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Universal Aid Society, a non-government, charity, non-profit and non-political voluntary development organization, has been working primarily in the field of health, agriculture, rural environmental sustainability, bio-diversity management, coastal ecology, conservation, natural resource management, etc.

Vision:
The vision of Universal Aid Society is the developed society that is materially optimum, socially equitable, ecologically sound and more satisfying in human terms than growth obsessed society of today. It believes that the resource poor people have every potential to take responsibilities of their self-reliance and development as per needs.

Mission:
Mission of Universal Aid Society is to enable people through realizing their potentials in such a way that they can identify their problems, its root causes, ensure participation in planning and resource management for their self-development.

Objectives:
a) To create awareness among the members of the groups about their present condition including their family life, human rights, social justice and economic condition;
b) To stimulate cooperative efforts to mobilize resources and capital of the community for promoting self-reliant people’s organization.
c) To eradicate illiteracy through functional and non-formal education;
d) To promote health education and family planning services so that they can avail the local health resources by themselves;
e) To promote micro level Income Generation Activities (IGA) through mobilizing local resources;
f) Protection of environment and conservation of natural resources and its wise uses;
g) Sustainable management of wetland resources for improving the livelihood of the wetland resources depended people;
h) To ensure participation of the of the group members in Income Generating Activities.

Working Strategy:
In achieving the above objectives, Universal Aid Society has clearly formulated certain strategies & principles that are Operationalized through some programs.

• Institutional development & democratization;
• Human resource development;
• Structural poverty alleviation;
• Environmental protection & regeneration;
• Improvement of gender equality;
• Participatory development research;