Trained Nilphamari women attain solvency doing sewing on clothes

NILPHAMARI, Oct 25: About a thousand of women of the district brought financial solvency by doing ornamental stitching, embroidering work, sewing and spangling on clothes after taking training from the Youth Development Centre here.
Sources said nearly 1000 poor, divorced, physically-challenged and illiterate women of Saidpur Upazila and around 700 of Sadar Upazila are now engaged in the profession. Some entrepreneurs have also established small-scale enterprises in association with the local traders.
Amena Begum, a widow and mother of two children of Sadar Upazila, said she has taken training from the centre and now working at a spangling shop in Bahalipara and earn Tk 8,000 per month.
Ayub Ali, an enterprise owner of Nilphamari Municipality, said at present there are 15 women in his stitching centre and of them five of those are poor college girls who work full time on Fridays and Saturdays and part time in other four days. He said the students earn Tk 4000 to Tk 5000 per month which enables them to maintain their education expenses.
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Source: The Financial Express


 

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