The women who are often victims of violence and trafficking are being liberated from insecurity and hardcore poverty through an initiative of Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) with the funding support of BSRM.
This is like a new beginning, a new lease of life for the poverty hit women of Bahadurpur, a village near Benapole border in Jessore. A skill training centre for women is expected to benefit ten thousand people of the village.
Alternative Development Organisation for Raising Entrepreneurship and a local daily Gramer Kagoj will jointly implement the project under the supervision of MRDI. To this effect, an agreement signing ceremony among the organisations was held in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman was present in the ceremony to encourage the initiative. Chairman of BSRM Alihussain Akberali, Executive Director of MRDI Hasibur Rahman and corporate dignitaries were also present. This project is a part of joint effort of MRDI and Manusher Jonno Foundation to use CSR funds as an alternative social development support.
BB governor highly appreciated the joint initiative of BSRM and MRDI in using CSR funds to address poverty. He termed it as an important step towards building partnership between corporate and civil society organisations for optimum utilization of CSR funds in development.
Referring to the CSR activities of BSRM, Akberali said BSRM wants to focus and engage in a few interventions related to education, health care, livelihood, and renewable energy to reach and affect the lives of many under its CSR programme.
This Jessore project would give the young vulnerable girls of the border area an opportunity to gain skills to make a livelihood and save themselves from the dirty hands of human trafficking gang.
