Friends of Khasdobir supports KYAG (Khasdobir Youth Action Group), a locally-run educational and welfare project based on a cluster of villages, known as Khasdobir, on the edge of the town of Sylhet in Bangladesh.   Most of the 35,000 people who live in Khasdobir are landless and desperately poor.  Some work as day labourers or cycle rickshaw drivers; others are widows with no income, struggling to provide for their children.

You will find details of the remarkable work done by KYAG by following the navigation buttons.  But just as important as the practical work it does is its role in building up the self-confidence and sense of self-worth of women in that community; in creating links between the old-established villagers and people who have moved into Khasdobir seeking work; and in building bridges between the Muslims in the village and the Hindus on the near-by tea estates.

Friends of Khasdobir seeks to raise the £31,000 a year that this unique project costs to run.