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Toilet brings fortune to Aklima (WatSan) |
Aklima Begum lives at Mollikpur village. Mollikpur
is under Fatapur union under upazila Nachol in Chapainowabgonj district.
Her father died years before. She has mother but she lives separately.
They are three sisters. Eldest sister is married and she has two
kids. But her sister
was divorced due to inability to meet the dowry
claimed by her husband and since then she has been living with Aklima
begum as a dependent. Aklima’s sister is now making a small
income as a domestic worker. Basically Aklima is only the earning
member of the family. They have only homestead but no cultivable
land. They are struggling hard for survival. Initially they were
supported by the villagers. In this perspective about 4/5 years
ago, Aklima borrowed 2000 taka without from the neighbour Mrinal
Kanti with no security against the amount. They agreed that Aklima
will pay the interest free loan amount in monthly instalments. She
started selling clay made toys, dolls in the local market. By selling
these, Aklima maintains her family and pays installment of the loan.
At that time, she was allotted a space jointly by the Union Parishad
Chairman and Mollikpur Bazar Committee for selling betel leaf and
cigarette. Day by day she started earning more money, her income
becomes 70/80 taka per day. Immediate after that VERC Nachol office
established a public toilet as project plan in
Mollikpur bus stand with the participation of Bazar Committee of
Mollikpur. Union Parished and Bazar Committee took a decision to
give this public toilet to Aklima. As a result, on 31 May, 2007,
this public toilet was leased out to Aklima for one year. As per
agreement she is supposed to pay 1000 taka per month. Aklima looks
after the toilet, her niece cooperates her in this work. Moreover,
she arranged a petty shop of betel leaf in the same market. Thus
she oversees two types of work at the same time. At present she
earns in average 60/70 taka in a day. Especially she earns more
money in a market day. Now she is totally self solvent, she leads
her family from the income of public toilet and betel leaf shop.
She does not feel any problem due to local people’s cooperation.
Aklima is very grateful to VERC, Mollikpur Bazar committee and union
parished for giving the opportunity to engage with public toilet.
This public toilet brings a good fortune for her. She dreams an
economic solvency with her family members.
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Mr. Bashir Ahmed
had been living with his parents, 4 brothers and 3 sisters lived in
a village under Patuakhali district twenty years back. He came from
Patuakhali to Sitakundu with his uncle for survival when he was only
12 years old. He left Patuakhali because of expiry of his only income
earning father suddenly died and all of his family members started
starving for days after days. Mr. Ahmed went to a school and studied
up to class-V but failed to continue because of monetary crisis in
the family. Download
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ASEH guiding principle well taken by Daldali UP (WatSan)
Mr. Muhammad Alauddin is the present elected Chairman of Daldali union
council, he had been in the same position for the last 3 terms concurrently.
According to the Chairman - “development is possible where there
is good governance prevalent in a society. Good governance is an absolute
necessity to develop a country or a nation”. Download
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UNO of Lalmohon Upazila awards UP member on achieving latrine
coverage of Ward (WatSan).
Mr. Nischinta Kumar Podder, Upazila Nirbahee Officer (UNO) of Lalmohon
upazila under Bhola district announced in the monthly meeting of January
‘06 in Lord Hardinge Union Sanitation Task Force that on behalf
of the Lalmohon Upazila Sanitation Taskforce, he would like to present
mobile phone as award to those UP members, who will achieve 100% latrine
coverage of ward within March 2006. Mr. Podder has given the same
declaration for the UP members of Kalma and Farasgonj unions. This
announcement added some encouragement and as a result all the UP members
got actively involved in the process to achieve 100% latrine coverage
status of wards as quick as possible within March 2006. Download
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Imran's Participation in the art exhibition (Succeed)
Md. Imran Hossain (13), Son of Md. Sultan Hossain & Parveen Akhter
is a child with disability. He lives with his parents in Carigram
under Pathalia union Savar, Dhaka. He has special needs for hearing
& speech by born. Imran has no academic background. He recently
joined with Korotoa Child to Child group of VERC SUCCEED project.
Imran can draw pictures since his childhood and for the first time;
he participated in the drawing competition organized by VERC on ‘International
Disability Day’. Download
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Case Study (IBIG)
Kanon Akter a women of 40 years old, lives in Dhamrai upazila under
Dhaka district. She completed her education up to class VI. She belongs
to an ultra poor family and got married with an unemployed man at
a very early age. They could not maintain their family by meeting
a minimum basic demand. Then her husband started working as a day-labor,
however it is difficult for him to find this kind of job regularly.
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Konika rescued from early marriage
Mis. Konika Akter is a 14 years girl and she is living at Jamsa Gayan
bari village of Shimulia Union under Shibalaya Upazila of Manikgonj
district. She is studying in class seven. Her father Md. Abdul Jalil
arranged her marriage with Md. Panu, son of Late Md. Forman Ali of
same union on 27 July 2005. Her father also completed all necessary
arrangement for registering the marriage. Konika’s Uncle Mr.
Abdur Rashid by the by hard the news and asked Mr. Jalil to stop the
illegal marriage. Download
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