RAJSHAHI, June 23 (BSS): Khadiza Khatun, 48, now can sleep in almost happy mode every night as she got a new life eradicating her poverty.
After getting microcredit, Begum earns money regularly through vegetable cultivation and poultry farming.
She was rehabilitated in Joynagar Ashrayan-2 Project under Durgapur upazila in Rajshahi district.
"We all rehabilitated families together are farming fish and rearing duck in pond inside the project area," she added while talking to the news agency.
Like Khadiza, 50 other homeless families were rehabilitated in five barracks of the project.
Lalon Ahmed, another member of the project, says the present government is very sensitive towards the rootless people.
"Now, we have got shelter as a result of the benevolent initiative of the government," he added.
The rehabilitated families got scopes of improving their living and livelihood condition involving them in various income generating activities.
A total of 190 needy families were rehabilitated in 19 barracks of Chorai Ashrayan Project under Shingra upazila in Natore district.
Sherena Begum, one of the rehabilitated members, said the families are engaged in rearing domestic animals at present. Most of them have started saying their long-lasting poverty and hunger goodbye.
Many poor and extreme poor people have got shelter, training and financial support with intervention of the project that contributes a lot towards transforming them into self reliant in the region.
"Once we lived under a shed on the roadside in Baganpara area. Now, we have got a permanent house to live," said Shelekha Begum, 45, a housewife of Halidagachhi Project under Charghat upazila.
She also enjoys micro-credit facilities inspiring her to rear cow and poultry birds. Her eyes were filled with tears when she recalled her earlier hardships.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched the 'Halidagachhi Ashrayan Project II' on February 8, 2014, which has already become popular among landless people of the upazila.
In 1997, Awami League government had launched the Ashrayan project. Thereafter, the government has launched the second phase of the project.
Monwar Hossain, 38, a farmer of Jhikra Thakurjhi Ashrayan Project in Bagmara upazila, said he along with other marginal people is farming fish and vegetables on a cooperative basis.
"Now the government has given us a shelter. We are cultivating vegetables as well as rearing poultry. Our children can continue their studies at home without any hassle as electricity is available here", he added.
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