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Publication: Xinhuanet
Date: November 12, 2003
URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-11/12/content_1174914.htm
Over 200 Islamic non-governmental
organizations (NGO) operating in Bangladesh are facing acute financial
crisis due to sharp decline in the flow of funds, reported the Independent
newspaper on Wednesday.
Those Islamic NGOs with 25,000 employees
are primarily run on funds from donor agencies and charity organizations
mostly from Muslim countries, according to sources from the Association
of Muslim Welfare Agencies in Bangladesh (AMWAB), the apex body of the
Islamic NGOs in the country.
The sources denied the Islamic NGOs
in Bangladesh receive fundsfrom the government of any Muslim country.
Some non-muslim organizations that
used to fund their projects,however, suspended or even withdrew their funding
following the terror attack of Sept. 11, 2001, while the funds from Muslim
countries have been reduced at an alarming rate since "911" incident, said
the sources.
Director of the NGO Affairs Bureau
of Bangladesh SM Meshbahul Salam admitted on Wednesday that some of the
Islamic NGOs had already abandoned their projects and retrenched the stuff
to fightfor survival. Enditem
