Background of the organization

Aungkur Palli Unnayan Kendra ( APUK) is a rural based, woman focused non- political, non-profit Bangladeshi organization, established in 1989 and operating her development activities since 1991 under Madaripur District in Bangladesh. It was service delivery and development organization and dedicated to the socio-economic development of the poor specially the oppressed & exploited womenfolk in Bangladesh.

Vision
The people of Bangladesh will be free from all sorts of exploitation and oppression, economically productive, equitable, socially just & moralist, environmentally sound and truly democratic.

Mission
The mission of Aungkur is to create an intensive and far reaching participatory sustainable development process for social structural change through empowerment of the poor stratum. The organization is committed to improving the quality of lives of disadvantaged people by making need based development services available to them in education, training, health, micro-finance, agriculture, institutional capacity building, legal and human rights and gender equity.

Goal
The organization’s ultimate aims is to mobilize the poor to form grass-root level organizations that could become involved in the development process and eventually challenge the unequal rural social order. APUK believes that the personal and institutional capacity building can explore and invent human potentialities to mobilize and manage resources for improving their quality of life so that they can establish sustainable and justifiable society. 

Organizational value
Aungkur believes to explore the human potentialities of the poor people as a basic development approach.

The organization always concern with act in such way that respect the dignity, uniqueness and intrinsic worth of every person.

The organization always concern with act in such way that respect the dignity, uniqueness and intrinsic worth of every person.

Aungkur believes that the resources at our disposal are not our own.

The organization believes to work in partnership with the poor and other development organization for changing their lifestyle and socio-economic condition of the poor.

Aungkur believes that people’s participation is an integral part of sustainable development process

Legal Status

Aungkur is registered under the Voluntary Agencies Ordinance of 1961  and under the Foreign Donation  Regulations  of 1978 and 1982 of the people’s Republic of Bangladesh It is also affiliated with other organization as development partner: The legal statuses of the organization are as follows:
Department of Social Welfare, Government of Bangladesh having registration no. MADA-112, Date- 04- 05-91
NGO Affairs Bureau under FD / 711, dated 6 June 1993.

Stakeholders of the organization

Aungkur works with the various stakeholders in the rural power structures. The primary beneficiaries of Aungku’s are rural poor, land-less, day labors and oppressed women. The primary beneficiaries of community-based programs are the community people of the targeted area comprising of school children, school teacher, religious leader, elected local members and chairman’s, civil society members etc.

Working Area

Aungkur has been implementing her comprehensive development program in Madaripur Sadar & Rajoir Upazila of Madaripur District of Bangladesh comprising of 171 villages in 16 unions establishing 5 (Five)-area offices in different suitable locations. The Area offices are commonly known as Branch office comprising of 7 to 9 staffs headed by a Branch Manager.

Development Approach

Aungkur follows participatory development approach for implementing any kind of project activities. It ensures of peoples involvement in project formulation to project implementation., monitoring, evaluation and future sustainability of the project or any kind of development activities.  Generally Aungkur’s development approach can be classified into following components:
* Grassroots peoples organization development
* Community managed gender balanced, demand driven  program development 
* Partnership program development
* Advocacy and net working development