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Where going hungry is the only o ther option

Hasihur Rahman BiLu, Bogura
"I can manage my four year old boy with false promises of food later, but how can I make my three month old understand that he has to wait for food?”
Basina, who has been going hungry regularly for days now, asks the question in desperation.
Wiping tears away from her eyes, Hasina says she can live through her own hunger but cannot bear her babies' crying out of hunger.
The 30 year old mother fled her village in Gaibandha with her ailing husband to escape the burden of loans they took to mainly feed the family.
Today she collects scrap paper from the streets for a living and lives in a rented makeshift house near the Bogra Rail Station.
Hasina barely makes Tk 40 to 50 Taka in a day, selling the scrap papers.
"This money is nothing compared to the need of my four-member family. We need at least one and a half kg of rice everyday, but with this money I cannot buy more than a kg from the OMS outlet,” Ilasina told The Daily Star.
She says she dreads the onset of evenings now when her baby starts crying of hunger and she cannot breastfeed him, because she never gets to eat enough herself to produce any milk for the baby.
"I yearn to give my baby at least a piece of biscuit to suck on, out where is the money when I don't even cam enough to buy some rice to keep the rest of us alive," she sighs.
After living on bare minimums for the last couple of days, she went to a neighbour yesterday to borrow at IcastTk 100 money to buy rice, but he had turned herdown.
Dejected, she rushed to look for scrap paper on the roads. It was already 1:30 in the afternoon when this correspondent met her and she said she had no idea how much paper she would be able to find by sunset to sell.
The story remains the same everywhere.
The poor, ultra poor or even others from fixed-income brackets all have a commonality today. They are either forced to borrow money from the lenders to be able to afford average meal or pass days half hungry because the prices of essentials continue to rise.
Abdul Latif Sarker, an employee at a driving institute of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation in Rajshahi and his schoolteacher wife Kohinoor Begum earn Tk 16,000 a month between them but even this is not enough to manage their family of five.