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Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV- Bangladesh) in short is a voluntary social change organization in developing field. It is devoted to set up a framework towards mainstreaming the people with disabilities in communities, and the marginalized people. Md. Shahidul Haque, a physically challenged person himself formed this organization in 1988 with support from a few friends who expressed solidarity with him. But it has been working in the disability sector since 1989. SARPV is the first organization which had assisted people with disabilities after any natural disaster at the field level. This ventured started in 1989 from the “Saturia Tornado” followed by subsequent disasters in 1991, 1995 and in 1997.
At present it has been working in seven greater districts of Bangladesh under 17 Upazilas of 140 unions (approximately).
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