30 Under 30 List for its
    innovative work in Bangladesh’s development sector.

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  • This Ramadan you can ensure safe drinking water for the masses through Footsteps

    Footsteps Bangladesh, a renowned next-generation organisation, is extensively working to ensure safe water access in marginalised communities across the country through its venture Project Trishna.

    Since 2015, Project Trishna has been working to create water accessibility by installing filtration units in government and non-government schools where safe water availability is very limited due to high levels of contamination.

    Besides providing water facilities to schools children, thousands of people in several public places and government hospitals have been served every day through the water filtration units that Footsteps has provided.

    Since last year, the project has expanded its operation by setting up tubewells in rural communities where the people struggle to meet their daily need for water in their regular activities. Till date, Footsteps impacted over lives of 3,00,000 people in 27 different districts through its projects.

    Like every year, Footsteps has launched a month-long campaign in this holy month of Ramadan where they are accepting donations and Sadaqah from the loving hands of mass people. Taslima Begum is one of the beneficiaries whose family has been provided with a tubewell by a portion of the funds Footsteps collected from last year’s campaign.

    Following this year, Footsteps is working diligently with an aim to ensure water accessibility for 5,00,000 people across Bangladesh this year only. With your participation in the campaign, you can spread and share their joy across boundaries where people are devoid of even the basic necessities of life.

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