Welcome to BIJAM

BIJAM is the short form of Bidhyarthi Jagarn Mancha in Nepali, translated in English as Student Awareness Forum. It was formed in 1995 with registered (Reg. .No – 163/052/053) in Parsa District Administration Office and affiliated with the Social Welfare Council (Affln. 3763/052/053) and PAN (301683733). The focus of work for the last 18 years has been on increasing the awareness and knowledge about Drug, HIV & AIDS through many different projects. Recently program on tuberculosis has been added in the Parsa district as part of TB HIV co-infection intervention. These programs have been taken the social message to schools, colleges, factories and through its mass communication programs to the general public. However, interpersonal communication strategy has been applied amongst project target group as major intervention of the projects. In more recent years it has centered on the TB, HIV and drug risk reduction services including behavior change communication interventions, access to clean needles and syringes, condom distribution, VCT, STI treatment and active TB case detection. BIJAM is renowned in the community for its networking and trying to bring the community together for fighting against health hazard & other epidemics.

As the HIV & AIDS epidemic has reached concentrated levels among key target groups BIJAM has been focusing its activities more on care & support and advocating for the rights of deprived and disadvantaged group. Currently BIJAM has been implementing HIV & AIDS Comprehensive Package (including community care centre) in Bara, Parsa and Makwanpur under GFATM Round 7/Save the Children, Drug Treatment & Rehabilitation Program in Birgunj under UNDP/DFID, Comprehensive Programme for IDUs, PLHAs, FSWs and their clients in Parsa under ASHA/USAID fund, HIV & AIDS Comprehensive Package for Migrant and Their Families under UNDP/DFID and TB Reach project under FHI/Stop TB Program/World Bank. Moreover, American Corner Birgunj/Community Library has been additionally adjoined with BIJAM as part of resource centre under American Embassy.

OUR AREAS OF WORK

From the President

We would like to thank all the beneficiaries who are enrolled in BIJAM through different programs being carried out.

We do hope that the services we have been delivering will be fruitful and benefited for long run. In behalf of the program we wish the entire target group have a constructive future.

I would like to offer my heartfelt thanks & gratitude to the staffs for their valuable contribution has been highly appreciated. Without their effort, carrying out the programme and provide quality service to target group would not have been feasible. , their sincere effort has added milestones in the program.

We would like to express thank to all the Government bodies, Non government bodies together with all the Community based organization’s who has always held up and supported in the betterment and improvement for helping stepping ahead in the way of success. We would like to thank other service providing agencies working in the Parsa district in HIV & AIDS sector. I wish to acknowledge here all the funding agencies regarding their valuable support to strengthen staff’s as well as organizational capacity for delivering quality service amongst project beneficiaries and run program smoothly.

Finally, we have come a long way, our journey has just begun. There is much more to be done in combat against HIV & AIDS. These are remarkable results for an organization and it would not have been possible without the support from the community level and support of well-wishers.

Mahesh Aryal
President

"I feel very honoured to work with BIJAM a social Organisation as a peer educator previously and now as a community outreach worker in the harm reduction program. I am committed to the positive behaviour that I adopted and very optimistic that I will be able to sustain it. I was given drug treatment and now I am free from drugs and behave responsibly. It is now over twenty three months and I have never thought of taking drugs again."

Sanjay Singh

Recovered from Drug Abuse

“ My counsellor helped me a lot to understand the reality. I got chance to work in the treatment centre. My life was moving with the sharing and making aware the fellowship about the drug. I applied in the vacancy opened by BIJAM. I was called for the interview and selected as a Warden for the drug treatment centre. I am working with the relation whom, I had broken during my drug using time and working to be rehabilitating in the society. I have realized my responsibility and loyalty towards my family and the organization working. I really thank BIJAM and its counsellor for giving me the new definition of life."