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Paikgachha Community, Bangladesh

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Paikgachha Community, Bangladesh
  • Population286,209
  • Villages221
  • Temp 23°C
Paikgachha is a coastal community in south-west Bangladesh, where families rely on farming, fishing and day labour to survive. But flooding and rising soil salinity are making it harder for parents to provide for their children — leaving many growing up without the health, protection and education they need to thrive.

Sponsorship is helping to tackle 3 big challenges facing children in Paikgachha:
  1. Babies and young children suffering 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 Paikgachha, 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 Paikgachha 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 Paikgachha

You’re helping children receive vital nutrition support, health monitoring, and care while equipping families with the knowledge to keep their children healthy and strong.

You’re helping strengthen local protection networks, raise awareness of children’s rights, and ensure vulnerable children receive the support they need.

You’re helping strengthen early learning centres, train facilitators, and provide the resources children need to succeed in school.

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


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

"I still dream of becoming a doctor." Juvayer (17)

"I still dream of becoming a doctor." Juvayer (17)

Juvayer grew up knowing exactly what he wanted. His village had no doctor. People walked four or five kilometres when someone got sick, often with no vehicle to help them. So he decided: he wanted be the one to change that. But because of poverty he’s had to drop out of school to work with his Dad so they can increase their family income.

Through sponsoring a child like Juvayer, you can help families like his build enough stability that parent’s don’t have to choose between their education and the family's survival. Safe learning spaces, better-resourced schools, and communities equipped to support children through hardship. That is what your kindness makes possible.
"I know this water is harming me. But what choice do I have?" Anjona (43)

"I know this water is harming me. But what choice do I have?" Anjona (43)

The water in Anjona’s village is contaminated with salt, iron, and arsenic. Doctors have told her to avoid it because of how badly her health has deteriorated. Years of exposure has left her with a skin disease, blindness in one eye and a tumour in her uterus. To find water that is slightly safer for drinking and cooking, she walks up to 1.5 kilometres to a shared community pond, used by the whole village, including livestock. It is the best option available to her.

Anjona's story shows what happens when children grow up without safe water. Her suffering started in childhood and has shaped every part of her life since. When you sponsor a child in Paikgachha, you're helping to bring clean water and trained health workers to communities like hers, so the next generation doesn't have to make the same impossible choices.

"No child should have to give up their dreams."
Read Kanchon's story

Kanchon, 16, Paikgachha

Transforming communities together

We will partner with the Paikgachha 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 markets 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.