The Story of Aam Janata! The history of bangle online community is not too old. It has been just a few years that the young generation of Bangladesh started to be active in social media, blogging and other electronics media about the national issues and problems. Although it enlightened and made aware a good number of educated Bangladeshis on online, but sadly this awareness didnt get transformed in to action on offline and real life. There was a trend of this sad pessimistic interlude that “nothing good is going to happen to this rotten country, we are doomed for good” in online and offline. People would just keep blaming the country and the system! After the post 75’s dramatic changes in political theater the following generations were affected by severe moral and identity crisis and slow poison of inferiority complex. They inherited the frustration and the inferior complexes from their pre-generation and joined in this blame game too. People would just keep blaming the system for the anarchy, lack of discipline and limitless corruption! But nobody would ask the ultimate question of JFK, “ask not what this country has given you but rather ask what you gave to this country!” From the ashes of incompetence and selfish escapist tendency, few youngsters rose above and started to take responsibility to change this society, to ask for their deserved rite, to do some good beyond the activism in electronics media. The date was 30th April 2012. Some young patriots gathered in a common platform to bring some positive change to their dearest land of green, red and gold! Aamjanata was formed. The word Aam came from the Persian word- Awam, that means subjects or commoners. Through slangs of local dialects, it came down to aam. In Bengal aam also means one of the most favourite fruit of the nation, Mango. Somehow these two meanings were connected with each other. It came down to Aam janata- Mango people- the common people or simply put- The people! Aamjanata were always there. It’s just that they never had their voice. Hence the rise and march toward a better Bangladesh of these youngsters, to be the voice of the people, to be the hands of the people, to march forward! Mission Protest against Eve teasing. Bacha Khan said, “if you want to understand how advanced a civilization is, watch how they treat their women! “ The very first mission of Aamjanata was to prevent and oppose against the eve teasing that had went inside the root of almost all class of citizens in Bangladesh. In front of Shahbag National Museum, Aamjanata had a demonstration of throwing rotten eggs and burning effigies as a symbolic gesture toward the eve teasers. Aamjanata started spreading word of awareness against eve teasing. A popular slogan in this procession was “teasing her from her back or from her- when she turns- what if thats your sister? “ Mission: Chakaria. Mission Chakaria was a relief mission. After the devastating flood and river erosion of a vast land, Aamjanata engaged itself in the call of humanitarian duty. The campaign has started from facebook. Aamjanata raised money and help for relief campaign. The volunteers hiked to the most inapproachable remote stations of the affected area and distributed rice, important medicine, and other life saving reliefs successfully to more than 800 flood victims of that area. Mission Jamalpur. After a few days of Chakaria Mission, Aamjanata raised about 4 Metric tons of rice, 7000 pieces of water purifying tablets, 3500 oral saline for the flood victims of Jamalpur. In this mission, Sondhani of Sir Salimullah Medical College – a dedicated volunteering team of medical students also helped us with their invaluable service and with more than 1 lakh taka worth of medicine. Aamjanata distributed the relief among 1200 people and successfully conducted the medical camp for the helpless people of Jamalpur. Mission: Distribution of Blankets. In Bangladesh, the people who are below the poverty line, a basic rite like cloths may be achievable in ease. But to have a blanket during the winter is a privilege, especially to the homeless people of the streets. Aamjanata distributed a huge number of blankets to the homeless people during the winter of 2012. Iftar of Aamjanata 2012: Instead of luxury of the restaurants, Aamjanata had their iftar party in Charukala print making departments rooftop, with humble arrangement of chola muri in earth plates (shanki) as a symbolic gesturing imitation of the common peoples common food! Mission: Zakat 2012 Zakat is a systematic charity of Islamic society to stop and prevent begging. But the system in this society has changed it to a continuation of high class begging. From this realization, Aamjanata started a mass awareness campaign in social media and offline to establish a clear direction manifesto. Aamjanata bought a Riksha to a poor man in Rajshahi and built tea stalls for two persons. Instead of throwing