CYCD Annual Report 2024-2025 - Flipbook - Page 3
Message from BYL Chairperson
and CYCD Director
Mohammed Jamirul Islam
Chairperson (BYL)
As Chairperson of the Bangladesh Youth
League, operating as the Centre for Youth
and Community Development (CYCD), I
am proud to reflect on another year of
dedication, resilience, and progress.
This year has brought both challenges and
opportunities, and I commend the hard
work of our staff, volunteers, trustees, and
partners who have remained steadfast in
their commitment to our mission. Their
passion and professionalism enable CYCD
to respond to community needs with
compassion,
innovation,
and
determination.
I would also like to extend my sincere
gratitude to our funders and stakeholders
for
their
ongoing
support,
which
empowers us to expand our impact and
work towards a fairer, more inclusive
society.
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Key issues we are addressing include
violence against women and girls,
upskilling and empowering women,
breaking down barriers faced by minority
communities, alleviating poverty, and
ensuring children have the best start in
life.
We are committed to a preventative
approach that tackles discrimination,
improves life expectancy, addresses the
impacts
of
COVID-19,
and
works
proactively to level up opportunities. Our
place-based, community-driven methods
aim to make local services responsive to
Firoza Abdool-Sathar
real needs while ensuring Luton’s
Director (CYCD)
As Director of the Centre for Youth and workforce and institutions truly represent
Community Development (CYCD), I am its diverse population.
deeply aware of the complex challenges
faced by our communities. Now more than At CYCD, we strive not only to campaign
ever, we must harness our collective for change but to enable individuals and
root
out
racism,
strength to tackle systemic injustice and organisations to
inequality,
and
poverty
at
every
level—
inequality and build a fairer, more inclusive
interpersonal,
institutional,
and
systemic.
future.
We do this by raising awareness, building
Our goal is to become financially resilient confidence, inspiring action, creating
and socially transformative—challenging the activists, and ultimately transforming
status
quo
while
shaping
improved communities.
outcomes for all.
This is our mission: to lead meaningful
Our priorities are now clearer and more
change in Luton and beyond, fostering a
focused. We draw on the lived experiences
society where justice, equity, and
of our communities and our extensive
opportunity are realities for all.
networks to influence system change at
regional and national levels. This requires
securing core, unrestricted funding that
supports long-term impact and innovation.
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