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UTSHO Bangladesh is a grassroots, community based organization enabling access to basic human rights for marginalized women and children. Utsho’s vision is to ensure all human beings have the right to survive, access to free healthcare and education and are free from all oppression. The guiding principles of Utsho have been the addressing of human rights issues, providing sustainable education to marginalized children within a caring environment, and maintaining a transparent management structure.

Through this program, single working mothers, such as sex workers, garment factory workers, domestic helpers, can be ensured that their children have appropriate full time care. However, it provides much more than caring. Utsho offers formal and informal education. It teaches children to respect women, most importantly to respect themselves and to overcome their suffering of identity crisis and traumatic backgrounds. There are also accommodation facilities available for these economically disadvantaged children in Bangladesh.