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Cooking fuel crisis and Women’s suffering in the rainy season
AbdurRazzak, Ghior (Manikganj). Ashma Akhter, a housewife from remote Sodaghata village of GhiorUpazila, Manikganj having a 5-member family is undergoing a lot of hardship in regard to cook food. It is evident to understand her hardships as her husband is ill-being burden to ensure bred for her ...
Continue Reading...Happy with dignified life
By Touhidul Alam When Abdul Mattaleb (42) ventured into vermicomposting in 2012, nobody imagined that this small initiative would change his life one day. Hard work and a good guidance can make all the differences in life, the case of Abdul Mattaleb, a farmer from Valuatoli village of ...
Continue Reading...A Self-confident and determined student Fatema Parveen
By Biswajit Mondal Fatema Parveen. She is poor but meritorious student. Her parents lead their life collecting resources from the Sunderban. They are known as ‘Bonojibi’ to others. Fatema has a strong will to continue study and be enlightened with knowledge and wisdom. But the poverty of her ...
Continue Reading...Unlocking the potential
By Satta Ranjan Saha and Nitya Sarker Youth are energetic! If the wish they can transform a lag behind village and society into the enlightened and advanced village and society. The youth can eradicate illiteracy, exile the superstition and wipe out the darkness of drug addiction in the ...
Continue Reading...The Khasis in Bangladesh and their struggle to maintain livelihood
Silvanus Lamin Introduction There are 45 ethnic communities’ namely indigenous people living in Bangladesh. Khasi is one of the indigenous communities in Bangladesh. The community has been living in Sylhet region (Sylhet, Moulvibazar Habigonj), particularly hilly and mountainous region of ...
Continue Reading...Wetland areas need to be preserved
Ismot Jerin from Rajshashi The bay flows through the heart of Godagari Upazila, Gogram Union Parishad of Varendra. Everyone calls it Gogram Bay. The farmers grow their crops from the water of this Bay; the fishermen catch delicious local fish. A variety of aquatic life form flourishes of the ...
Continue Reading...Cyclone Shelters should be people friendly
Mofijur Rahman from Satkhira Satkhira is situated near Sundarban in southern coastal region of Bangladesh. The area is known for its frequent natural disaster, salinity, waterlogging, flood and cyclone. It is also known for the hard work of the people to uphold their existence coping with ...
Continue Reading...Nayema Begum goes door to door to make environment friendly oven
Anita Barman from Rajshashi Women play a very important role to maintain a balance between technology and the environment. They do lots of things using their knowledge which makes the village life easier using simple and effective techniques. One of those things is to make oven out of mud with ...
Continue Reading...Food preserving techniques of rural women
Parboti Rani Singh from Netrokona Since ancient times when women invented agriculture based civilization they also produced, preserved and made food for us. They are still continuing that legacy by using their indigenous knowledge and their experience. By doing these things women created a ...
Continue Reading...People of 8 villages in Netrakona oath to protect birds
Md. Alamagir from Netrakona The people of 8 villages namely Shaldigha, Jalalpur, Atkapara, Basaura, Viwpara, Shimulkandi, Khalimapur and Narayandohor in Atpara sub-district of Netrakona vowed to protect birds in their respective areas. The villagers of these 8 villages being organized recently ...
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