Rangpur rural women find way to become solvent
Our Correspondent | Friday, 8 April 2011
Our Correspondent
RANGPUR, Apr 7: The unemployed rural women in Rangpur district have set a rare example of becoming self-reliant by sewing handloom readymade garments. Different government and non-government organisations (NGOs) have extended their support to them. According to sources, by sewing handloom garments and marketing the products hundreds of poor women in the district have become financially solvent and are making financial contribution to their families. The government organisations such as the Women Affairs Department, the Social Service Department and reputed NGO's like RDRS, ASA, BRAC are playing leading roles in providing them with training sewing machines and cash credits. These female sewers mainly produce garments like blouse, petticoat, semiz, kamiz, salwar, scurf, baby wears, shirt, pant, fotua and caps. Saleha Begum (25) at Nazirdah village under Kawnia Upazila in Rangpur district told the FE that once they struggled a lot with her husband's limited income. Then she took training of sewing readymade garments. After receiving training for 3 months she started sewing handloom garments and began to earn good money. Thus she found the way to contribute to her family income. She now earns Tk 130 to 150 per day from sewing baby wears. Now she is living happily with her family, she added. Fishermen in distress The fishermen in Rangpur and its adjacent districts are passing hard days as an acute shortage of food and lack of employment have been prevailing for the last couple of months in the districts. According to sources the poor fishermen have been leading a miserable life of hardship on poverty for the last couple of months with little food and no work. Sources said, want of work takes a serious turn as the fishermen have no resources to purchase food. Fishing as a profession suffers from seasonal unemployment with the shrinkage of fish resources. The fishermen are the worst victims of such seasonal unemployment as they cannot switch from their profession to another. Hasanur Rahman (40), a fisherman at Gangachara Upazila in Rangpur district told the FE that the government seems to be indifferent to the deplorable condition of the fisherman. He urged the government to take necessary steps for their survival. 10,705 chickens culled The livestock authorities in Lalbagh area of College Road in Rangpur district town culled 10,705 chickens Tuesday night as 1,708 chickens of the farm died of the Avian influenza virus over the last five days. Rangpur livestock officer Azharul Islam said, "We found some samples of the dead chickens of Avian influenza positive in the tests done at the district veterinary laboratory Monday." "Later, we sent the samples to the Field Diseases Investigation Laboratory (FDIL) in Joypurhat, and the tests confirmed that the chickens were infected with the disease." Tuesday, the chief veterinary officer at the Department of Livestock Services at Farmgate in Dhaka ordered for culling of the chickens from the farm.
RANGPUR, Apr 7: The unemployed rural women in Rangpur district have set a rare example of becoming self-reliant by sewing handloom readymade garments. Different government and non-government organisations (NGOs) have extended their support to them. According to sources, by sewing handloom garments and marketing the products hundreds of poor women in the district have become financially solvent and are making financial contribution to their families. The government organisations such as the Women Affairs Department, the Social Service Department and reputed NGO's like RDRS, ASA, BRAC are playing leading roles in providing them with training sewing machines and cash credits. These female sewers mainly produce garments like blouse, petticoat, semiz, kamiz, salwar, scurf, baby wears, shirt, pant, fotua and caps. Saleha Begum (25) at Nazirdah village under Kawnia Upazila in Rangpur district told the FE that once they struggled a lot with her husband's limited income. Then she took training of sewing readymade garments. After receiving training for 3 months she started sewing handloom garments and began to earn good money. Thus she found the way to contribute to her family income. She now earns Tk 130 to 150 per day from sewing baby wears. Now she is living happily with her family, she added. Fishermen in distress The fishermen in Rangpur and its adjacent districts are passing hard days as an acute shortage of food and lack of employment have been prevailing for the last couple of months in the districts. According to sources the poor fishermen have been leading a miserable life of hardship on poverty for the last couple of months with little food and no work. Sources said, want of work takes a serious turn as the fishermen have no resources to purchase food. Fishing as a profession suffers from seasonal unemployment with the shrinkage of fish resources. The fishermen are the worst victims of such seasonal unemployment as they cannot switch from their profession to another. Hasanur Rahman (40), a fisherman at Gangachara Upazila in Rangpur district told the FE that the government seems to be indifferent to the deplorable condition of the fisherman. He urged the government to take necessary steps for their survival. 10,705 chickens culled The livestock authorities in Lalbagh area of College Road in Rangpur district town culled 10,705 chickens Tuesday night as 1,708 chickens of the farm died of the Avian influenza virus over the last five days. Rangpur livestock officer Azharul Islam said, "We found some samples of the dead chickens of Avian influenza positive in the tests done at the district veterinary laboratory Monday." "Later, we sent the samples to the Field Diseases Investigation Laboratory (FDIL) in Joypurhat, and the tests confirmed that the chickens were infected with the disease." Tuesday, the chief veterinary officer at the Department of Livestock Services at Farmgate in Dhaka ordered for culling of the chickens from the farm.