Ahsania Mission Children City (AMCC), located in Panchgarh, is a specialized institution of Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) dedicated toward the integrated & comprehensive development of most-vulnerable & disadvantaged street children of Bangladesh. AMCC in Historical Imprints:
Our imprints and purpose is intertwined in an uncomplicated nature which embarked from a vision of our pioneer Kazi Rafiqul
Alam. The curious behind-the-scene journey of AMCC started by conducting a small child situation study on 60 children from Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi & 17 child-home answering 28 burning questions on socio-political situation of Bangladeshi street children in the year 2011. We were alarmed getting to know about the misery of children living on the streets and the unprecedented fight they are giving for survival, while not even getting to earn two square meals a day in return of their labor. We also collected sufficient secondary data from the government directories of Department of Social Services, Government Ministry of Women and Children Affairs & from a range of willful child networking organizations & social welfare volunteers. This led to our discovery of a rehabilitation program that is unique from other shelter-homes and child centers with a full potential to become an iconic program rooted toward most-vulnerable and disadvantaged children’s development and a draft strategy that actually offers a sustainable solution of ‘streetism’. Without delaying, we arranged a two-day long workshop with 23 child organizations to discuss and finalize the draft action plan. The initial planning was comprised of a significant education curriculum and life-skill trainings, without proving any particular residential support. According to the outlined sequence, we rented a small space at Panchgarh and started operating in July, 2012. This grabbed attention from Kindernot Hilfe (KNH)- a German INGO who after a comprehensive evaluation, decided to temporarily fund a pilot project for a year (December, 2012-13). With the knowledge taken from our pilot project and with the timely funding extension from KNH, AMCC took its baby steps toward its first concrete five-year project, ‘Integrated Development Program for Most Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Street Children (IDP-MVDSC)’ from June, 2014 to May, 2019. This first-hand experience of working directly with street-children for a long period of time opened up opportunities of monitoring and evaluating the government & other actor’s overall developmental approach toward the targeted audience and invisible loopholes in between achieving our results. In 2018, with our constant ally, KNH-Germany, we conducted a Child Right situation Analysis (CRSA) to measure the outcomes and soon after, launched the second project of AMCC, ‘Disadvantaged Children’s Rehabilitation, Empowerment & Advancement Mission (DREAM-I)’ from June, 2019-May, 2021. The same year, we inaugurated the second building of AMCC with support of KNH-Germany and P&G. This lead to another dimension of advancement in the grounds of our programme management, strategic specification, sustainability, relationship with donor etc.; furthermore, evolving into todays AMCC. Our Future Vision:
Going against the tide, Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) established Ahsania Mission Children City (AMCC) 10 year ago, in July 1st, 2012 with an ideology to rehabilitate most vulnerable street children and allowing them to grow within an enabling environment where they can unleash their latent social energy and exhibit their potentials and creativity. Ahsania Mission Children City envisions to comprise 10 children cities in Bangladesh for 10,000 destitute children. Each of the cities will be able to capacitate 1000 children and will have self-sustained infrastructure to provide full time residential accommodation and produce food requirement for the total number of enrolled children.