some chump changes to some poor people, concentrating on helping with stable establishment to eliminate poverty was the idea behind this campaign. Fuchka Bilash for the homeless kids. Aamjanata arranged for fuchka bilash to make the homeless street kids happy in Dhanmandi Rabindro Sharobor. A random act of kindness and good free treat made them smile for a long time. Mission: Human chain To reserve the rites of heretical products Bangladesh, Aamjanata raised their voice to notify and spread awareness about the importance of claim the rites of special heretical products of Bangladesh. Aamjanata pointed out the actual heretical products of Bangladesh and demanded to register these products under the Geographical Indicator law (GL) . Among these products, there are Jamdani Saree of Dhaka, Nakshikatha of Faridpur, Hilsha of Chandpur, Fazli Mango of Rajshahi, Yogurt of Bogura, Honey of Sundarban and etc. On this demand and to spread awareness, Aamjanata arranged a human chain in front of Dhaka press Club at 19th October 2012. Lots of students came to this human chain and supported this cause. Mission: Protest against GPA based medical college admission. Aamjanata recognized that the newly introduced GPA based system of admission in Medical College is a flawed one. Aamjanata started its campaign against the admission system and took place in demonstration of the protest with the students. Mission: Hunger strike for 71 hours in demand of dialogue in the midst of the leader of opposition and the government. Bangladesh was on a verge of a crackdown of in political unrest. Both of the leaders of the government and opposition leader has this heinous practice of not even seeing each other’s face let alone sit in dialogue. The whole country demanded this dialogue between two leaders to solve the nervous political situations. Aamjanata went on a hunger strike for 71 hours to to voice out this public demand as a symbolic gesture toward the leaders of Bangladesh. It has become a ritual of the political stunts to arrange and bring some big shots to break the hunger Strike. Aamjanata arranged for no such hypocrite show-off. But some common people like Riksha puller , lemon sherbet seller, small time fruit hawker came up and requested the volunteers to break their hunger strike . Mission : Tragedy of Savar and Reehan. After the savar tragedy of Rana plaza murder (yes, not accident, it was a murder) Aamjanata took responsibility of one of its orphanages. The orphans name is Reehan. His father Mansur and mother Rehana were killed in Rana plaza tragedy when he was only 7 months old. Reehan stays with his grandparents now. His grandparents were actually sponsored by his parents before their death. This old couple needs 8K Taka every month for their rental and food. Primarily Aamjanata shall arrange and donate 8K Taka every month until Reehan comes to the age of 10. In the meantime, Aamjanata arranged a fund of 2 lakh taka for Reehan and paid for a initial cost of a piece of land in Boro Oyaliya, Savar. Aamjanata vowed to take care of Reehan as a parent until his establishment and forward. Mission: Donation of Sewing machine to two victim families of Savar Incident. Aamjanata arranged to donate two sewing machines to two widows of Savar Tragedy. The financial support was given from the facebook event of “ lets stand beside the the victims of Savar Tragedy”. Iftar of Aamjanata 2013. Llike 2012, Aamjanata arranged for iftar on the rooftop of print making dept of Charukala. A great get together took in the presence of new and old team mates of Aamjanata. Misison: Zakat 2013. Every year, poor people die to get the Saree or Lungi of Zakat in stampedes of zakat donating programs. Some people show off with their charity much more than they actually give. Common people stay poor. This is not the principle of Zakat. Aamjanata does not believe in hypocrisy. Aamjanata believes in making durable progress to make people self supporting. From this principle, Aamjanata brought sewing machine to a widow of Kutubdiya, Coxsbazar from zakats money. She is a self independent woman now. Mission: Database of Blood donors. (Under development and Coming soon) Aamjanata wants a Bangladesh with esteemed with the pride of the Great freedom fight of 1971. The cognition of this fight was financial and cultural independence of Bangladesh. Aamjanata dreams of a country that will be a role model of peace and prosperity! Aamjanata wants actions instead of empty words! Aamjanata wants to change and improve themselves and engage in cognitive development of country and the society. Hence the forward march. You are cordially welcome to this march toward future. Motto: Aamjanata wants to change and improve themselves and engage in cognitive development of country and the society
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:57:53 +0000
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