Rahima Begum, wife of late Suheal Miah, of village Thanagoan under Usmanpur Union of Balagong Upazila of Sylhet district. She is a VGD card holder of the cycle 2009-2010 and her card number is 30. She had all the positive factors to have a VGD card and accordingly she got it. Her family consists of 6 members. She has 1 son and 4 daughters. Before her VGD membership she would lead a hard life. She did not have 3 meals in a day always. She considered 30 Kgs food grain assistance per month for 2 years is a great support and side by side she determined to do some thing for sustainability for her future life.
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| An Industrious women working his vegetable garden |
On her 1st day of orientation session she heard from the trainer about the objective of the VGD programme which further emboldened her determination to sustain in life. She was very particulars in attending training sessions and tried to apprehend the messages of the sessions. On receiving Life skills training she started to apply them according to scope. Besides using the learning in her day to day life and she also becomes protestant against the social injustices.
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| An Industrious women working his vegetable garden |
She received IGA training on vegetable gardening. Afterwards of the training she started to cultivate different seasonal vegetable. This year she has earned tk. 7000 by selling different types of vegetable. She made her 1st capital worth tk. 500 by selling pea seeds. Capitalizing the amount Rahima decided to develop an integrated farming around her homestead gradually through invest-return system. She used to cultivate vegetable even before he was VGD member. After skills development training, she with renewed zeal involved herself with different agricultural productivity. Being imbued with tree planting motivation she has planted different types of plants around her homestead.
She has a pond of 10 decimals in size. In the pond she dropped different types of fingerling. This year she sold fish from the pond worth tk.3000.
She is rearing poultry birds. She has at present 6 hens and 3 ducks. These lays 3-4 eggs every day. She has 5 goats. All the agricultural assets and output has made her self- reliant.
She expressed her feeling in this way-“ The VGD programme has given me new life. I am naturally industrious. Skill development training and motivation has inspired me very much. I am disseminating the good messages of the programme to my neighbors. I shall remain owe to the programme for ever.”
