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Microfinance and climate change- voices from marginalized women in coastal belt

Microfinance and climate change- voices from marginalized women in coastal belt

January 9, 2010 1 Comment

Beneficiaries of micro-credit

Golachipa, Bangladesh: Golachipa, a place of offshore valley in Patuakhali of Bangladesh. Disasters, like cyclone, floods, river erosions, tidal surges, are common almost every year. The people of this coastal area survived with a lot of struggle after the devastating floods in 1970, 1988, 1998 respectively. Finally devastating cyclone SIDR of 15th November hit the people of this belt. Within two to three hours devastation, thousands of people died and millions of people lost everything they had. The remote islands of this belt turned in to a valley of death immediate after Cyclone SIDR.

Job scheme aids 4.30 lakh Bangladeshi poor

November 29, 2009 No Comments

rural-women-bangladeshOver 4.30 lakh people in Bangladesh, including more than one lakh women, have gained job opportunities for Tk 100 a day each under an employment project for the extreme poor, which was launched throughout the country in October.

Some 1,20,000 people initially became beneficiaries of the project that targets hardcore poor, including those in monga-prone, river erosion and Char and Haor regions across the country.

The present government’s ‘Employment Project for the Extreme Poor’, is a continuation of a scheme under the ‘100-Day Job Creation Programme’ initiated by the previous interim government,

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Indian couple wins Alternative Nobel Prize

October 1, 2008 2 Comments

Krishnammal Jagannathan

Krishnammal Jagannathan

Krishnammal Jagannathan, 82, and her husband, Sankaralingam, 95, have spent a lifetime fighting for the rights of the deprived, especially the Dalits, the former untouchables, who form the lowest rung of India’s ancient caste ladder.

The couple – named Wednesday among the recipients of the 2008 Right Livelihood Awards, often called the Alternative Nobel Prizes -have ensured over decades that thousands of acres of land were distributed to landless Dalit

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Slim and Yunus plan to form a lending institution

September 30, 2008 No Comments

One of the world’s richest men, Mexican telephone tycoon Carlos Slim, linked up with the world’s best-known microfinance guru on Monday in a bid to help poor families out of poverty.

Slim and Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus plan to form a lending institution that in a first phase will give out more than 80,000 loans, mostly focused on women, to get them up

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The quantity of livestock I possess has come down significantly: Karuna Rani Sarker

September 28, 2008 No Comments

Karuna Rani Sarker

Karuna Rani Sarker

“Previously, an area stretching out to about two to three bighas would yield an estimated amount of eight maunds of rice, now, my two bighas barely yield two and a half maunds”, says Karuna Rani Sarker, a resident of the Dumuria village, Phulbaria, Khulna.

“I own eight cows along with 5 calves but the quantity of livestock I possess has come down significantly mostly due to the outbreak of diseases especially among the poultry animals as well as the higher costs of maintaining

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