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Training centre for women to help fight poverty

Our Correspondent, jessore
A training centre for disadvantaged women opened at the Basatpur village of Jessore yesterday, with the objective to fight poverty and women repression.
Financed by The City Bank Ltd's corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds, the centre aims to equip women with hand-stitching and tailoring skills, with 40 women already under training.
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was the chief guest at the inauguration ceremony, and said the government is
undertaking such projects to make the women more self-dependent.
“The women of our country have intelligence and they are hard working," she said, while urging the country's corporate houses to extend their support to such initiative for women empowerment.
Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman also spoke on the occasion.
"Financing this type of projects humanises the act of banking,” he said.
The last couple of years saw a rise in the use of CSR funds, which, Rahman thinks, can provide an alternative means to poverty reduction and social development.
Shaheen Anam, executive director of Manusher Jonno Foundation, said the rural women can become selfdependent thanks to the training provided by the centre.
“Once women become selfdependent, repression will fall tremendously," she said, adding that foreign aids can be reduced if more corporate houses introduce CSR funding.
Hasibur Rahman Mukur, executive director of Management and Resources Development Initiative, the coordinator of this project, said they were prompted to action after coming across a report on the plights of women from Basatpur, a village near the Indian border.
“Women were trafficked to India for flesh trade and their misery is indescribable. So we wanted to do something for them along with the other ultra poor women of Basatpur.”
Through training, Mukur hopes, the women would not only make themselves economically productive but also contribute to the country's development.
Meher Afroz Chumki MP; Sheikh Afil Uddin, lawmaker of Jessore-1; K Mahmood Sattar, managing director and CEO of The City Bank Ltd; Mustafizur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Jessore; and Mobinul Islam, editor of Gramer Kagoj, among others also spoke.