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THE TWO AWARDEES
COMPASSION is one of the strongest characteristics humans can posses. It is a trait that can be present in almost everyone. While all beings are able to show it, some go the extra mile.
One such individual is 90-year old Jahiron Bewa. She can be seen moving from one house to another on a bicycle from morning till afternoon.
She cycles all around to provide villagers across Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat free medical consultation regarding common ailments. For major diseases, she refers patients to hospitals.
The locals have affectionately given her the title of "Banglar Nani (Grandmother of Bangladesh)".
Jahiron has been providing the service to the inhabitants of the upazila for the last 44 years.
She completed a six-month training course on healthcare and family planning in 1973, following which she began working as a local health worker for the next decade. Jahiron provides free medical advice and even medicines.
Although, selling medicine is a source of income for her she does not deny medication to those who cannot afford it.
Jahiron, a mother of three, faced one of the biggest tragedies a mother can when her eldest son, Danes Ali,
passed away eight years ago at the age of 66. Six years ago she lost her husband.
However, this did not prevent her from carrying on her work. She has passionately pursued her work, covering almost 30 villages every month.
While she earns Tk 150 per day from selling medicine, money is not her motivation at all. Her sons insist that they have enough farmland and do not need the additional income.
But Jahiron is unstoppable and pursues her work relentlessly.
The nongenarian’s dream is to provide healthcare services to the villagers in Aditmari until her final breath, until the wheels of her cycle keep spinning.
IN an exceptional endeavour, Union Parishad Member SM Alamgir Hossain Shrabon of Noihati in Khulna's Rupsha upazila began a mobile library on a rickshaw van.
He pedals the library from village to village, lending books to school and college students, housewives and villagers of various occupations.
A history graduate, Shrabon was elected as a public representative on March 22, 2016. Since then, he swore to work to rid this union of social degradation caused by drugs, eve-teasing and unsavoury politics.
Shrabon, who was the youngest among the 12 candidates in the election, began the library that currently boasts over a thousand books-- starting from Hindu law to science, Microsoft Access to Khulna's history. Some books have been donated while he himself bought many others.
Owner of a modest event management company, Shrabon says some people mock him as he pedals the van to the villages. "I'll never lose my determination to enlighten people," he says, echoing the motto on his van: "Alo Footbei [There will surely be light]".
The library is not his only initiative. He has established two training centres where hundreds of women
learn weaving, handicrafts, tailoring and more.
He also established an information technology club that offers free FT courses and arranged solar lights with closed circuit cameras in key areas of his union to improve law and order. He has also overseen the creation of public wi-fi hotspots to encourage online learning.
"I want to eradicate poverty through education," Shrabon said.
He is available for consultation at the union council chamber every morning. He has publicly invited all 70,000 plus union constituents to bring their problems to his door.
'I want to take my mission to help people from the local to the upazila level, then district-wide and ultimately, across the nation."