Jhirina Munda, a young woman among the indigenous community in Rajshahi. She lives in Bonapar village of Noagona under greater Rajshahi. Coming from a poor family, alike other poor people Jhirina also has to struggle for attaining education. Many times she faced lot of hindrances to run her ...

Moyna Rani of Satkhira and Hawa Akhter and Samsunnahar of Netrakona recently received “Joyeeta Award” an award provided by the government for only the women for their contribution in women empowerment and socio-economic development. Moyna Rani received this award for her contribution in ...

:: Abu Bakar Siddique, Rajib Bhowmick Farida Parvin (left) distributes seeds of salinity-tolerant paddy, which she developed, to fellow farmers in her village of Shyamnagar in Satkhira. Like her, a local farmer in Chapainawabganj has revived Magurshail (right), a nearly extinct local variety of ...

:: Silvanus Lamin The Khasis in Bangladesh The Khasi is one of the ethnic communities in Bangladesh living in Bangladesh from the time immemorial. The existence, culture, tradition, customs, language of this community is almost in the last line of marginalization. There are several reasons ...

:: Ohidur Rahman from Netrakona (Translated by Silvanus Lamin) :: A hospital for agriculture crops There are hospitals for humans and even for livestock everywhere in the world but a hospital for crops? Have you ever seen or heard a hospital for crops initiated by farmers? If you don’t, you can ...

:: By Parboti Rani Singh (Translated by Silvanus Lamin):: Riku Rani Paul, a young girl of potter community from Netrakona set up a Learning Centre for students of her community who are deprived from the light of education with her own initiative. She herself also has to struggle for education ...

A.B.M Touhidul Alam from Dhaka:: The earth is only planet that has unique natural assets made up of plants, animals, land, water, the atmosphere and human. Together we all form part of the planet’s ecosystems, which means if there is a biodiversity crisis, our health and livelihoods are at risk ...

Parbati Singh from Netrakona:: Education is the backbone Education is the backbone of nation. No nation can prosper without education. Bangladesh has taken different initiatives such as distributing free books, scholarships, stipends, food for education and many other projects keeping this fact ...

Silvanus Lamin:: There are processes of preparing salt from the coastal saline water and its detergents but we hardly know about the making of salt from salty soil. But people of the Sunderbans area have their unique knowledge to make salt from the salty soil. However, it could be claimed that ...

:: Silvanus Lamin:: Climate change is the burning issue of today’s world. It is said that excessive emission of greenhouse gas is the major cause of climate change. However, before discussing about climate change, we need to have idea regarding climate, greenhouse gas and the initiatives taken ...