The Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities (SWAPNO) is a social security project of the government that is helping as many as 8,928 poor women in the rural areas of Satkhira and Kurigram districts to realize their dreams and potentials, reports BSS.

The Local Government Division is implementing the five-year project from April 2015 to December 2019, with support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Sustainable Development Goals Fund (SDGF) and BSRM.

“A total of 4,464 widows, divorcees, and wives of disabled men are leading better life than before after completing the first phase of the project,” Training Specialist of the SEAPNO project Kajal Chatterjee told BSS here today.

After successfully completing the first phase, he said, the project has already selected another 4,464 extreme poor women of the same districts for the second phase and they are working for maintenance of the union level government assets.