12 violence-victim women rehabilitated in Rangpur

RANGPUR, Oct 31 (BSS): RDRS Bangladesh rehabilitated Sunday twelve women who became victims of early marriage, dowry, torture, human trafficking and domestic violence. After providing nine-month training on making mat, bag and tailoring, the NGO distributed certificates and necessary inputs to each of them at a closing ceremony of the course arranged at RSKS Office. The victim women are now set to start a new journey of achieving economic self-reliance and social dignity through income generation activities in their poor families in Rajendrapur union in Rangpur. Under its SIGNAL project, RDRS Bangladesh and Rajendrapur Samaj Kallyan Sangstha (RSKS) organized the training course to develop skills of the tortured and vulnerable women to make them self-dependent and ensure legal justice. After completion of the nine-month training course, the NGO organised the `Closing Session for the Trainees of Mat, Bag Making and Tailoring Training'. Head of Women's Rights of RDRS Bangladesh Monjusree Saha attended the occasion as the chief guest with President of RSKS Ferdousi Begum in the chair. The violence-victims, their parents, members of Rajendrapur union parishad, activists of RSKS, officials of RDRS Bangladesh and local journalists were present. The victims narrated as how they were married off in exchange for dowry, tortured or trafficked due to lack of education, poverty and social superstition as well as wrong decisions of their guardians. "We were physically immature and inexperienced in life and knowledge before marriages and witnessed horror episodes with torture by husbands, father- and mother-in-laws as well as other members of the family," they said.