How are the survivors?

A hard working woman was leading her life very well with her old parents and two daughters. She was earning around Tk 15,000 every month. She had a dream to provide her two daughters with higher education.
Such was the scene two years ago. But now she is passing an intolerable life. Her life is at stake. Several kinds of physical and mental pains are now her day to day companion.
This is Jhorna Begum who was working on the 3rd floor of Phantom Garments of Rana Plaza. Divorced from her husband she came from Brahmanbaria along with her sexagenarian parents and daughters to keep the wheel of her life running as she was passing an unbearable life. Jhorna was the only earning member of her five-member family.
Jhorna Begum said, "One day when I was earning a handsome amount of money every month I was appreciated by all but as I can't earn anything at present I have become a burden to all."
While talking to this correspondent Jhorna Begum couldn't stop her tears.
She said, "I got only around Tk 80 to 90 thousand as financial support from different persons but that was so meagre as still I am unable to earn money and I am suffering from serious pain."
She also said she met with the Upazila Nirbahi Officer with a view to getting Tk 1.20 million (12 lakh) which was to be given by the government but she couldn't get it.
Like Jhorna Begum, Shohag Ahmed also came to Dhaka with family members to lead a good life. But luck didn't favour them. Shohag is now passing an unemployed life as still he doesn't know when he will return to his normal life. Still Shohag couldn't find his mother Shahanaj Begum who was working on the fifth floor of Rana Plaza. Someone also told him that his mother passed away.
Manjurul Karim, rehabilitation manager of CRP, said: "We have rehabilitated more than 500 victims of Rana Plaza by providing them with financial and physical supports."
On April 24, 2013 Rana Plaza, an eight-storey commercial building housing clothing factories, a bank, apartments, and several other shops, collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka. The search for the dead ended on May 13, 2013 with a death toll of 1,129. Approximately 2,515 injured people were rescued from the building alive.
It is considered the deadliest garment-factory accident in history.
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