TOYMU, a Tripura word meaning ‘never ending’, TOYMU, is a local voluntary development organization in Chittagong Hill Tracts. It was established in 1994 by some social-minded students in response to the issues of extreme poverty, low literacy rate, social and political conflict, eroding cultural identity, and high incidence of human rights violations among the indigenous peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Officially it was registered as a non-government voluntary development organization in the Social Service Department of Bangladesh in 1996 and in the NGO Affairs Bureau in 1998.
Its vision is to establish a peaceful society where people of CHT enjoy a life free from poverty, disease, and discrimination. And mission is to bring sustainable development among people of CHT by reducing poverty, eradicating illiteracy, eliminating discrimination and reducing disease & deformity among the marginalized people of CHT undertaking participatory need-based and rights-based development programs.
Since last two decades, Toymu has been making significant contribution for the development of CHTpeople in the field of community empowerment, economic development, education (Formal and Non-formal), gender equality & women development, child development, health and nutrition, water &sanitation, forest and environment, agriculture, human rights and good governance.
Toymu has been working with a wide range of national and international donors such as Arannyak Foundation, European Commission, UNDP, UNICEF, World Food Program, Asian Development Bank,2DANIDA, German Embassy, HOPE’87 Austria, SHIREE, DFID, Save the Children International, SILinternational, Sonne International, X.
avierian Society – Italy, Manitese – Italy, ICIMOD, IPDS, NGOForum, CARE Bangladesh, different departments of Bangladesh Government and Bandarban Hill District Council.By the year 2019 TOYMU has served more than 0.1 million people, positively transforming the quality of their lives. TOYMU is currently working in 7 upazilas of Chittagong Hill Tracts through a team of about 300nos. staffs and volunteers.
Contact Person:
Name: Dinendra Tripura,
Position: Executive Director (ED)
Mobile: +880-1820404034
Email: toymungo@yahoo.com