“ I want to be a good karate instructor to make girl as self dependant.”
Mishti Akter, a child of very needy family. Her family didn’t want to continue her study. When she was class 9, she was bound to stop study due to eve teasing and poverty. Her parents had attempted to arrange her marriage. In the mean time she got involved with ‘Girl club’ initiated by Girl Power Project GPP, SDS.
Farmer Mst. Rahima is the inhabitant of Kachikata union under Bhedorgonj Upazila of Shariatpur district. Before her marriage she has completed SSC. After her marriage, she cultivated her husband’s land .Because her husband is working in abroad. She cultivated potato, chili, sweet gourd, bottle gourd, and ash gourd, red amaranth and Indian spinach. Yield of her land is more than others. So farmers came to her land to see the cultivation procedure and yield. She describes her production technique to the interested farmers. This year PSAT (Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Technology for Climatic Vulnerable Char-Dwellers) Project personnel went to her village for identification of Lead farmer. Most of the farmers of that village said she is the most qualified person as a lead farmer. After joining as a lead farmer of PSAT project, she has got more climates adaptive modern agriculture related ICT based training. Now she is trained lead farmer. She is arranged and facilitated season based court yard session of that village.
Hossain Bepary, a farmer changed his luck by cultivatig poison free high value vegitables through safe method. He lives at Char Chapila village of Kachikata Union under the Bhederganj Upazila inof Shariatpur district. Though he cultivates in other's land but he is self-relient now. More over he is now an inspiration for others farmer to cultivate high value vegitables in safe method.
Even 3 years back, Hossain Bepary was unemployed. That’s time Hossain found his life difficult to survive. He decided to do something and its continuation, he took some money in credit and cultivated cucumber in a small piece of land. Due to apply pesricides and chamical fertitizers at a large scale in unplanned way and not getting proper price in market, he faces great loss. As a result he couldn't pay the credit amount even he failed to collect the money for land tax. So he fall in great danger to maintain his family. Also he bound to stop sending his child to go to school too.
