IT is a success story that makes us believe once again in the inner potential of the people of this country who can do wonders against all odds if given a little help. And our morale gets a bigger boost when our womenfolk living in the fringes dare to come out of the shadows to set examples worth emulating. In fact, this is the success story of three women who have changed their fate by properly utilising some micro-credit they had borrowed from credit lending organisations.
Through sheer determination, hard work and sincerity Sabina Begum of Gazipur, Baby Chakma of Rangamati, Salma Akter of Pabna have become small scale entrepreneurs today, running their business on a full time basis. It in no mean feat that today each one of them earns net profit of around Tk.30,000 per month.
We are indeed happy that the entrepreneurship skill of Sabina, Baby and Salma did not go unnoticed. Citi Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Citi group and Shakti Foundation for Disadvantaged Women (SFDW) organised a befitting function on Thursday, where the three entrepreneurs were given the Citi Micro-entrepreneurship Award 2008. We are hopeful that the three awardees would do even better in the future to earn similar laurels from other organisations.
The three successful women entrepreneurs have set an exmaple for other micro-credit borrowers in the country. They had invested the money in some innovative projects and worked hard to turn them into profitable concerns. They had returned the seed money to the lending organisations along with the accrued interest, and then had borrowed a bigger amount the next time. This is how they have reached where they are today. They have empowered themselves and brought happiness in their family. They deserve the accolade they are getting from organisations like Citi group. We hope their success story will be widely publicised so that other women can become inspired to come forward with plans of their own. The micro-credit lending organisations may use the mass media to impart the success story across the country. It needs no emphasising that if nearly fifty percent of the population can become self-reliant through engaging themselves in profitable business ventures then our national economy will get the desired upward thrust.
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