Success story of a woman stumbles over shortage of capital

JHENIDAH, Jan 5: Activities in 'Lucky Handicraft and Tailors' Training Centre' in Kalaroa upazila in Satkhira are greatly being hampered due to lack of capital.

Hosneara Lucky who passed the HSC exam in 1991 had always dreamt in her student life to be a woman entrepreneur employing many others in her business.

Lucky, proprietor of the centre has been running it commercially at Shripatipur under Kalaroa municipality for the last eight years engaging many female workers for making different types of ladies' dress. Besides, she is offering three-month training courses on tailoring, embroidery and block to hundreds of students.

Now she has eight sewing, two embroidery and two block machines in her workplace. Various types of dresses, including three pieces, sarees, fotua, and scarves are embroidered here.

Her products being attractive and durable, this expert woman receives orders from traders of different parts in Bangladesh, including Dhaka and supplies them to places.

Lucky said that from tailoring, and embroidery works she is now earning around Tk 20,000 per month.

However, constraint of capital for buying more machines, is posing a hurdle for extension of her business.

Jesmin Akhtar, residing nearby, said, "Sister Lucky can flourish her business adding more machines to the existing ones if she gets funds from any bank under refunding facilities of Bangladesh Bank."

Most of the three hundred girls and housewives who have taken training from Lucky coming from in and around the upazila are sewing clothes and doing embroidery work at their houses at present.

Brishti Khatun, 12, a student of class six, said she had learnt how to sew clothes in 15 days of her three-month training course in the institution.

Hosneara lucky said, "If I got capital to collect more machines, I could extend my business creating job opportunities for more female workers and give training to students on a large scale."

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