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Sustainable development in the era of climate change: Where VGO stands!

Our Vision

Vision: Transforming communities through Greentech, entrepreneurship, and youth empowerment.

As the initial name indicates, our Vision is to achieve a Green and Sustainably Habitable Earth by 2030!

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Our mission

Mission: Addressing environmental, climate change, and socioeconomic challenges through sustainable technologies and business models.

Our core values

Human-Centered

All of our thoughts, approaches, and actions are followed by the human-centered design philosophy. We prioritize the contextual aspect, cultural preference, and traditional sentiments while adopting measures to achieve sustainability.

Eco-Friendly

We promote an eco-friendly lifestyle that is minimalistic, cost-effective, resource-efficient, and upcycled yet healthy and happy.

Youth-Oriented

We put the youth (including the children) at the heart of our work. We believe that youth are the future of this earth, and the sense of sustainability among them can safeguard the future of our planet and civilization.

Diverse & inclusive

As we are already working in 4 countries, we have experienced and firmly believe in diversity. We welcome diversity, be it religious, political, cultural, gender, sexuality, etc. VGO is an inclusive entity where we gladly and proudly accept differences as long as we respect each other and trust in sustainability.

Our Aims

  • Creating a global platform to create awareness
  • Partnering with the national governments and international institutes/organisations to influence policy-level changes.
  • Conducting research to promote evidence-based advocacy and prototype new ideas.
  • Making eco-friendly lifestyle accessible.

Our Objectives

  • Utilising different social media platforms to promote an eco-friendly lifestyle
  • Developing a marketplace (initially a virtual one) to connect eco-friendly product buyers and sellers.
  • Eco-tourism
  • Collaborating with global bodies such as the European Union (EU), United Nations (UN) bodies, Erasmus, national governments (especially from the Global South), international and local NGOs, etc.
  • Prototyping projects to iterate and pilot sustainable ideas.
  • Providing consultancy support to sustainable business ideas and initiatives.
  • Developing and providing branding and marketing solutions for eco-friendly Green entrepreneurs.

Our Team

Board of Directors

Md Alif Al Montasir Jim

Md Alif Al Montasir Jim

Founder & Chairperson

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Sonia sahid

Sonia Shahid

Advisor & Member Secretary

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Sohanur Rahman

Sohanur Rahman

Advisor (Climate Action)

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International Governing Committee

Md Abid Hasan

Md Abid Hasan

Lead, Research & Advocacy

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Mazedur Rahim Fiaz

Mazedur Rahim Fiaz

Lead, Creative Design

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Ghurni Bhattacharya

Ghurni Bhattacharya

International Outreach & Program Coordinator

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Nabin Bhattarai

Nabin Bhattarai

Country Representative, Nepal

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