CSR Programm

Apart from recreational activities of members are linked with welfare-oriented activities and run the following projects:

a.         Educational Project: Uttara Ladies Club Free Primary School is a project for the under-privileged children of the neighborhood locality. This school is in existence since the establishment of the club, and run six classes starting from nursery to class V. The teaching is absolutely free. The students are provided with school dress, reading and writing materials, school bags & tiffin snacks. In the winter season, the students get warm clothes like jackets, sweaters, blankets etc at free of cost. Stipends are awarded to the first three position holders in yearly examination for class II, Class III and Class IV students.

b.         Free Medical Clinic: For the students of Free Primary School, Uttara Ladies Club provide free medicine whenever they fall sick. One of member, who is professionally a medical practitioner, looks after the health and hygiene of the students. This project also arranges free inoculation, vaccination and vitamin A capsule.

c.         Legal Support Center: Uttara Ladies Club runs a legal advisory service set up, bearing in mind about the social responsibilities. Discrimination and violence are affecting the lives of many women and children in all socio-economic classes. Women are continued to be the subject of violence like physical abuse, dowry-related matters and sexual harassment. The clients also come for maintenance and restitution of conjugal rights and marital problems. They get counseling and mediation (Shalish). One lawyer of BNWLA (Bangladesh National Women Lawyers’ Association) work in this project. The Executive Director BNWLA Advocate Salma Ali who is also an honorary member of the Club, provides the lawyer in running this center within the club premises. The club provides a furnished room with staff. The clients get all the services at free of cost.

d.         Others:  Uttara Ladies Club helps the disaster victims also. Whenever there is natural calamity such as flood, earthquake and collapse of buildings or fire, we always collect donation from our members and distribute to the affected people.

All these services rendered by Uttara Ladies Club need substantial funds to pay. Teachers and staff’s monthly salary and Eid bonus, club utility bills as such telephone bill, gas bill, WASA bill, electric bill, garbage bill, maintenance of AC and generator, buying of stationeries, courier and SMS bill require a regular source of income which comes from the members monthly subscription.

At present, Uttara Ladies Club has total 961 members, of them Honorary members 07, Founder members 08, Donor members 05, Life members 119, Special Life members 13 and General members 809.  

The facilities available for the members of this club are Yoga, Library, indoor        games (playing at cards, table tennis, carroms, ludu etc) and viewing the programme in a 30” inches wall mounted television. At subsidized rates the member can avail the hall room or any other place within the club premises.