MBSWSS
Model Building for Safe Water Supply Service by Local Government Institution
The Asia Arsenic Network (AAN) is a nongovernmental and nonprofit-making volunteer organization. Its headquarters is in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan and it has offices in Dhaka and Jessore, Bangladesh. It was created in 1994 with the Toroku Spirit (walking together, working together). It envisions a world where the people of arsenic contaminated area have strength to tackle arsenic problems and the arsenicosis patients are properly managed.
In Bangladesh, it has been mainly working on arsenic issues with its diverse experience and interdisciplinary expertise on the community, hydrogeological setting, technical know-how of safe water devices, and management of arsenicosis patients since 1996.​
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The Asia Arsenic Network (AAN)
​Vision & Mission​
A world where the people of arsenic contaminated area have strength to tackle arsenic problems and the arsenicosis patients are properly managed. In Bangladesh, AAN wants to see a country where easy access to safe water is ensured and management of arsenicosis patients is carried out with much care and coordination of all concerned. Create a heaven of safe water and healthy living for arsenic affected people.
The AAN is staffed with a bunch of hardworking, dedicated and experienced persons on community development, hydrogeology, engineering, chemistry and public health. It conducts its activities in an integrated approach which develops the community through PRA (Participatory Reflection and Action), judges the community needs and builds up ownership through users’ share collection. Then it conducts a hydrogeological feasibility survey, constructs the safe water devices, and finally makes sure the sustainable maintenance of the safe water devices. Together with this, arsenicosis patient management is carried out. It does not forget to integrate Local Government Institutions and line agencies to implement activities and to carry on the good practices produced from any project.
It has a training cell which provides all-encompassing trainings which are fundamentally necessary for arsenic mitigation. The AAN provides water quality testing services, and consultancy for safe water device installation. Research and development is one of the focuses of our organization for the perfection of safe water supply. We have close connection with many research organizations of home and abroad. We do always prefer networking with organizations working in the same field, or who are interested to start working in the same field for sharing and updating experiences gathered from implementing activities. We believe that togetherness is the key to success.
All these activities are done under the umbrella of Arsenic Center which works as a junction of bringing together the people of the world with the aim of supplying safe water to the poorest and grass-root community.

Source: AAN Bangladesh Website