Population Crisis Control and Mass Education Committee (PCC & MEC) is a non-profit, non-political, and non- Government voluntary organization came into appearance in 1985 with the initiative of a few young people under the leadership of renowned freedom fighter Mr. Mirza Taslim Hossain. After the independence, he was involved in business and working in rural areas of Khulna, Bagerhat and Satkhira. After 15 years of independence, he and his friends and fellows involved in freedom fight in 1971 were upset with the poverty, health, education and disaster situations of the rural areas of his fighting constituencies (Sector 9). Then they decided to leave the business and start the social movement for eradication of poverty, improve health, water, and sanitation condition of the poor people, enhance literacy of the mass and poor people, and to help the disaster victims in the coastal areas including Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat, Barguna, Patuakhali and Bhola. Then the first general committee decided to make the organization registered. It was first registered in Social Welfare in 1986 as a non-profit organization. During 1986 to 1991, the PCC & MEC worked with other national NGOs as social mobilization partners who were partner of ODA. In 1991, the organization received direct fund from ODA and registered under the NGO Affairs Bureau. The founder of the PCC & MEC died in 14th August of 2006 in a road accident, and many of the founder members retired and passed away with leaving so much strengths and capacity for new generation of social worker to fulfill their dreams.
Since its inception, the spirit of the organization remains focused to work for the marginal people in rural and urban areas. The first decade (1985-1994) the organization focused on “Human Development” in terms of health, education, nutrition, agricultural, and disaster relief service delivery to protect the vulnerable men, women and children in rural and urban areas. The second decade (1995-2004) the organization focused capacity building of the poor and marginal for “human development” in relation to health, water sanitation, technology transfer, education, nutrition, micro-credit, and disaster preparedness. The third decade (2005-2014) added livelihood promotion of the poor as additional input for the sustainable ‘human development’ of the urban and rural poor. In the current decade (2015-2024), the organization has added ‘risk informed human development’, which includes climate change adaptation, adaptation technology innovation, innovative and inclusive financing, disaster risk reduction, humanitarian response, and protecting the human rights of the most vulnerable people struggling with identity challenges in the dominant power structures.