For rearing and rehabilitant of orphans and helpless & autistics/handicapped children having no identity of guardians, Masjid Council is operating 3 (three) orphanage units under its Children Welfare Program (CWP) with full-phased residential facilities namely Special Children unit at Sonir Akhara, Jatrabari, Dhaka; Girls unit at Auchpara, Tongi, Gazipur City Corporation, Gazipur and Boys unit at Sonir Akhara, Jatrabari, Dhaka. As a non-profit motive runs orphanages, our primary source of income is your donations and charities.

Almost all the money we receive is spent for fulfilling the basic needs of the orphans including shelter, clothes, education, treatment & food. Currently, we have 68 orphan children in our orphanages—17 are special children, 25 are girls and 26 are boys.

Besides, we have 170 more non-residential orphans— 162 are special children and 8 are boys.

This is Zakat based sustainable poverty reduction model to enhance socio-economic improvement and moral development of the poor and ultra-poor. The beneficiaries are selected through PRA and baseline survey. The selected beneficiaries are given training to manage the allocated capital and run efficiently income generating activities. The model ensures community ownership in capital formation, program implementation and monitoring. It also ensures target people’s access to local services and resources by awaring them about their rights and making the government and local government service delivery departments caring towards the beneficiaries.

Recently, such projects are being running in Dhaka, Manikganj and Kurigram district of the country.

The socio-economic reality of the country sometimes compels some of the guardians of the rural areas not to send their children to schools. Considering the need for a future educated vanguard and to support the SDGs efforts of the government, Masjid Council is running this project. Under the project, adolescent boys & girls and adult male & female are taught Al Quran with Tajweed along with Salah and daily life related Masalah-Masail. They are also encouraged the practice of 5 time prayers daily with health education, hygiene & sanitation and distributed nutritious food with limited scale.

Currently, about 16 thousand learners are being taught under 460 more life related education centers in 10 districts.

In order to provide employment to the unemployed and destitute women with less education at village level, MCCA has been initiated various vocational trainings since 2013. Sewing training is one of them. The project trained 161 persons (153 females and 8 males) till date. While in 2020 alone, 22 unemployed and destitute women were given hand-to-hand training with free sewing machine. The project has 45 machines of different types including 26 power machines and more than 10 thousand cloths of different designs, on an average, are produced each year under this project.

Masjid Council always tries to feel people’s sufferings resulted from direct and indirect impact of various natural & manmade disasters. It addresses floods, fires, cyclones, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, severe thunderstorms, earthquakes, wildfires and even heavy winter & droughts through relief and rehabilitation.

This is mainly a scholarship program for the needy but brilliant students of Madrasha, school & college and also for the students who are at graduate and post-graduate level.

Grant Start Date : September 11, 2019,
Grant End Date : June 10, 2020 Target
Group(s) : Faith leaders and influencers
Activity Approach : Communications &
Networks Driver(s) : Absence of Leadership on Tolerance & Acceptance
Funded Under : USAID Obirodh: Road to Tolerance Program

Active Summary: 
The activity aims to mobilize selected faith influencers with enhanced skills to rebuild trust and take a bridge-building role among communities against violent extremism in Bangladesh. This activity under the project supports MCCA to organize two PVE orientations for 40 faith influencers, produce 3 short videos on peace message involving key faith personalities and stakeholders. Additionally, MCCA asks for review on these 3 videos from 5-10 inter-faith leaders and air the finalized videos in digital media/ popular online based TV channels and social websites.

Grant Start Date : September 1, 2019
Grant End Date : February 29, 2020
Target Group(s) : Female Students
Activity Approach : People to People
Programming Driver(s) : Absence of
Critical Thinking Skills Funded Under : USAID Obirodh: Road to Tolerance Program

Active Summary: 
This activity trained 25 female teachers of 20 informal institutions to help female Madrasha students to think critically about outside negative influencers, develop emotional intelligent skills and self-confident to understand, identify and reject negative and violent actions. Under this six-month long project, MCCA developed a curriculum on peace building and leadership skills, conduct two orientations for institutional personnel and one two-day long orientation on curriculum for female teachers from informal institutions in Dhaka.

Grant Start Date : February 15, 2018
Grant End Date : July 14, 2018 Target
Group(s) : Faith Scholars and
Influential Professionals Funded Under : USAID Obirodh: Road to Tolerance Progra

Active Summary:
Under this project, MCCA arranged 8 workshops covering 8 divisions (Dhaka, Chattogram, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet, Rangpur and Mymenshing) with Influential and Progressive Faith Leaders from Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Adivasi and other faith based community (Both male and female). These workshops brought together different faith leaders to identify their roles and specific actions they can take to act against social disharmony and intolerance.