About 10,000 poor women in 12 upazilas of Sylhet district have achieved economic self-reliance through various income generating activities during the last ten years.
The women and girls with their own initiatives have taken training on various income generation programme from local Women Affairs Department, Youth Development Department and Livestock Department, sources concerned said.
These departments have also extended credit facilities to the women to help them undertaking different projects side by side with creating marketing facilities of their products, the sources added.
They have learned sewing, embroidery, handloom garments, setting up cottage industries, animal husbandry, rearing cows, goats and poultry birds, homestead gardening, farming of vegetables, fruits, spices, fish and agricultural activities.
As a result of relentless efforts of those women and girls, the socioeconomic condition of the rural people who lived in utter miseries even a few years back have changed their life style significantly along with their empowerment in the families and society as a whole.
They have also brought themselves 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 the Vision 2021 a success.
