BSS, Rangpur :
The rural women have been achieving continuous macroeconomic success in alleviating poverty to improve life standard accelerating their development and empowerment in recent years.
As a result of the success achieved by thousands of the rural women through various income generation activities under GO-NGO assistance during the past six years, the seasonal curse of ‘monga’ has disappeared permanently from Rangpur region.
Head of Programme of RDRS Bangladesh, a reputed NGO, Manjushree Saha said economic condition of rural women has improved because of their engagements with income generating activities under effective GO-NGO-private initiatives.
Thousands of distressed women have achieved self- reliance through small-scale enterprises, trades, cottage industries, sewing, embroidering, micro-credit, homestead farming, pisciculture, rearing poultry birds, animals and participatory social forestation.
These women have been living with their children in economic solvency though they lived in utter miseries, especially during the seasonal lean periods, due to abject poverty even a decade ago, in Rangpur region.
The easy-term and interest-free loans, training for unemployed girls and women on various trades for self-employment, assistance of the government, NGOs, donor agencies, development partners played important roles in eradicating extreme poverty, she said.
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer of Rangpur Abdus Salam said the government implements comprehensive social safety-net programmes like various allowances, employment generation, VGF, VGD, TR and FFW resulting to the success.
“As a result of successful implementation of these programmes, the poor, including distressed rural women, never experienced any bite of extreme poverty following improvement of their economic condition largely during the past six years,” he added.
Earlier in the pasts, the seasonal ‘monga’ caused miseries to the hard core poor, mostly distressed rural women and children and the present government has still been continuing huge programmes to change fate of the people even after driving away ‘monga’, he said.
Chilmari upazila chairman and valiant freedom fighter Shawkat Ali Sarker, Bir Bikram, said children of the rural women are now going to schools following their economic well-being though many of them lived under abject poverty even a decade ago.
He said none can now find adolescents, girls and children as domestic helps in greater Rangpur, including remote char areas, where people had to starve during the seasonal lean periods in the past, because of their improved socioeconomic conditions.
The rural women have been achieving continuous macroeconomic success in alleviating poverty to improve life standard accelerating their development and empowerment in recent years.
As a result of the success achieved by thousands of the rural women through various income generation activities under GO-NGO assistance during the past six years, the seasonal curse of ‘monga’ has disappeared permanently from Rangpur region.
Head of Programme of RDRS Bangladesh, a reputed NGO, Manjushree Saha said economic condition of rural women has improved because of their engagements with income generating activities under effective GO-NGO-private initiatives.
Thousands of distressed women have achieved self- reliance through small-scale enterprises, trades, cottage industries, sewing, embroidering, micro-credit, homestead farming, pisciculture, rearing poultry birds, animals and participatory social forestation.
These women have been living with their children in economic solvency though they lived in utter miseries, especially during the seasonal lean periods, due to abject poverty even a decade ago, in Rangpur region.
The easy-term and interest-free loans, training for unemployed girls and women on various trades for self-employment, assistance of the government, NGOs, donor agencies, development partners played important roles in eradicating extreme poverty, she said.
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer of Rangpur Abdus Salam said the government implements comprehensive social safety-net programmes like various allowances, employment generation, VGF, VGD, TR and FFW resulting to the success.
“As a result of successful implementation of these programmes, the poor, including distressed rural women, never experienced any bite of extreme poverty following improvement of their economic condition largely during the past six years,” he added.
Earlier in the pasts, the seasonal ‘monga’ caused miseries to the hard core poor, mostly distressed rural women and children and the present government has still been continuing huge programmes to change fate of the people even after driving away ‘monga’, he said.
Chilmari upazila chairman and valiant freedom fighter Shawkat Ali Sarker, Bir Bikram, said children of the rural women are now going to schools following their economic well-being though many of them lived under abject poverty even a decade ago.
He said none can now find adolescents, girls and children as domestic helps in greater Rangpur, including remote char areas, where people had to starve during the seasonal lean periods in the past, because of their improved socioeconomic conditions.
