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Md. Kamal, a 45 year old man from the District of Bhola seeks refuse to Jibika to rehabilitate him with sustainable employment. He has 2 sons and one daughter who lives back in home with their mother. He had agriculture land which was washed away due to river erosion. He came to Dhaka to look for employment and may end up with Rickshaw pulling which would cost him lots of physical hurdles and yet low income. JIBIKA plans to engage him as a coconut vendor. This would earn him 30,000 taka (USD 395 or dollar 13 a day) month at the least. We hope he can maintain his children education and family with this quite comfortably.

An estimated amount of BDT 12000 or USD 158 is required to buy him a cart and 100 green coconuts to kick off the business.

Interested kind people are requested to come forward and donate any amount from your Zakat or Charity sources.

UPDATES:

Taka 10,000 was donated.

The 54 year old Md. Ali Noor works at Holy Side hotel in Sylhet town as a watchman. He earns only taka 4000 a month which is very minimal to sustain a family of his size in today’s economy. He has 2 daughters and a son. The eldest daughter is studying HSC but is facing hardship to pay off education fees. The younger daughter has been withdrawn from school. The son is only 6 years old and studying at school. Ali Noor comes from Jamalganj union, Sunamganj district. He wants to restart his old grocery shop which periled during his financial crisis.

Mr. Noor was employed in Saudi Arabia but due to racism and immigration issues, he was misbehaved by his employer and sent back. Upon returning in BD, he found that his brothers sold out his shop. He had no option but to accept the job of a security guard.

JIBIKA Foundation wants to stand beside him with the support of kind donors.

An estimated amount of taka 50,000 (USD 700) is required to help this poor family find some hope to survive with dignity. Please come forward and donate on  Zakat or Charity purpose.

UPDATES:

BDT 55,000 was donated.

Md. Jalal Uddin Sheikh is a 56 year old man who has been forced to migrate to Dhaka city to find some income source for his financial adversities. He comes from 2 Hossainpur Union, Polashbari Thana, Gainbandha district. He had taken some loan to meet up the medical expense of his wife who has been suffering from acute diseases like diabetes, gall bladder stone etc. He also had to suspend his grocery shop due to lack of fund to procure inventory. Being baffled, he came to Dhaka and started pulling rickshaw to maintain his family and repay the installments of the loan he took with high interest rates.

JIBIKA has identified him as a genuine and potential beneficiary in need of financial assistance that can rebuild his livelihood wheel. An amount of Taka 10,000 was given to him to restart his grocery shop so that he does not have pull rickshaw any more in Dhaka and he can slowly manage to repay his loan based  on the profit earned from his business.

A 70 year old man has been given a new life to survive. JIBIKA found him fighting hard to survive on the streets of Dhaka city. He pulls rickshaw half time and suffers from malnutrition. His family is in Tangail. We helped him start a new tea and cigarette business that is less labor intensive, has more ownership and quick inventory turnover. He has been doing well. We invested around 5000 taka. His first day sale was 900 taka. We wish him a profitable and sustainable employment.

Md. Babul Sheikh, a crippled middle aged man, abandoned by his wife and kids, struggling hard to earn his bread on a daily basis. He is a dweller of an isolated land near Rupsha river in Khulna district. Earlier in his life, he used to work as day laborer before he broke his leg falling from a date tree while collecting date juice. Since his disability, due to poverty and hunger, his wife and children left him alone. Today he looks after other people’s land and gets some food in return. The townsmen have built a small shed for his shelter.

JIBIKA recognises his suffering and dire need of basic food and clothing. Therefore it calls on donations from kind people for buying him a black goat and some poultry day old chicks, some vegetable seeds for gardening and little cash to buy some good clothes. The entire funding requirement is not likely to be more than Tk. 3000.

UPDATES:

A goat was purchased and donated to him.

Ahsanullah, an 80 year old guy trying to pull rickshaw only in evening and ends up earning 100 taka a day. His wife expired few months back due to lack of treatment. His younger daughter who used to work at garments factory is also bed ridden on account of typhoid. He has mortgaged her gold ear ring at 2000 taka for her treatment. He has to pay 400 taka a month for installment. His another daughter came back to him with a baby child on her account. The old man is fighting hard to survive. He comes from the district of Nowakhali where his belongings and collaterals were washed away by the tyrant tide. Currently he lives in Gabtoli and rides rikshaw from there into the city.

He has expressed his interest to start a vendor business with betel leaf and cigarettes which would help him earn more or similar but at less physical stress. He also needs money to cure his daughter so that she can start earning again.

Based on an estimation done by JIBIKA Management, it was found that an amount of 6500 taka would help this old man start a rejuvenated life.

We are requesting all of you to contribute and invite others to do so in making this project successful.

N.B: Anyone having doubt on the authenticity of the facts of the old man, is earnestly requested not to contribute.