Better Home4Better Life

Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) has been working to improve their economic condition since 2015. People of Mathurapur village live below the poverty line and subjected to several natural disaster like cyclones, soil salinity. In this area, it is difficult to grow crops and most of them depend on Sundarbans resources for their livelihood. They do not have any educational qualification that they get some job. They put their life in danger to live their livelihood and are trying heart and soul to come from the cycle of poverty.

BEDS has trained them on small scale farming like homestead vegetable gardening, duck and ram raring and sewing. Now they are sewing cloths, bags and masks by themselves and selling the products in the market. Thus, they are contributing to their family expenses. They said, “Now we do not need to risk our life to go Sundarbans to collect shrimp fry. Now there is no fear of tiger. We are earning money in our home by tailoring. We want to do more sewing work to support our family”.

BEDS training hard and soul to empower them by tailoring as there is no life risk and is also respected occupation. So, BEDS has taken an initiative to empower 50 women of Mathurapur village by developing their skill on sewing and also providing them equipments related to sewing through raising fund from GlobalGiving platform.

So, it’s a heartiest appeal to all the donors for being kind to help those vulnerable women to give them a chance to come out from the cycle of poverty and lead a risk free life and also making a better future for their future generation.

We are requesting all our donors to start monthly recurring donation. Please click the following link; https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/changing-life-by-empowering-women?show=recurring

In BANOJIBI, the women are producing several mangrove-based products like mangrove pickle, mangrove honey, mangrove molasses, handicraft items and different local products. They are processing and packaging their developed products. Several visitors visit BANOJIBI and explore their initiatives. The targeted women also selling the products among the visitors and earning money. The women are getting economic benefit from the developed products and become self-dependent.

One of the women expressed her feelings, “I live in this village. There are 5 members in my family including my husband and three children. I used to work in the field as a day labor and use the money to run my family expenses. I used to work from dawn to dusk but got a little amount of money. After the establishment of BANOJIBI, I took training from here and started preparing and packaging mangrove pickle. Now I get higher value of my input. BANOJIBI has made me a working woman and I get respect from our locality. I am very much thankful to get opportunity to vulnerable deprived coastal women like me.

BEDS has established BANOJIBI and there are lots of deprived women in this region. BEDS is unable to support more women due to the lack of funding support. So, it’s a heartiest appeal to all the donors for being kind to help those vulnerable women to give them a chance to come out from the cycle of poverty and lead a respectful life.

We are requesting all our donors to start monthly recurring donation. Please click the following link; https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/changing-life-by-empowering-women/?show=recurring