Emergence of CWFD

CWFD emerged from an emotional response to help women in need of reproductive health care counseling. The organization, originally named as “Concerned Women for Family Planning (CWFP), started its voluntary activities in 1974 to help the refugees coming to Dhaka city after the devastating famine of 1974. The organization was registered in 1975 with the Directorate of Social welfare and formally launched its project activities in 1976 with only 5 female staff to cover an area of Dhaka city comprising around 50,000 people. Rather than following any working model, these workers used their hearts and logic to disseminate family planning information amongst poorest slum dwellers.

Most of them came to Dhaka and lived in makeshift shelters/camps made by the Government without proper water, sanitation and health care. Women and children were the worst sufferers. In this situation a group of Volunteer women started going out to the camps to provide them with

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