Address

280 Broadway, 4th Fl
Newburgh, NY 12550

Website

www.maaws.org

Description

The mission of our organization is to assist the Bangladeshi people in uplifting themselves out of poverty. We provide people with opportunities to take control of their future.

By teaching a young boy basic computer skills so he can obtain a job at business after he graduates from college, teaching a young girl how to sew and make her own clothes so that she make an income that will support her parents, installing a sanitary latrine so a mother does not have to wash her clothes in her own excrement in the river or by giving a her easy access to clean drinking water so that she does not have to see her children afflicted with skin lesions caused by arsenic contamination, our aim is to empower people, especially the youth, into taking their lives in their control by providing them with opportunities within their reach that will improve their lives

Category

Children & Youth, Health & Disease, Global Relief, Women