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.

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.

 “When I got involved with Girl club, my club members convinced my parents to stop marriage. I restarted study and rebuilt my dream. I passed the SSC examination in 2013 and continuing my study. I received an advanced training on Karate and got a chance as a local Karate trainer for my best performance and getting monthly remuneration. ”

Chairperson of Darul Aman Union development committee (USC) Jasmin Begum, 35 years old widow has gained solvency in her family to some extent Cultivating fish.

Jasmin begum lives in Nandra villige of darul Aman Unoin under Damudda Upazila of Shariatpur. Her husband died 7 years ago. After his death jesmin fall in crisis with two daughter and one son. Her husband had left nothing but a dwelling place.