A non-profit named Abalamban, with support from Bashundhara Group, inaugurated a three-month sewing training course at its conference room in Gaibandha town on Friday.
Twenty poor women, including eight young ladies from the marginalised Harijan and Rabidas communities, are taking part in the training. Training courses were also launched at Gobindaganj and Palashbari upazilas of the district, each enrolling twenty women participants.
Abalamban Chief Executive Prabir Chakrabarty, Shuvosangho’s Central Committee Director Zakaria Zaman, Shuvosangho Gaibandha district unit’s former president Humayun Ahmed Biplob, and the unit’s current General Secretary Ahsania Tasnim Snigdha were present.
Also present were local politician Golam Rabbani Musa, cultural figure Shirin Akter, trainer Rozina Akter and trainee Preeti Bashfor.
Prabir Chakrabarty said, “The biggest success has been being able to involve Dalit and marginalised women in this programme. We believe that if women get opportunities to earn on their own, it brings positive changes both in the family and in society.”
Shuvosangho district unit General Secretary Ahsania Snigdha said, “After this training, some women will open small shops of their own, some will stand beside their families as a source of income, while others will change the long-standing uncertainty in their lives. Through the small stitches of needle and thread, colourful patterns of new possibilities are emerging in the lives of many women in Gaibandha.”
Bd-pratidin English/Lutful Hoque
