Organization at a Glance
Society for People’s Advancement (SPA) is a non-political, non-religious and not-for-profit Non-Government Organization (NGO) for social development in Bangladesh.
It was established in 1998 by few young energetic social elites with a mission to enable sustainable development through empowerment of the poor.
We are especially focused on empowering the very poor families with widows and children. Through empowerment, the poor are organised and made aware of the real causes of their impoverishment, their material resources are mobilised, income and employment are increased, and capacities are developed to cope with natural disasters.
Empowerment makes the poor functionally literate, enables them to take better care of their health, get elected in local community institutions, and provides the poor with better access to common property resources.
SPA programmes include building organisations of the poor, training in skill development, children education, promotion of self-reliance through employment and income generating activities and provision of small grants in various forms such as cash, food, clothes, houses, medical care etc., small enterprise development, development support to communication, health education and infrastructure building, mother and child development.
Women make up roughly half of the population, and their needs, experiences, voices, and concerns need to be represented at decision making tables. We believe empowerment and economic inclusion of women creates opportunity for upward mobility in education, business etc. This provides expertise, income, and financial growth that would have otherwise not existed, were the woman to rely solely on her husband’s or family’s income.
Mission:
SPA plans to equip the very poor citizens of the society with requisite skills, knowledge, income employment schemes and activities to elevate the socio-economic status of the society.
SPA organizes the distressed and powerless people through support, rehabilitation, motivation and awareness to direct their lives meaningfully towards betterment -physically, mentally and socially.
Through awareness building and educational support, SPA hopes to increase the literacy rate, setting up various income generating projects for economic rehabilitation & socio-economic development of the under-privileged people in the community.
SPA intends to establish sustainable livelihoods for the disadvantaged women and children so that they can fight with poverty and injustice.
SPA emphasizes on people’s participation in need assessment, planning, implementation and decision-making process for making the program socially accepted, people’s oriented and sustainable for years to come.
SPA envisions to alleviate poverty, hunger, illiteracy, ill-health & civic inertia among the poor villagers of Bangladesh.
Vision:
To establish a society free from exploitation, oppression and deprivation, where every individual regardless of color, race, religion, and gender pursue their dream with equal opportunity and meritocracy is practiced in its true sense.
| 1. | Name of The Organization | Society for people’s Advancement (SPA) |
| 2. | Year of Establishment: | 1998 |
| 3. | Registered under the Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1998 from the Joint Stock Companies, Dhaka, Bangladesh | S-2100(133)/99 |
| 4. | NGO Affairs Bureau, Office of the Prime Minister, Govt. of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. | FDR No. 1744 |
| 5. | Registered under the District Cooperative, Dhaka under the Ministry of Co-operative, Govt. of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. | Reg. No.630 |
| 6. | Affiliated with the Directorate of Family Planning, Dhaka. | Affiliation No.10 |
| 7. | Ministry of Science & Technology. | Ga-108 |
| 8. | Tax Payers Identification Number (TIN), Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Taxes. | TIN : 1661-9810-3618 Tax Circle-130, Zone-6, Dhaka |
| 9. | Registered with PADOR-ESCAP- EuropeAid: | ID No: BD-2013-DQX-0704826785 |
| 10. | Phone Number: | +8801730340000, +8801678116064 |
| 11. | Email: | hello@ngospa.org |
| 12. | Website: | www.ngospa.org |
| 13. | Principles of the programming activity: | 1) Utilization of local wisdom and resources 2) Encouragement of creativity and innovation 3) Searching utmost quality 4) Enhancing Cooperation, Coordination 5) Networking 6) Accepting |
| 14. | Outsourcing related activities & Training: | Graphic Design, Web Design & Development, SEO, SMM, CPA Marketing, Professional YouTube Marketing, Content Writing, Data Engineering, Software Testing, 3D Design & Animation, PPC, CPC, Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Layer Masking and Object Removing etc. |
| 15. | Total employment: | 10,000+ Volunteers |
| 16. | Organization Funding: | Donation |
| 17. | Head Office: | House #12, Road #12, Gulshan-1, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh. |
| 18. | SPA Principal office: | 62, Hasan Nagor (1sr floor), Hazi Missir Ali road, Abu Syeed Bazar, Kamrangirchar, Dhaka-1211. Email: hello@ngospa.org |
| 19. | Project Office (District-Sunamganj) | 1. Madhubbir Market, Dharon Bazar, Upazila: Chatak, District: Sunamgonj, Bangladesh. 2. Upazila Road, Gonggiargor Bazar, Upazila: Sullna, District: Sunamgonj, Bangladesh |
| 20. | Project Office (District-Rajbari) | 1. Upazila Road, Upazila: Goalanda, District: Rajbari, Bangladesh. 2. Sonali Bank Complex, Narayonpur, Upazila Road, Upazila: Pangsha, District: Rajbari, Bangladesh. |
| 21. | Project Office (District- Mymensingh) | Court Road, Upazila: Ishwergonj, District: Mymensingh, Bangladesh |
| 22. | Membership/Partnership with other National and International bodies | 1) Partner member of Youth For International Development-Global Youth Networks, 2013. 2) Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh (FNB) applied for 2012. 3) Department of Women Child Affairs (GoB) since 2012. 4) Coalition for Urban Poor (CUP) since 2010. 5) Prosika Manobik Unnayan Kendra since 2008. 6) Terre Des Hommes, Switzerland since 2009. 7) WINROCK International since 2008. 8) Directorate of Primary Mass Education (GoB) since 2009. 9) Office of the Civil Surgeon, Dhaka (GoB) since 2007. |