Housewife Shahanara Akhter of Charpara at Itna in Kishoreganj has become a role model in the village development committee after her success in improving her standard of life through rearing poultry.
She joined Food Security for Ultra Poor programme funded by the European Union in Haor Region in March 2009 after her husband, a non-government primary school teacher, lost his job due to prolonged illness which also restricted him from laborious job.
The mother of three children was one of the 55,000 targeted poor who received Tk 4700 as income generating support from the project run in the district by CARE Bangladesh.
It is one of the four projects under FSUP-H covering 135,000 households in 8 poverty prone districts mostly in northern region of the country.
Shahanara, who has spent her entire savings and sold her husband's inherited land for his treatment, bought 80 local variety ducks with the project money and is now getting 77 eggs every morning from her flock which lay 9 months in a year.
In Haor region, the ducks have free access to water bodies and require minimum investment for food. Shahanara earns Tk 350 per day by selling the eggs in local market.
Her hard work soon upgraded Shahanara's position from a simple member to the president of the village development committee.
She has received basic training in poultry rearing and vaccination and participated in the awareness training on health, education, access to public services, income generating activities, literacy and other social issues.
She herself gets the vaccine from local upazila livestock office and administers those to the ducks.
Shahanara now has attained great confidence and capability in managing her family members which include her three school-going children.
Source : New Age
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