Bashundhara Shuvosangho’s Birganj upazila unit has distributed vegetable saplings and seeds among underprivileged ethnic minority families in Dinajpur’s Birganj to improve their nutrition and promote self-reliance.
On Friday morning, 30 families from the indigenous community in East Jagdal of Ward No 9 under Birganj Municipality received seeds and saplings of various vegetables, including bottle gourd, yardlong bean, hyacinth bean, papaya, amaranth, spinach, and sweet pumpkin.
The initiative is aimed at encouraging the families to grow vegetables in the vacant spaces around their homes.
The joy was visible on the face of 35-year-old Basanti Soren as she received the saplings. “There’s a lot of empty space around our house. Now we can grow vegetables there. This will greatly benefit our household,” she said.
Similarly, Sabuj Murmu, 30, said, “These vegetable saplings and seeds are a blessing for poor families like ours. Not only will they meet our nutritional needs, but if we get a good harvest, we can also sell the surplus and earn some money.”
Present at the distribution event were Sohel Ahmed, adviser of Shuvosangho Birganj upazila unit president and Birganj correspondent of Kaler Kantho Farhad Hossain, executive members Rinki Khatun, Minoti Hasda, Jannatul Ferdous Akhi, among others.
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