WorkCamp with river erosion community

Name: WorkCamp with river erosion community
Start: 2019-08-22
End: 2019-08-31
Location: Bangladesh

Bangladesh Environment Environment Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Climate change increases the scale of humanitarian needs. Bangladesh is situated between the Himalayas in the north and the encroaching Bay of Bengal to the south, making it prone to a various natural hazards and Bangladesh ranked 1st and 6th among 162 countries in terms of human exposure to floods and cyclones respectively. Trees can play an important role to mitigate climate change and tree reverses the impacts of land degradation. There is huge potential for tree planting, forest protection and agroforestry in Bangladesh to mitigate climate change. This camp will develop capacity of the river erosion affected community in order to make them capable to adopt with the climate change scenario, especially river erosion.

💼 What the programme involves

Symbolic demonstration on organic vegetable gardening, Environment friendly tree plantation, earth work.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will stay at private house in Char (Island) with erosion affected community. They will share common bathroom and toilet. Volunteers will be given simple vegetarian/Non-vegetarian food, to cook and manage themselves. Overseas volunteer will be hosted by SCI BD before and after the camp.

📍 About the location

Village: Char Khadom Bari, Rajoir, Madaripur

⚠️ Requirements

Working shoes, Gloves, Working dress, Sleeping bag, Insect repellent, toiletries & good humor.

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📅 Available sessions

BD-SCI 11.3

22/08/2019 → 31/08/2019

Closed

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Bangladesh

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Bangladeshi Taka (BDT / ৳)

Exchange rate

1 BDT = 0.007194 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Bangladesh Standard Time

Local time: 20:58 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

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📞 Contact us

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+32 2 888 67 13

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🗣️ Languages spoken

English Bangla