“Can you believe that a newly married couple is living separately because of poverty? Yes, I’m the specimen of this incident. My husband Md. Tara Mia and I got married in 2007. Soon after our marriage, we had to start living separately because my husband couldn’t manage the household expense”, said Rina Begum, a member of Charakona Mohila Unayan Somittee. Tara Mia husband of Rina Begum used to work in a rice mill as a day laborer. His daily income was not good enough to run a

“I had a deep interest in education from my childhood but my parents were so poor that they couldn’t afford the educational expenses. I had completed my fourth standard from a village school. After that I quit school because of poverty”, said Jahanara Begum, a 32-year-old mother of two children. Jahanara Begum is the only daughter of her parents. Her father Abdur Rashid is a fisherman and mother Bibi Ayesha is a housewife. Her parents are illiterate. They are from Bhola dis

Dil Mohammed a 62-year-old Rohingya refugee lost almost everything in his life when he fled Myanmar. Fortunately, he ended up in Bangladesh with all of his family members. His wife Sura Begum is a housewife. He got four children, two sons, and two daughters. “I’m passing a hard time living in this camp as my children are sick. I can’t afford them proper treatment and medications. I don’t have enough money to treat them. I have no job, no business at all”, said Dil Mohammed ha