February 7, 2023

Exhibition of our projects at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

February 7, 2023

February 2023: Exhibition of our projects at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Exhibition of research work undertaken by our co-founder Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows, in collaboration with Mannan Foundation Trust and Our Building Design, has been hosted in London at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Titled: ‘Improvised Architectural Responses to the Changing Climate; Making, Sharing and Communicating Design Processes in Rural Bangladesh.’

Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to global climate change, with weather-driven calamities disproportionately affecting low-income rural communities. Research findings highlight the unequal distribution of responsibilities and the greater burden on women in the community to respond to the threats of extreme climate. This research methodology l seeks to empower those in Bangladeshi villages by enabling marginalised voices to be heard through an emphasis on collective engagement, especially incorporating the contributions by female residents. Carried out through community-oriented projects in the remote village of Rajapur, this ‘live’ practice-based thesis explores, tests, shares and disseminates some of the rich and varied forms of tacit knowledge which can provide valuable understandings both for those people in the locality and also for architects and designers on the international scale.

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December 20, 2022

Mannan Foundation

Mannan Foundation Trust’s Free Eye Surgery

December 20, 2022

Mannan Foundation

December 2022: Mannan Foundation Trust’s Free Eye Surgery

Our charity Mannan Foundation Trust (local charity "Professor Mannan Sriti Shangshod" in Bangladesh), recently hosted free Eye camps and financially supported the eye surgeries of the villagers, in the remote village Rajapur in Bangladesh.

Our Trustee Dr Nilufar Fatema Luna @nilufar.luna organised and collaborated with the local eye hospital Majharul Haq BNSB Eye Hospital Chandpur doctors, and the Rotary Club of Uttara.

We thank all the doctors and volunteers for making this possible.

Thanks to Rotary Club of Uttara @rotaryinternational and BNSB Eye hospital Chandpur for your kind help.

Our Trustee Dr Tina Khanam and our Head Trustee Mrs Razia Begum Mannan also volunteered and worked hard at the Eye healthcamps.

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#healthinequality #bangladesh #Rajapurvillage

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October 23, 2020

Mannan Foundation

Covid-19 Projects: Face Shield Design Workshops

October 23, 2020

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Oct 23, 2020

October 2020: Mannan Foundation Trust’s Covid-19 ‘Save Lives’ Projects.

Our charity is on the ground in rural Bangladesh, working with communities to address the challenges they face. Some of the social inequalities have been exacerbated by the coronavirus risks, the Covid-19 pandemic.

Since March 2020, we have hosted public health awareness workshops to raise awareness of the risks of coronavirus.

These photos are from our public health workshops at the Rajapur Women’s Literacy classes. The community participants are designing their face shield through drawing and making. The aim of these classes are to demonstrate ways to keep safe and protect the communities from the spread of coronavirus.

The community members are learning the benefits of wearing a face shield and how to design and make a face shield.

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Oct 23, 2020

September 26, 2020

Mannan Foundation

Covid-19 Projects: Children's Design Workshop Video

September 26, 2020

Mannan Foundation

August 2020: Mannan Foundation Trust’s Covid-19 ‘Save Lives’ Projects

School closure during the pandemic means children are missing out on education. We are running several projects for the children during the covid-19 pandemic. These design workshop teaches through drawing and making to enhance the school curriculum.

September 25, 2020

Mannan Foundation

Covid-19 Projects: Social Distancing Awareness - Children's Design Workshops

September 25, 2020

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Sep 25, 2020

August 2020: Mannan Foundation Trust’s Covid-19 ‘Save Lives’ Projects

This project raises awareness of keeping at a safe distance: ‘Designing A Social Distancing Ring’; to demonstrate how to maintain social distance of six feet from each other. School closure during the pandemic means children are missing out on education. We are running several projects for the children during the covid-19 pandemic. These projects aim to address the absence of the public services, for the village community.

Our team member Mrs. Hawa Begum is on the grounds of remote villages, disseminating public health messages to protect the communities from Coronavirus by demonstrating how to make and wear masks, the importance of washing hands, social distancing practices and the symptoms of coronavirus and how to seek urgent medical help.

Sep 25, 2020