Northern Region
Rural women contribute to cutting poverty
The rural women have been contributing laudably to alleviating poverty for attaining self-reliance through income-generations in the northern region to change the overall rural socio-economic scenario in recent years.
Head of Women's Rights of RDRS Bangladesh Monjusree Saha said the distressed women are now engaged in various income-generating activities after winning over poverty and driving away monga (a seasonal famine like situation).
"The womenfolk has achieved laudable economic success with empowerment through sewing handloom garments, cottage industries, business, animal husbandry, poultry, homestead gardening, farming fruits, vegetables and other agri-activities," she added.
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer of Rangpur Mokhlesur Rahman said hundreds of distressed rural women have achieved self-reliance from social safety-net programmes.
Chilmari upazila Chairman Shawkat Ali Sarker, Bir Bikram, and Taramon Bibi, Bir Pratik, said many rural women lived amid miseries following abject poverty and their children could not go to schools in the past.
Talking to the news agency, successful rural women Bulbuli Begum, Morsheda, Sabina Yasmin and Kamola Rani said they attained economic self-reliance through hard endevours. And currently, there is no incident of starving anywhere in their villages.
With feeling of satisfaction in their faces, the successful women said their children are now going to schools with better living though the days were miserable even few years ago before winning against poverty, hunger and illiteracy.
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