UBL has taken an emergency humanitarian initiative to provide essential support to more than 2,100 waste workers from 41 wards in Chattogram to mitigate their financial instability and improve livelihood conditions, as a prompt response to an ongoing unrest that made waste workers unable to attend their duties, causing unexpected economic challenges.
To implement this timely initiative, UBL has extended financial aid through its development partner, Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) who executed this initiative.
UBL has been running the country’s largest municipal-backed plastic waste initiative since 2022. Currently, 2,100 waste workers are part of this, whose livelihood enhancement is an important component of this project in Chattogram. The company quickly assessed the situation on ground and started disbursing financial aid to the waste workers from 1 August 2024. Other than the additional aid, the project is continuing to collect plastic waste on a limited scale to sustain the income of the waste workers in this difficult time.
Having operated for more than six decades in Bangladesh, UBL's dedication to various aspects of its business, including safety, environmental stewardship, productivity, and quality has set an exceptional benchmark. UBL will continue to drive impactful support initiatives to create an empowering and environmentally responsible future for Bangladesh.