By M. Sabrin Ahmed Roty | Project Contributor
Empowering women is a must for improving the economy of Bangladesh as women comprises slightly more than half of the population of Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, there are lots of barriers for women to get employed. Basically, women in Bangladesh are the worst sufferers. The women of Mathurapur village are the example of the worst sufferers. As the people of Mathurapur village live below the poverty line and subjected to several natural disaster like cyclones, soil salinity. It is very difficult for them to conduct perform agricultural activities due to high salinity. Moreover, they have no land of their own. They use to earn money by harvesting Sundarbans resources; mainly collecting shrimp fry, crabs, fuel wood risking their life. Even they do not have educational qualification to get a job. They use to lead a miserable life where there is lack of food, drinking water, cloth, nutrition. The women are deprived of the basic human needs.
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) has been trying to improve the life standard of those women by homestead vegetable gardening, duck and ram raring etc. In 2015 BEDS has trained those women but could not support with sewing machines due to fund deficiency. So, those women couldn’t utilize their gathered experience. Realizing the necessity, 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. The required budget for the project is 11,518 $ and so far 934 $ is raised from 23 donations. We hope to raise full fund of the project by 2021 and take proper initiative for women empowerment as described in the proposal.
So, it’s an 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 better life.
By Saumitro Chakrabarti | Project Contributor
By Saumitro Chakrabarti | Project Contributor
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