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Manikganj Rural Development Service
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Project Goal:
"To alleviate poverty through Sustainable transformational holistic development.

Project Objectives

  1. Community Cooperation: To increase cooperation and reduce vulnerability amongst participants, including the ability to develop leadership and sustainable social structures
  2. Literacy: To increase the rate of literacy and numeracy amongst participants
  3. Financial Security: To significantly improve the savings and income-generating capacity of group members.
  4. Health and Nutrition: To substantially improve the health of the community
  5. Social and Environmental Issues: To increase the community's understanding of important social and environmental issue.
 
Jusna PDF Print E-mail
Written by Shamim Khan   
Tuesday, 13 May 2008 14:00

Jusna and her sewing machineSuccess Story: The name of the village is Sunbanda under Manikgonj District. The Villag is located beside Kaligonja river and most of the time it’s affected by River. Farmers of the village are not able to grow good crops just because of that River. Most of the people of that village are uneducated and unemployed. Jusna is living in the village. She is 28 and married she has two sons and a daughter. Her husband name is Bareque. He is a by-cycle repairman. He earned 80 taka per day. But it was not enough for their family. So their children can not get enough food. Their two sons and a daughter are going to school but its relay difficult for them to send their child to the school because they were unable to give the school fee and others materials cost. They were very unhappy.  

One day a symbiosis Worker met with Jusna in her house and we invited her to join our functional education group after listening about her life stly from her. Later Jusna discuss this with her husband and joined to one of our our functional education group. After eight month she completed her functional education with good result.

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Monowara PDF Print E-mail
Written by Shamim Khan   
Monday, 28 January 2008 03:21

Story:
Sanbanda village is under of makinganj district. This village is going beside Kaligonga river and most of the time it’s affected by river. Farmers of the village are not able to grow good foods just because of that river. Most of the people of that village are uneducated and unemployed. Monowara is living in that village .she is 32 and married she have two sons and a daughter. Her husband is Raza mia. he is a boat driver. Their two sons are going to school but its really difficult for them to send their child to the school because they were unable to give the school fee and others materials cost.

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