Farjina Malek works as the Programme Officer, Dialogue and Exchange at NETZ Bangldesh. NETZ is a German NGO; implementing their activities only in Bangladesh and India. Their focuses are reducing poverty, upgrading the level of nutrition of extreme poor people, spreading education for the poor children and networking on human rights issue for the women especially who are poor and marginalized in Bangladesh. Before joining here, she worked as Project Officer for the Bangladesh Legal Reform Project, which is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency and executed by the Government of Bangladesh, Canadian Bar Association and IBM Canada. The project supports underprivileged people in receiving legal aid service from Bangladeshi judicial system. Farjina initially joined to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in Bangladesh just after completing her post graduation from Health and Society in South Asia (MAHSSA) in 2010. She joined there as fundraiser for the people with disabilities. She also wrote her thesis based on the ethnographic field work at CRP. The title of her thesis is "Disability and Rehabilitation: an Ethnography of the `Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed,' Bangladesh.
Farjina Malek's M.A. thesis can be found here.
Update: Farjina Malek is doing PhD in the Public Health and Social Work Department at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. She is working on the mothers' caring experiences for their children with a physical disability in Bangladesh. Before starting her PhD, Farjina had been working in the development sectors in Bangladesh and Australia for seven years. Her working area includes gender, disability and education. She worked at Centacare Australia, NETZ Bangladesh, Bangladesh Legal Reform Project of CIDA, and Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP). Farjina initially joined to the CRP in Bangladesh just after completing her post graduation from Health and Society in South Asia (MAHSSA) in 2010. She joined there as fundraiser for the people with disabilities. She also wrote her thesis based on the ethnographic field work at CRP. The title of her thesis is "Disability and Rehabilitation: an Ethnography of the `Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed,' Bangladesh.
