Sustainable Poverty Reduction and Human Development:
The development interventional unit of GoB is each Household. DUS believes if the member of the HHs are developed then they can play an active role to bring immense changes within their families. As a whole each household take part into the process of socio-economic development of the country. This Organization’s aim to help its member’s inherent abilities to flourish such a way so that they are endowed with the key to their progress to a sustainable livelihood restoration. With renewed confidence and hope, the poor, then, move ahead and break free from the shackles of multidimensional poverty and indignity and achieve living standards characterized by human freedom and dignity, along with material uplift. 

Focus on Landless poor:
DUS concentrates on the settlement of landless poor families who are victims of major riverbank erosion & affected by several natural disasters like tropical cyclone, salinity, tidal surge etc that are living below poverty line in the coastal district of Bangladesh.

Empowerment of Women:
Over 87% of our target population/beneficiaries are poor women. DUS believes if women are empowered towards right direction, they can play an active role to bring vital changes within their families as well as in the communities. Through awareness raising, exchange of information, right based education including training on social, legal, economic and other barring issues concerning their livelihood, women can bring radical changes in their family as well as community.

Organizing underprivileged poor Self Help Groups:
DUS has already organized poor woman Self Help Groups in the form of Samity/village organization in the most disadvantaged and underserved areas of Noakhali, Kumilla, Feni, Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Chandpur, Laxmipur, Bhola and Dhaka district. Each Samity consists of 25-30 group members. Till now, DUS has been able to organize over 2211 Self Help Groups, where 245 are male and 1966 are female as on 16^th December’2020.  The said Self Help Groups are contributing towards socio-economic and disaster management in the respective coastal communities.

Essential health care services:
DUS at present has been operating remarkable number of static and satellite clinics in fur-flung char areas to reduce maternal and child death by raising nutritional status of the unnerved communities living in coastal districts.

Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation:
Disaster Management Education at community level including capacity building of local govt. authorities in DRR and CCA are one of the major focuses of all program interventions being undertaken by DUS. More than 150 volunteers are working in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation program in all the union of Hatiya Island and other DUS covering areas.