This project is funded by
the European Union
My personal transformation
Jan 1 19 | Video
When I first joined the Jukta Hoe Mukta project I was a simple girl who did not know how to deal with people and how to communicate with other girls in the society. I also did not know how to solve different problems in the community. After joining I could solve many problems. Now I […]
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In need of a job for ensuring a future to my child
Jan 1 19 | Video
My name is Manota, I am 19 years old. I got married when I was very young, at 12 years old when I was in class VI. I did not have any idea about marriage, my parents organized it and I could not say anything. I have a child. My husband left me and we […]
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How the App is working
Jan 1 19 | Video
My name is Rozina. As Team Leader, I share information on different topics (education, health, training and employment, mobile and other services, like gas, water, and electricity). In my group, there are 10 girls, called Normal Phone Holders. I share information with them. Usually, they come to me when they have some issue. Apart from […]
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Respected by the community
Jan 1 19 | Video
My name is Nowsheen and I am a Team Leader of Juka Hoe Mukta. Before this project, community people were not used to taking me seriously. They were treating me like a kid. But when the App has been initiated and I started providing support to the people by linking them up to medical and […]
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The relevance of sharing information
May 12 18 | Case study
Ziah was born in a poor family of a village in Phultala Upazila. Ziah’s father is a day laborer and she was one of three children. When Ziah was 15 years old, she fell in love with a boy from the same village who was unemployed. Shortly after getting married, misery and sorrow began to […]
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Strongest mother
May 12 18 | Case study
Yamha 34 years old is an ordinary housewife like other girls who was married early and made a family. She has 4 children two of which are adolescents. After giving birth to her youngest child her husband left and remarried with another lady. After his departure she had no way to sustain herself and her […]
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Unity in Numbers
May 12 18 | Case study
In on area of Dhaka one partner NGO has 2 worker’s groups made up of workers from one garments factory in Dhaka. Group members shared with NGO staff that their factory management has not been paying workers’ yearly leave encashment when the payment was due by January 2018. In the mid- February 2018 all workers […]
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Sick leave is every worker’s right
May 12 18 | Case study
Rimi is a member of a worker’s group. She has been working in a garments factory for about 3 years as an operator. For one week she was suffering from a high fever. She asked the factory management for sick leave; however, the factory management did not grant it to her. As Rimi’s fever worsened […]
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Happily employed
May 12 18 | Case study
Nayani’s parents moved into a small single room in Dhaka soon after their marriage. Nayani’s father started working as a helper in a bus and her mother found employment as a housemaid. However, upon becoming pregnant with Nayani she was forced to leave the job. Once Nayani turned 2 her parents jointly decided that Nayani’s […]
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A “family school”
May 12 18 | Case study
Mitrajit’s parents lived in the village before marriage but moved to Dhaka in search of work. Mitrajit’s father started driving rickshaws and his mother became a housewife. Recently, Mitrajit’s father changed his profession; he works at a tea stand with his mother worked as a shop assistant. Mitrajit has an elder brother, as well as […]
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