‘Asrayan Prakalpa’, one of the government’s most successful projects, has ensured prosperity of some 2,160 landless and homeless families here giving them new life through providing shelters and livelihoods, reports BSS.
The project beneficiary river eroded families have been leading meaningful life now after getting shelter, address and assistance to become self-reliant alleviating poverty through various income generation activities.
The rehabilitated people are living happily with peace at own homes, eating meals thrice daily, engaged in income-generation activities and their children going to schools to become worthy citizens for meaningful life in future.
The local government departments have been implementing comprehensive social safety-net activities under the project for mainstreaming the river-eroded rehabilitated people making them self- reliant through providing support, training and assistance.
The adult male-female members of the rehabilitated families are getting training for increasing awareness on various issues, expertise and human resources development to enable them becoming engaged with income-generation works.
According to officials, construction of 249 tin-shed barrack houses under 22 projects out of targeted 35 have been completed and 2,160 river-eroded floating families rehabilitated in all eight upazilas in the district since 1997.
Like other project beneficiaries, 90 rehabilitated families at Purbo Kochua-1 Asrayan Prokalpo in Nohali union of Gangachara upazila have set up a glaring example in changing fortune                       through income generation activities and achieving self- reliance.
Sources at Gangachara Upazila Cooperatives Office said all of the beneficiary families have been achieving continuous success following proper use of the training, government assistance and credit management under official supervision.
Talking to BSS, rehabilitated Nazrul Islam and his wife Bulbuli Begum said they got back new life and started dreaming of brighter future for children getting the easy-term microcredit under the government’s comprehensive social safety-net programmes.
“We are making profits to raise our capital through farm activities, small- scale business, animal husbandry, poultry, tree plantation, vegetables and fruit farming at homesteads,” said Alef Uddin and his wife Feroza Khatun.
The couple could not control emotion while narrating their miserable days passed for years amid uncertainty with their son Sirajul and daughter Arjuma Khatun on the lands of others and flood control embankments in the pasts.