President of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad Ayesha Khanom, among others, at a roundtable on ‘Equal Citizenship of Minority Communities, Women and Marginal People’ organised by coordination institutions of non-government development agencies in Bangladesh at the Jatiya Press Club on Monday.

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President of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad Ayesha Khanom, among others, at a roundtable on 'Equal Citizenship of Minority Communities, Women and Marginal People' organised by coordination institutions of non-government development agencies in Bangladesh at

1,454 rural communities transformed from extreme poverty

City Desk :More than 45,000 poor women-led households of 1,454 backward rural communities in four northern districts have overcome extreme poverty through social, economic, political and women empowerment. Earlier, these women remained trapped in the vicious cycle of generational poverty even a decade ago.However, they have become self-reliant through various income-generating activities (IGAs) through collective efforts and utilising local resources making a transformational change in their lives.This transformational change prompted since 2009 with multidimensional interventions of the seven-year term (2009-2016)...

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