INITIATIVES

CREATING SUSTAINABLE IMPACT

AYAT Care provides innovative personalized preventive health care concepts, ensuring a healthy aging process for elderly family members, combining mental & physical well-being.
AYAT Care works based on a monthly subscription of our specially trained care coaches at home. At their weekly visits, AYAT Care coaches provide guidance to a healthy lifestyle, medication intake, and physical activities, and do a basic health screen. Through state-of-the-art training and interdisciplinary, international cooperation, AYAT Care not only guarantees a state-of-the-art and high quality service, but also offers sustainable career paths to young women.

The Ayat Skill Development Center (ASDC) offers a range of services and programs to promote the development of skilled workforce, especially the ones from the disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. The courses designed and conducted at ASDC help the students not only develop hands on skill training, but also certification. The current topics include Vocational Training, the Driving School, education for General Electrician, Plumbing and Pipe Fitting, Solar Energy, Welding and Fabrication, Ready Made Garments, Refrigerator and AC Fixing ( RAC).

AYAT College of Nursing & Health Sciences (ACNHS) provides quality education in nursing. With a focus to increase accessibility of quality nursing education of our future health leaders and nurses, we strive to improve the quality of care and nursing services. ACNHS is nationally recognized by the Dhaka University and Bangladesh Nursing and Midwifery Council (BNMC), as well as internationally recognized. ACNHS collaborates with MGH and Simmons University in order to develop nursing educators and provide diverse nursing related training to our students. Every year ACNHS arranges workshops or training programs with internationally recognized faculty members for diverse and enhanced learning of our students.

The objective is to introduce stronger palliative care programs in our nations in collaboration with other national and international organizations; provide more expert and professional palliative and health care professionals to our country, a progressive approach to other severe illness such as cancer as well. In 2018 we have launched the ELNEC certification courses for nurses that is recognized by American Association of College and Nursing. As we develop the value and interventions of palliative care, we will develop intervention to increase awareness campaigns among the public that will aware them the importance of palliative care which will give a ray of hope to many people who are underprivileged and giving up on their loved ones living the last stages of prognosis diseases like cancer.

Projects

Enhanced Specialized Nursing Training Program:

COVID-19 Preparedness; Intensive Care Training

  • A 6 months session on mitigation of COVID and other related diseases related to COVID has been taught thoroughly through 4 hours weekly classes by foreign faculties from  Harvard, MGH, etc.
  • Participated Nurses on completion of the curriculum were awarded a Certificate issued by AYAT Education and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston USA.

30 Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) Nurses trained

Training for Nurses and Midwives in Response to COVID-19

Supported by: UNFPA, DGNM

  • Helps nurses and midwives build self-confidence and professionalism towards management of COVID-19 cases and serving patients with the best care and manner.
  • Around 600 government nurses were given thorough and rigorous training on COVID management in the country. Lectures, presentations, demo from both national and international faculty personnel, made the training and online learning fruitful and encouraged more nurses to join these educative sessions.

585 Nurses from all over Bangladesh were trained

Skills training to prepare laboratory assistants for pathology operations with special reference to the collection of COVID-19 specimen collection technique

Supported by: BRAC-SDP

  • Basic laboratory assistant training for the drop-out and underprivileged youth with a special focus on COVID-19 to eradicate poverty and encourage self-dependency.
  • 60 trainees were trained and the training program was conducted both online and offline. The training was conducted by an international expert through the online sessions. It was a 1-month training course including presentation, assignment, project, demo etc. for the trainees. After completing the training trainees got jobs as sample collectors, research assistants, laboratory assistants etc.

60 Youths were trained and  job placement was assured

Mitigating the Spread of COVID-19 in Textile Mills in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Supported by: Integral Global-AYAT Education-BTMA

  • Support factories in adopting best practices and standards around COVID- 19 to increase safety for workers and reduce the contamination of the virus.
  • Decrease the number of new cases of COVID-19 among factory workers and in the community through testing strategies.

25,000+ Textile workers will be screened

SEIP – Skills For Employment Investment Program

Supported by: BGMEA-SEIP

Skills training on Woven Machine Operation trade in the readymade  garments sector with the view to employment for the unemployed,  underprivileged, marginalized people in the garments industry.

It is a 3 monthly hands-on training program. It also trains on soft skills so that trainees can find a proper job. Women and specially-abled people get preference during admission of this training. More than 80% of our trainees gets employed in different garments factories after completing the training program.

STITCH SRHR Tailor-Made information and training to contribute to occupational health and safety conditions of factory workers in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh

Supported by: Nuffic-VU

ASDC is engaged in providing tailor-made innovative SRHR education to future  workers. 4 master trainer received TMT from VU, Netherlands in the year  of 2019. ASDC is working on quality curriculum for SRHR training, including Provide tailor-made innovative SRHR education to future workers.

  • Provide training to health care providers in the sector.
  • Train factory PC and Safety committee members to become aware of
  • the diverse SRHR needs of garment workers.