Prochesta reported progress for weeks five to eight on site preparation, farmer training, community clean-ups and technical advice from BUET.
Pushpa's team plans to visit in December to check progress on the ground.
- In progress
- Project Better Lake Than Never
- Hatirjheel
- Agriculture
£5,000Total deployed
What this did for 20-30 farmers.
Farming knowledge that stopped counting when they moved to the city.
- 1 YR
- Duration
- 30
- Participants
- 100-150
- Indirect reach
- 6mo
- Duration
local residents
pilot period
The land is there. The farmers are there. Everything else is what's been missing.
Hatirjheel's lake edges are some of Dhaka's most neglected spaces. Degraded soil. Waste dumping. Land that has been written off.
Living alongside it: low-income families, many of them first-generation migrants from rural Bangladesh who grew up farming. In the city, that knowledge does not count. No training, no tools, no route to market.
The result is a double waste. Productive land sitting unused. Experienced growers with nowhere to take their skills.
Where every pound went
| Ref | Line item | Amount | Share | Chk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-01 | Training | £1,000 | 20.0% | |
| L-02 | Agricultural inputs | £2,000 | 40.0% | |
| L-03 | Monitoring and documentation | £1,000 | 20.0% | |
| L-04 | Scoping and replication | £1,000 | 20.0% | |
| Σ | Total deployed | £5,000 | 100% |
Founders covered all operational costs, so members' contributions went to the project.
Six months. Four things.
01
The farmers who came forward
Participants were confirmed from those who had already approached Youth Prochesta for support. Plots were agreed, baselines recorded and the Jheel Krishi Farmer and Youth Stewardship Group formed to run the work.
02
Seeds, tool and how to use them
Training in agroecology, composting, safe cultivation, and basic enterprise ran alongside procurement. Every farmer left with what they needed to start.
03
Planting the lake edge
Vegetables, herbs and seedlings went into degraded lake-edge land. Youth took on maintenance, composting and record-keeping. The site started to look like somewhere people were working.
04
From the ground to the market
Youth Prochesta connected the harvest to local buyers: residents, vendors, restaurants, community networks. Produce was tracked and sales recorded.
Updates
Farmers joined a full-day training and workshop in Dhaka run by Prochesta Foundation, as the project moved from setup into hands-on skills.
The six-month project officially launched with a farmers' orientation and kick-off in Tejgaon, Dhaka, including a field visit to the lake-edge plots at Hatirjheel.
Prochesta Foundation completed the first milestone: a profile for every farmer, including Ismail, Raksana, Aiyasa, Amena, Lovely and Nasir, and a volunteer team briefed for the weekly work.
Meetings with RAJUK and the Hatirjheel authority slipped, as both needed more time to schedule.
