By M. Sabrin Ahmed Roty | Project Contributor
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) has been working to improve the life standard and to create safe livelihood scope for the coastal community since 2015.
The people 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 everyone specially women and child. 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. They use to earn money by harvesting Sundarbans resources. Women of this village risk their life to go to Sundarbans to collect shrimp fry and fuel wood.
BEDS has been working to create alternate income generating activities to improve their life standardby homestead vegetable gardening, duck and ram raring, tailoring etc. BEDS provided training to the coastal women and now they are earning their livelihood without any life risk by tailoring. They said, “Before we used to go Sundarbans to collect fuel wood and shrimp fry. Sometimes, we got injured by this activities. Now we do not go to the forest and earn their livelihood by tailoring. They are contributing in their family income”.
Only few women are earning money through tailoring. There is many women who want to learn tailoring to come out the cycle of poverty. 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 safe life.
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