“My father brought us to Dhaka for a better livelihood when I was not even four. Since then we have been living in Chalantika Slum. He had a hard time finding a good job and feeding our family. He started working as a day laborer but his earning was not good enough to send two of my sisters to school. Because it was tough to provide the family members with a proper meal”, said Yesmin, an eleven-year-old girl of Chalantika slum area in Dhaka. This is the story of thousands of

In Bangladesh, with urban population growth, the number of slums and the people who dwell in them are rapidly increasing. More than half of the slum inhabitants are children, nearly 15 million boys, and girls. Tanzila Jahan Jeba is one of them. “My name is Tanzila Jahan Jeba. I am 10 years old. I live in Krishtopur, Dokkhin para with my family. I have two brothers. My elder brother attends class seven at the madrasa and younger brother is in class one. My father Jalal Miah is

“A few years ago, I couldn’t talk properly with the village people because of coyness. On that occasion, the village people didn’t know the name of Bedena Begum. All of them knew me as the wife of Monjurul Haque,” Bedena Begum the lady in her late forties was recalling the situation of her early life. Bedena Begum is a successful volunteer community health worker but her expedition to survive people from diseases wasn’t harmonious. In our society, especially in rural areas, p

I met Sobika, a young Rohingya lady aged 21. She witnessed a horrific incident in her life during her long, struggling journey to safety in Bangladesh. She lost almost everything in her life during the gruesome exodus. “I was living peacefully in Myanmar with my family. I have had my husband, father, mother, brother and my relatives in Myanmar. Suddenly the military entered into our village and started shooting at us. Everyone was running in different directions. I was runnin