2 Sep 2025 (Tue) – 13 Sep 2025 (Sat), FIVDB, Sylhet

Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is a development organization established in 1979. The basic objectives of the organization are to empower the disadvantaged women, men and children to contribute in the reduction of poverty, protection and regeneration of eco-system and environment. Approaches include education, social organization building, financial service, health, livelihood and food security etc.

However, the meal times are exactly like this every day.

The questionnaire has 29 questions separated in 4 sections:

1. Demographic status: only 1 question with a table
2. Social status: education, gender, changes after liberation
3. Economic status: family income, housing, lands and properties, agriculture, produces, facilities, animals
4. Environment and health: water, toilet, cooking, fuel, healthcare, vaccination

Five students will write the following 5 chapters.

1. Village Resource Mapping and Transect
2. Social Change Process
3. Economy and Rural Production
4. Health and Environment
5. Rural Market

* At the end of every day, the students have to show their physical diaries to the monitors so that they can grade them on a daily basis.

1. Possession or use of drugs or alcohol
2. Sexual harassment or misconduct
3. Smoking in the village during field visits
4. Going outside the premises without permission from the coordinator
5. Arranging or participating in games that involve throwing water or color
6. Flying fanush or fireworks

1. Misbehavior with fellow students, monitors or faculties
2. Not respecting the rural culture and norms
3. Smoking outside the designated smoking zones
4. Not submitting the journal form every day on time
5. Not wearing IUB ID card regularly

1. Do not enter a village or home alone, always go with your group
2. Appropriate clothes inside the premises, where things a bit more relaxed
3. Village-appropriate clothes during field visits
4. Only parents can visit, but only on the parents’ day
5. Going out of the premises with the parents on parents’ day not allowed
6. Security of expensive cameras is your own responsibility
7. Do not take someone’s picture without their consent