Report on Visiting Disadvantaged

Families
Participant’s name
Md. Jannatun Naim.
Roll:136
70th FTC, Postal Academy Rajshahi
1 Objectives

This Report has been prepared with a view to realizing the life of poverty-stricken people,
identifying some major problems, motivating them, improve awareness, informing Upazila
Nirbahi Officer of the condition and ultimately trying to solve this problem.

The objectives of the work under this Module includes

• To identify one disadvantaged family from the study area (poorest of the poor);

• To identify and prioritize their social problems;

• To solve some prioritized problems instantly;

• To motivate and improve awareness of self-defense;

• To identify activities taken under Social Safety Net Programmes &

• Attempting to solve some of the problems, if not all.

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2 Details of the Disadvantaged Family:

Name : Chayna Begum

Age : 50 years

Spouse Name : Late Nurul Islam

National ID : She could not produce the NID as she was outside home

Children : Two daughters.

Address : Village: Aishrabari, Union: Bangra, upazila: kalihati, District: Tangail.

3 Chayna Begum’s life

Chayna Begum is a poverty-stricken woman living in remote Aishrabari village of kalihati

Upazila under the district Tangail. Her age is around 50 years. She is currently a widowed

Figure 1: Interview with Chayna Begum

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woman who gets no one to support her. Her two daughters are married and their husbands
support her at times which is very insufficient for her livelihood. She is currently living in a
room of one of her relatives temporarily. Last year, she was successful in goat rearing and
earned some money. But, currently, she has no permanent work to do and she works in
different houses as a housemaid. She expresses her will to rear cattle and some support so that
she has a permanent living place.

4 Problems Identified:

1. Financial problems. Her monthly income is barely 1500 to 2000 BDT which is
insufficient to provide herself with food and clothing.
2. She sometimes passes her days without meals.
3. She does not have a permanent dwelling place.
4. She is out of normal life.

5 Challenges to solve the problems:

 Poverty is a vicious cycle and it is not possible to eradicate it in a very short period.
 Lack of education is a major challenge.
 Local people don’t want to lend her money.
 She does not have social security as she has no family now.

6 Initiatives

To ensure her livelihood, an application was submitted to the Upazila Nirbahi Officer urging
for her inclusion in the social safety net program as well as providing her with some funds so
that she can rear cattle for her livelihood.

7 Recommendations

Chayna Begum is interested in cattle rearing(mainly cow) for her earning. She should be
brought under some social safety net program from the Department of Social Welfare, but the
urgent need of her is to have some funding for buying cattle(cow and calf) and a home under
‘Ashrayan Prakalpa.’

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8 Attachments:

1. Copy of the application submitted to UNO, Kalihati Upazilla