Masjid Council for Community Advancement (MACCA) is a faith based development, humanitarian and campaigning organization working for human security, sustainable integrated development, peace and communal harmony. Registered with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh under Societies Act, MACCA started its interventions in 1999. MACCA has a country wide interfaith network in Bangladesh with trained Imams and leaders and followers from different religions. MACCA’s organizational capacity and strong network around the country has placed itself in an ideal position to facilitate faith based partnerships in development and humanitarian work and to initiate culturally appropriate and effective interfaith campaigns to address people’s values, misconceptions and behavioral issues deep rooted in culture and traditional practices.
MACCA is dedicated to working with individuals, challenged communities and other development and humanitarian partners to overcome people’s vulnerability and sufferings irrespective of their religion, race, ethnicity or gender. Inspired by core values of Islam, MACCA strives for creating an egalitarian society free from poverty, extremism and injustice.
Through the implementation of a faith based development model, MACCA works for creating a world free from poverty, inequality, extremism and injustice. Within next five years MACCA would like to see itself playing an international mainstream development, humanitarian and campaigning role with wide networks, alliances, partners and offices around the world and launching a long term global interfaith campaign to address global human security, extremism, communal harmony, peace and development.
All activities of MACCA are guided by the following values and principles—
Equality and equityMACCA believes that all human beings are born equal and MACCA’s work contributes to the equity to address any forms of inequality.
Access and inclusion: MACCA believes in inclusion and access for all regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, social status, or gender.
Peace, tolerance and communal harmony: MACCA strives to promote peace, tolerance and communal harmony through its work.
Social rights and responsibilities: MACCA believes in shared social rights and responsibilities and creates options for people to have the rights and perform the responsibilities.
Results: MACCA is result oriented. Whatever MACCA does, MACCA would like to see its results from the field.
