Location: Bangladesh

“Evolution360" is a youth-led community organization, established in 2016 which focuses on Youth empowerment and skill development with a vision to create a gender equal world with active youth participation. Our vision is to create a gender equal world consisting skilled Youth, ensuring equal participation of men & women in every field.

Throughout the past 4 years, we have conducted more than 60 campaigns, workshops and conferences in different places of Dhaka and outside Dhaka. The audience are mainly young people aged between 14-28 years.

Campaign "Be The change"

Through this awareness campaign, we replicate #HeForShe by teaching young boys consent and attitude towards the opposite gender and we train young teenage girls with self-defense workshops all over Bangladesh.

Signature event SPEAK FOR CHANGE

Every year Evolution 360 organises the biggest National Public Speaking Festival in Bangladesh, on the occasion of Women's Day under the theme of SDG 05. Participants all over the country participate and deliver speeches on the given topic/theme.

Our Campaigns and Activities during Lockdown (COVID-19) are described as follows:

1. Hand sanitizers, masks and hygiene products distribution to the street children and homeless people, during the month of April, 2020.

2. Campaign on Mental Health – Evolution 360, in collaboration with the NGO Manusher Jonno Foundation launched a series of interactive Webinars. These certified Webinars focused on Mental well-beings, Basic psychological counseling, Anger management, Tackling Domestic violence during lockdown, Adolescent mental health, HeForShe at home, Gender sensitization and topics like these. Each of these 2 hours sessions also included some one-to-one counseling with people who needed help.

3. UNV India Online Global Awareness campaign participation- Evolution 360 encouraged youth in the community to be part of V-force of UNV , through active online participation in the global awareness spreading campaign against COVID-19. Youth from all over the world contributed here as online UN volunteers, along with a majority participating from Bangladesh.

4. Providing Legal support in collaboration with Different agencies- Evolution 360 is also providing women with direct legal help in case of any sort of violence, in collaboration with some Law enforcement agencies and Legal Aid service providers along with Lawyers and counselors.

5. Spraying disinfectants in roads and streets of some areas, with the help of our volunteers and BNCC volunteers.

6. Providing Grocery as Relief to the lower income families.

7. Online Skill Development sessions- Evolution360 firmly believes that Youth are the main weapon to national development. Hence, during this Quarantine, we are organizing some skill development sessions and crash courses on basic employability skills like: Communication and Presentation skills, MS Word and Excel, Learning PowerPoint, CV writing, LinkedIn usage, etc. These are certified, which will also be helpful for the young students in near future. This will continue throughout the lockdown period.

Due to lack of funding opportunities, we collected this fund through an innovative online fundraising event named TALENT TRANSITION 2020, where students participated in different segments like Photography, Writing, Artworks, etc and their registration fees were used as a fund for the covid affected people. Participants got the opportunity to get participation certificates and winners were also awarded, at the same time this youth group were able to contribute in a good cause.

However, with proper funding and donation opportunities, we can reach to a maximum number of people and elaborate our areas.

Support

1. Relief Project- We have already provided food and grocery support to 200+ families of a specific area, we plan to reach around 2500 families in dire need.

2. Be The Change campaign- We have covered more than 86 institutes including boys and girls school, we hope to reach more, since these workshops on consent, attitude towards opposite gender and self-defense are free of cost.

3. Entrepreneurial Project- Due to the global pandemic, almost all entrepreneurs are struggling to survive. If we can manage some funds, we want to provide immediate help loans at little interest to the Women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, which can help them to continue their business. They can return the loan after a situations are normal. Details regarding this can be provided upon request.

4. Skill Development Training- Upon having funding, we can reach lower income families and youth and train them on various employ ability skills needed for the post-pandemic job market. We already provide some sessions, but it is not possible to teach in depth and reach a wider audience without much funding.

Needs: International and multilateral affiliations, along with funding

See more: https://web.facebook.com/Evo360Global/

For more information, contact covid19@unmgcy.org