Rokeya Day marks success of 3 women

Sr Staff Reporter, Rangpur :

Three women from Rangpur region Pratama Rani Roy, Sabina Begum and Mariam Begum-have proven that adversity can never stop a woman’s progress.

Breaking the walls of torture, poverty and social deprivation, they are today the builders of their own lives.

Pratima Rani Roy, a speech and hearing impaired woman from Gangachara Upazila, was once a victim of premature marriage, family torture and abandonment by her husband.

She joined the Prosperity Project of the Gram Bikash Kendra and started raising ducks and goats.

Currently, her farm has 18 goats and multiple sources of income. In recognition of this success, she received the ‘Best Indomitable Woman’ award at the upazila level.

Sabina Begum of the same upazila has gradually built a golden chicken farm after overcoming the poverty of a daily wage laborer family.

Currently, there are about 1,100 chickens in her farm. As a successful entrepreneur, she is also training local women. She won the ‘Shreshtha Adhomya Nari Puraskar-2025’.

Maryam Begum of Kaunia Upazila has emerged from the reality of poverty and child marriage and started raising cows and built an integrated farm.

She is now earning a regular income by raising cows, goats and poultry and has become an inspiration to the women of the village. She also won the ‘Shreshtha Adhomya Nari Puraskar-2025’ at the Upazila level.

Upazila Nirbahi Officer Jasmine Akhter handed over the awards to the winners at a program organised by the Department of Women’s Affairs on the occasion of Begum Rokeya Day.

The stories of these three women are not just personal successes they are a message of courage and hope for countless women in rural Bengal.