 Nijera Kori means, "We do it ourselves." This motto has guided us in all spheres of our activities since our inception -- which, too, was a collective people's decision. "We" stands for the peoples collective -- the people and Nijera Kori -- who work together and support each other in attaining a common goal. Hence: "We do it ourselves." |
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During the early period of the Non-Governmental Organizations, the mainstream NGOs in Bangladesh concentrated on rural social mobilization to challenge the power structure which brought a strong backlash from the rural elites particularly during the martial law. This was one of the reasons why there was a general move by the NGOs away from working on social mobilization and towards micro-credit.
Nijera Kori works with downtrodden people. We continue to use the adjective "downtrodden" with deliberation. Our objectives, broadly speaking, are to come to point in time when we shall cease to use the said word...
The people we work with. Our projects are active in 18 districts of Bangladesh and our members come from a broad spectrum of Bangladesh's toiling masses.