10 physically challenged women get sewing machines in Rajshahi
BSS, Rajshahi :
Some 10 trained women with special needs received sewing machines from Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) in order to make them self-reliant after the best uses of the received goods.
Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project (UPPRP) donated the machines aims at improving living and livelihood condition of the challenged women.
City Mayor Musaddique Hossain Bulbul distributed the income-generating goods at a function in the city bhaban conference hall yesterday afternoon as the chief guest with Chief Executive Officer Ajahar Ali in the chair.
He urged the authorities concerned to extend more such cooperation to bring many other persons with disabilities under money-making activities for their economic emancipation.
Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has been implementing the UPPRP in the metropolis in association with UNDP and UKAid in order to improving livelihood condition of around two and half lakh poor and extreme poor people, especially women and girls.
The beneficiary communities identify and prioritize the environmental, social and economic challenges they face as well as the required actions to address them, said UPPRP Town Manager Mahbubul Alam.
More than 33,000 households from slum and underprivileged areas across the city have come together in an anti-poverty savings scheme to raise more than Taka 11.5 crore.
Through the savings and credit programmes, the communities now can operate their own savings schemes and create a revolving fund from which credit operations are being managed by themselves.
More than 9,200 households receive block grants worth Taka five crore while Taka 4.2 crore were disbursed among 10,400 dropout school children for restarting their institutional education.
The programme promotes household and community level urban food production technology demonstrations and provides small input supports especially high yielding variety vegetable and fruits seeds, saplings, ducklings, chick and poultry vaccination.
It also provides business start-up grants to extreme poor women for poultry, goat rearing, beef fattening and agri-business allowing them to have access to regular income.
Besides, the ongoing apprenticeships and vocational training improves the likelihood of youth giving them an opportunity to have decent jobs and regular income.
Various other settlement improvement facilities like 11,000 pit latrines, 2,300 tube wells, 57,000 square-metre footpath and 9,000 metre drain were developed for ensuring improved water and sanitation among the poverty-prone communities.
Some 10 trained women with special needs received sewing machines from Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) in order to make them self-reliant after the best uses of the received goods.
Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project (UPPRP) donated the machines aims at improving living and livelihood condition of the challenged women.
City Mayor Musaddique Hossain Bulbul distributed the income-generating goods at a function in the city bhaban conference hall yesterday afternoon as the chief guest with Chief Executive Officer Ajahar Ali in the chair.
He urged the authorities concerned to extend more such cooperation to bring many other persons with disabilities under money-making activities for their economic emancipation.
Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has been implementing the UPPRP in the metropolis in association with UNDP and UKAid in order to improving livelihood condition of around two and half lakh poor and extreme poor people, especially women and girls.
The beneficiary communities identify and prioritize the environmental, social and economic challenges they face as well as the required actions to address them, said UPPRP Town Manager Mahbubul Alam.
More than 33,000 households from slum and underprivileged areas across the city have come together in an anti-poverty savings scheme to raise more than Taka 11.5 crore.
Through the savings and credit programmes, the communities now can operate their own savings schemes and create a revolving fund from which credit operations are being managed by themselves.
More than 9,200 households receive block grants worth Taka five crore while Taka 4.2 crore were disbursed among 10,400 dropout school children for restarting their institutional education.
The programme promotes household and community level urban food production technology demonstrations and provides small input supports especially high yielding variety vegetable and fruits seeds, saplings, ducklings, chick and poultry vaccination.
It also provides business start-up grants to extreme poor women for poultry, goat rearing, beef fattening and agri-business allowing them to have access to regular income.
Besides, the ongoing apprenticeships and vocational training improves the likelihood of youth giving them an opportunity to have decent jobs and regular income.
Various other settlement improvement facilities like 11,000 pit latrines, 2,300 tube wells, 57,000 square-metre footpath and 9,000 metre drain were developed for ensuring improved water and sanitation among the poverty-prone communities.
