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 I am Masuma Akter and I am 24 years old. I am married and living
separately from my husband as my husband left me and
living with another wife. I used to work in the
garment factory, but I had to give up working due to
pregnancy and new born child. My husband left me
after taking large business loan with interest from
my relative. I had to rejoin in the garment factory
keeping my new born child with my mother. I faced
problem in the garment factory as I had to work in
the garment factory from 8.00 am in the morning to
till 8.00 pm at night.
I heard about Nari Jibon organization from a field worker of Nari
Jibon who also was a garment worker. Nari Jibon
provides skills to women. I was illiterate and
interested to take tailoring course because I wanted
to run home based tailoring business as I needed to
give more time with my child. I started to take
skill from Nari Jibon during off days from my
garment factory. But it was difficult to me to
continue working garment job and taking class at
Nari Jibon. I told my situation and business plan to
the Nari Jibon authority.
Nari Jibon selected her to learn as LPC (work-study)
student with stipend. She gave up working in the
garment factory as she got a great scope to learn
skill at Nari Jibon office. She used to receive 3700
taka every month beside her tailoring classes at
Nari Jibon. She completed Bengali and Tailoring
courses. After completing her courses she was able
to read and write in Bengali and she could make 32
tailoring items.
Her future plan was to start home based tailoring business but she
was unable to implement her future plan. After she
completed her courses, Nari Jibon gave her a new
sewing machine and 5000 taka to implement her
written plan. She started home based tailoring
business for three months successfully. She had some
money problem, which was created by her husband
before and she had to repay some loan of her
husband. She failed to continue her tailoring
business.
She took job in the garment factory again. Before
she worked in the garment factory as an illiterate
girl, but after taking Bangla classes from Nari
Jibon she became literate and took a better job. At
present she can earn about 4000 taka (2600 + over
time) from the garment factory and still now she is
also running her home based tailoring business and
she can earn 500 taka to 800 taka per month. She
collects order and works at night after returning
from her garment factory and during off days. Now
she is thinking that she will work in the garment
factory and she will save a good amount of money. In
future she will set up a tailoring business adjacent
her house as she wants to give more time to her son.
She is thinking as she is known to many people as an
expert tailoring master that she will succeed in
future.
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