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Researcher: Dr. Lenin Azad
The project is an action research with the active participation
of the hardcore poor. The poor themselves will participate
fully as researchers. The researchers will collectively
try to unravel an alternative path to poverty alleviation
and investigate what can be done for improving their
present condition. The poor researchers will try to
reach a collective understanding regarding causes of
their own poverty, historical perspective of their poverty
and their overall conditions. They will identify their
personal and collective potentials, which can be used
for poverty alleviation. One hundred hardcore poor families
in Saidpur, Nilphamari District, in north Bangladesh,
will carry out the research, based on the concept of
dignity and self-reliance with minimal external assistance.
The outcome of the research is expected to increase
collective and personal self-esteem, dignity and active
initiatives, which may lead to further steps to alleviate
poverty. Overall it is expected to expand their mode
of thinking and to have positive impact on their collective
psychology.
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