RedOrange Communications organized in a seminar titled ‘A Comprehensive Approach to SRHR’ at a hotel in the capital on Tuesday, a press release said
Saiful Hasan Badal, Hon’ble Secretary of Medical Education and Family Welfare Department, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; spoke as the chief guest in the seminar. It was presided over by the Director General (Grade-1) of Directorate General of Family Planning, Shahan Ara Banu, ndc.
Two-thirds of Bangladesh’s 400,000 garment workers are women, earning 3 billion US dollars in foreign exchange annually. But they do not have enough knowledge about their sexual and reproductive health and rights. Therefore, with the aim of giving special importance to the sexual and reproductive health of garment workers, the latest knowledge must be compiled, disseminated and practised.
Saiful Hasan Badal, Secretary of Medical Education and Family Welfare Department, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said, “The STITCH project has done a great job based on evidence-based research to address sexual and reproductive health rights for garment workers in an innovative way.”
Shahan Ara Banu, NDC, Director General (Grade-1) of Directorate General of Family Planning, thanked the organizers for such an effective event for the women garment workers .
Arnab Chakraborty, the moderator of the seminar and managing director of RedOrange Communications, said in his speech, “The women workers of our garment industry are not aware of their reproductive health and rights.
Also spoke at the seminar Dr. Ellen W. Bal, Vrije University Amsterdam’s STITCH project director; Mrs. Laila Karim of Ayat Skill Development Center (Focal Person-STITCH); President of Indigenous Peoples Development Service (IPDS) Mr. Sanjeev Drang; Vrije University Amsterdam’s STITCH (Stitch) Project Manager, Mrs. Esther Den Hartog and many others.
The STITCH project involved the Directorate General of Family Planning, RedOrange Communications, Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), Ayat Skill Development Center and IPDS working together under the overall supervision of Vrije University Amsterdam and developed a comprehensive curriculum. A training toolkit has also been developed for women workers in the garment industry. Also, two modules of DGFP, one module of ASDC and one module of IPDS, were inaugurated at the seminar.
