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Chapainawabganj Community, Bangladesh

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Chapainawabganj Community, Bangladesh
  • Population530,592
  • Villages165
  • Temp 23°C
Chapainawabganj is a community of more than half a million people in north-west Bangladesh. Families here work hard, but crushing poverty and a lack of basic services mean every day is a struggle to survive. Kids don’t have the nutritious food, care, and support they need to grow up healthy, safe, and strong.

Sponsorship is helping to tackle 3 big challenges in Chapainawabganj:
  1. Many kids suffer from malnutrition.
  2. Children are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.
  3. Families can’t access early childhood education.
 

Building a brighter future together


By sponsoring children in Chapainawabganj, you are making an incredible difference in the lives of vulnerable children and their families.

Your support is helping improve the physical, emotional, spiritual and social well-being of the most vulnerable children in the Chapainawabganj community.

Through decades of experience, we have proven that the most effective way to help a child is to strengthen their entire community, caring for every child along the way.

Together, we are tackling the hard problems, changing mindsets and behaviours, and addressing the root causes of poverty. By working alongside children, families and community members, we are helping create lasting change that will benefit generations to come.

Your support will make a life-changing impact for children in Chapainawabganj

You’re helping families access nutrition support, learn healthy feeding practices, and identify growth concerns early so children can grow up healthy and strong.

You’re helping train children and adults on child rights and child protection, so we can all help keep children safe.

You're helping create safe, joyful early learning spaces where every child can play, learn, and be a kid, including children with disabilities.

For every child you sponsor, four more children in their community benefit too.


Meet some of the children and families you'll stand alongside

"We simply wish to survive with two decent meals a day" Rayhan (age 16)

"We simply wish to survive with two decent meals a day" Rayhan (age 16)

Rayhan should be in school. Instead he's a painter, working long days because his dad got sick and the family needed every taka they could earn. His younger brother left school in Year Five, his sister was married off as a child, and by the end of every month the food runs out. Through sponsoring a child, like Rayhan, communities like his can build the protection systems that support families struggling to make ends meet.
"This solitary pond is the heartbeat of our village" Diganta and his mum

"This solitary pond is the heartbeat of our village" Diganta and his mum

There is one source of clean water in Diganta's village. When it runs dry, families turn to the pond, where cattle bathe and children come home with diarrhoea, typhoid and skin infections that won't heal. With your sponsorship of just one child like Diganta, all this changes. Clean water comes within reach, safe early learning spaces can open their doors, and the foundations every child's future is built upon, become more real.
"My children are starving from within"
Read Juliyara's story

Farhan, 2, with his mum Juliyara and sister

Transforming communities together

We will partner with the Chapainawabganj community until 2038. Almost all of our staff working in Bangladesh are Bangladeshi. Real change doesn’t happen in a season. It happens over years, by listening, building trust, and turning up again and again until the work belongs to the community itself. Our job, and yours, is to walk alongside them and make sure they have what they need to keep going.

Started 2026

Completing 2038

Did you know?

Did you know?

Bangladesh sits on the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the largest river delta in the world.

An extensive network of rivers and canals weaves through the country, and for many communities, daily life moves by boat.

People travel to school, work and market on the water as much as on the road. It's also one of the lowest-lying countries on earth.

Traditional houses are often built on raised platforms or stilts, both to keep cool in the heat and to stay dry when the rivers rise.