Narsingdi women attain self-reliance thru income generating activities

NARSINGDI, Mar 30 (BSS): Women in rural areas of Narsingdi district have been playing an important role in alleviating poverty and attaining self-reliance to change rural economy through income generating activities during the last couple of years.
As a result of relentless efforts in combating poverty, socio-economic condition of the rural women who lived in utter miseries even a few years back has changed significantly along with their empowerment in the families and society as a whole.
According to available statistics in the government and NGO offices, number of child labourers and floating street children has been reduced due to the silent revolution being taking place in the rural economy in recent years.
Hundreds of rural women have already achieved self-reliance with own initiatives and also getting assistances from different organisations, which are extending supports, trainings and inputs side by side with creating marketing facilities for their products.
Most of them have achieved successes through sewing handloom garments, animal husbandry, rearing cows, goats and poultry birds, homestead gardening, farming fruits, spices, fish and agri-activities. Many of them have also achieved self-reliance through farming early variety vegetables and setting up cottage and smaller industries, participatory social afforestation, micro credit activities.