Symbiosis International

Success Story: Chamily Akther living in a Village name Barabuchna Dist. Tangail. She is from a poor family. She got married while she was child because her parents don’t have enough earning source to feed all the family members. Her husband was poor to. His income was not sufficient too to support the family.  

One day one of our staff meets with her and she shared all her problems with our staff. After listening everything from her we suggested her to join into our functional education group. We also discussed with her regarding our activities. After all the discussion she agreed to join into our functional education group. After a period of time she received sewing training from our vocational training activity. She found that this training can change her life. She bought a sewing machine after this training and start receiving order from the community members. Now her present income is abut tk 200 to tk 250 per day.

She is now happy with her present profession. She also agreed that after join into symbiosis group she have chance to learn many things such as responsibility towards environment, social justice, women’s right. She is thankful to symbiosis for this great support.

Analysis: This story shows that a significant change has happened in Chamily Akther. She feels empowered by having learnt to Functional Education and through the success of his Functional Education activities. Chamily families are happy with the changes that have occurred in her life. She is part of seems to be running well because it is requiring only minimal support from Symbiosis.