10, 000 poor women become self-reliant in Barguna
BSS, Barguna :
About 10,000 distressed women and girls in six upazilas of the district have achieved economic self-reliance through various income-generating activities during the last seven years.
The women and girls with their own initiatives have taken training on various income-generating programmes from Social Welfare Department, Women Affairs Department, Youth Development Department, NGOs and Livestock Department, said Md Waliur Rahman, Social Welfare Officer in Barguna.
District Women Affairs Officer Meherunnessa Munni said these departments have also extended credit facilities to the women and undertaking different projects side by side with creating marketing facilities of their products.
Most of them have achieved success through sewing, embroidery, handloom garments, setting up cottage industries, animal husbandry, rearing cows, goats and poultry birds, homestead gardening, farming of vegetables, fruits, spices, fish and agricultural activities.
As a result of relentless efforts of those women and girls, the socio-economic condition of the rural people who lived in utter miseries even few years back have changed their life style significantly along with their empowerment in the families and society as a whole. They have been bringing them under complete sanitation coverage.
After achieving economic self-reliance the poor women are now hoping to contribute their maximum efforts in building poverty and hunger free Bangladesh by making the Vision 2021 a success, said Advocate Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu, MP of Barguna-1 constituency.
About 10,000 distressed women and girls in six upazilas of the district have achieved economic self-reliance through various income-generating activities during the last seven years.
The women and girls with their own initiatives have taken training on various income-generating programmes from Social Welfare Department, Women Affairs Department, Youth Development Department, NGOs and Livestock Department, said Md Waliur Rahman, Social Welfare Officer in Barguna.
District Women Affairs Officer Meherunnessa Munni said these departments have also extended credit facilities to the women and undertaking different projects side by side with creating marketing facilities of their products.
Most of them have achieved success through sewing, embroidery, handloom garments, setting up cottage industries, animal husbandry, rearing cows, goats and poultry birds, homestead gardening, farming of vegetables, fruits, spices, fish and agricultural activities.
As a result of relentless efforts of those women and girls, the socio-economic condition of the rural people who lived in utter miseries even few years back have changed their life style significantly along with their empowerment in the families and society as a whole. They have been bringing them under complete sanitation coverage.
After achieving economic self-reliance the poor women are now hoping to contribute their maximum efforts in building poverty and hunger free Bangladesh by making the Vision 2021 a success, said Advocate Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu, MP of Barguna-1 constituency.