An Initiative for Better Home4BetterLife

Empowering women is a must for improving the economy of Bangladesh as women comprises slightly more than half of the population of Bangladesh. Women empowerment is a complex process in Bangladesh through some economic, social and political barrier. The women of Mathurapur village live below the poverty line and are the victim of natural disasters. Every year, cyclones visit in this area. This is a highly saline area which creates several health issues for women and they could not take some protective measures due to their poverty. It is very difficult for them to conduct perform agricultural activities due to high salinity and disasters. Moreover, they have no land of their own. They use to earn money by harvesting Sundarbans resources; mainly collecting shrimp fry. 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. They are grooving in the darkness of poverty.

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 860 $ is raised from 17 donations. We hope to raise full fund of the project by 2020 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 healthy life.