BSS, Rangpur :
Hundreds of rural women have been making their own fortune and leading better life through various income- generating activities, small-scale businesses and enterprises in recent years in Rangpur division.
With their own initiatives, capacities and potentials, many of them have achieved self-reliance through properly utilising local resources setting up appreciable example and saying good-bye to their abject poverty permanently.
The successful rural women, including landless and distressed, divorcees and widows, young girls and housewives, are confident about future following their empowerment and achieved socioeconomic success.
According to Executive Director of Northbengal Institute of Development Studies Dr Syed Samsuzzaman, many rural women lived under miseries due to poverty and their children could not go to schools for education even a decade ago.
“But now, many rural women are engaged in income- generating activities, cottage industries, enterprises and businesses to contribute in building middle income Bangladesh after achieving self-reliance and saying good-bye to abject poverty,” he said.
Head of Programme Coordination of RDRS Bangladesh Monjusree Saha said rural women have achieved success through sewing handloom garments, animal husbandry, poultry, homestead gardening, farming fruits and vegetables.
NGO executive Akhterun Nahar Saki said rural women have changed fortune through setting up smaller cottage industries and enterprises, social forestation, micro-credit activities, VGD and other government programmes.
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer of Rangpur Faridul Haque said hundreds of distressed rural women have achieved self-reliance through the government’s social safety net programmes that created income-generating opportunities for them.
Talking to BSS, a number of successful rural women of different districts in Rangpur division said they have attained self- reliance through their hard endevours and there is no incident of starving anywhere in their villages.
