About

Grameen Manobic Unnayan Sangstha (GRAMAUS) is a non-profitable voluntary organization established in the year of 1984 by the initiative of young peoples, Social workers, and NGO personnel. They initiated a kind of social work that not only helps people ternary but also make them (the rural poor) capable of undertake the responsibility of their development. With such aim GRAMAUS has been established to alleviate property and to make the unalterable group specially landless and small farmers families self-reliance through Group formation, Training, Income generation activities, Non-formal education, utilization local resources, Women development and undertaking need and problem solving programs by improving skill, knowledge and technique. It believes in bottom up, non-directed, integrated and participatory development framework and acts as a catalyst with its target people.

The organization has endeavored to be an effective instrument of development of the poor since its establishment. It has been consistently making efforts to evolve an alternative development strategy. Over the Years, the organization has succeeded in developing strategies, approaches and programs that relevant to the key referred of its alternative development paradigm, referred to as participatory sustainable development paradigm. It has pioneered the concepts and method of organization building participatory approach and planning process, access to and common property resources, like Social forestry, Education program and many innovative employment and Income Generating Activities through credit management.