Shimantik, a national non-government organization in Bangladesh, started its activities back in 1979 initially to provide succor to the flood- stricken people of Zakigonj and Kanaighat upazilas of Sylhet. It has since expanded its activities to cover wide ranging geographical and programmatic areas like non-formal and formal education, skill training, primary health care, reproductive health, family planning, new-born care, health research, non communicable disease, environmental development, women’s development, income generating activities and disaster relief. Shimantik is one of the few NGOs in Bangladesh which has its head office in a rural area (at Zakigonj of Sylhet) and branch offices in urban area (including Dhaka) and other rural areas. It has 29 branch offices in different places of Bangladesh. It has implemented several big health care services projects both in rural and urban areas. It has implemented an USAID funded health care service delivery project in six upazi...