This is a story of Sahara Begum, husband Abdul Jabbar of the village west Chhoto Khata of Khalisha Chapani union, Dimla upazila of Nilphamari district. Sahara is a housewife and her husband Jabbar is a day laborer, works to other neighbors’ houses and farms but his irregular little amount of income is too little to fill up the basic needs of his family. Sahara’s family lives with poverty, hunger, malnutrition in unhealthy environment.
Sahara Begum got married when she was 11 years old. She bonded to early marriage for the traditional mindset of the society. There were six members with a son and a daughter of her family. It was difficult to bear the basic needs of the members of their family for one earner as a day laborer. The members of Sahara-Jabbar family could not be able to put away nutritious food. They were dispossessing from having fresh water, hygiene, they didn’t know about the importance of sanitation and without its harmful effects. They always remained surrounded by dirty and unhealthy environment. For all those misconduct of good practices maximum members remained sick caught by different diseases of fungal and viral infections.
Sahara-Jabbar family not a little bit of land to live on and even any cultivable land. They had to live with a not fully formed hurt without any assets, capital. Sahara’s husband Jabbar has to leave home and migrate to other districts like Chittagong, Comilla, Dhaka, Bogra in the country several times in the year. One day Sahara met with a field facilitator of SHOUHARDO II Program and going with the awareness to live better life of living to health and livelihood development. She was included under the complementary feeding for being pregnant mother. She has birthed a boy last 01.03.2012 of 3 Kg 700 gm weight with sound health condition. Sahara used to participate in court yard meetings and followed the advices of CHY properly. She uses to take the complementary food regularly with proper procedure. She also follows and maintains the Exclusive Breast Feeding (EBF). She takes some vegetables and fruits from home garden and besides home. The new borne babe and mother are so well and good (health) with all aspects that it does not look the babe belongs to an extreme poor family. The baby goes to check weight to GMP regularly. Now the baby becomes nearly 7 months aged and weight 7 kg. Sahara started poultry rearing, thus her earnings and savings habit going well. Sahra-Jabbar bought a piece of land of 2 decimal and made rooms, places a sanitary latrine in their house and follows the hygienic practices. All the members are maintaining the rules and precautions of health, nutrition sanitation, hygiene, cleanliness etc. Now they live well than the previous days.
Nowadays Sahara-Jabbar dreams, their younger child with other children will grow up with good environment good health habits and will establish their livings prosperous.
