Narsingdi Correspondent :
About 20,000 under privileged women and girls in the six upazila of Narsingdi district have achieved economic self-reliance through various income generation activities during the last ten years.
The women and girls with their own initiatives have taken training on various income generation programme from the local Women Affairs Department, Youth Development Department and livestock Department and they have brought revolutionary changes to their life, getting assistance of loans from the department for their small projects side by side creating marketing facilities of their production.
Most of them have achieved success through sewing handloom garments, setting, up cottage industries, animal husbandry, rearing cows, goats and poultry birds, homestead gardening , farming of vegetables, fruits, spices, fish and agri activities.
As a result of relentless efforts of the women and girls, the socio-economic condition of the rural women who lived in utter miseries even few years back has changed significantly along with their empowerment in the families and society as a whole.
They have been bringing them under complete sanitation coverage.
After achieving economic self-reliance the poor women are now hoping to contribute their maximum efforts in building poverty and hunger free Bangladesh by making vision 2021 successful.
