Ms. Halima was a victim of violence. Her husband used an axe over her for more money after marriage. By the grace of Allah she survived. She moved into a small township and we will not name it for security. She recovered after few month and started a small tiffin supply with initial help from family. JIBIKA gave her two rounds of support. With the first batch her mother bought her pots and pans. With the next batch sent – it augmented her working capital. Where ever you are and whichever township- if you find a fellow muslim brother or sister in distress you can support them with your ZAKAT or Sadaka and support a livelihood.
Category: Livelihood
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Treat the Children
JIBIKA wants to treat 30 street children in a restaurant/cafe/fast-food shop to gift them a splendid moment and perhaps a lifetime experience. We want to bear all the expenses of their food and if budget allows buy them some grocery to take back home.
Agenda:
We will randomly select poor street children and feed them quality meal at a luxurious food shop in different areas of the city with similar budget range. A small gift hamper including rice and pulses for them to take back home will be provided too.
Estimated budget would look like:
- 700 taka per child for meal totalling to BDT 700×30 = 21,000
- Gifts worth 200 taka for each totalling to BDT 200×30=6,000
- 500 taka per child for grocery items for their families totalling to BDT 500×30=15,000
Total Cost for Entire Event: 70,000 taka. If you think this is an event worth sponsoring, then please sponsor a child for only BDT 1400 USD 17.
You cannot change the world by sponsoring One child, but you may well change the world of One Child.
You can sponsor as many children as you want. We will stop collecting money once the total amount has been raised. If money saved, we will increase number of children.
Note: Our team / volunteers will bear their own food expense from their own pocket.
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Azizul Hoque needs to be debt free to survive
Azizul Haque is a 65 year old poor guy with 2 daughters and a son, from Faridpur district. Due to his illness he has a taken loan of BDT 30,000 from local merchants at 10% interest rate with no fixed term. Now to repay this he needs to pay 250 taka daily through rickshaw pulling. He has paid more than 15000 taka but his principal amount remains same. This will go on and he will hardly be able to pay the principal as the profit is 100 taka per thousand evert month. No matter how much he pays, it goes in the profit/interest amount and the principal remains same. He needs to get rid of this and start a small business to survive better.
JIBIKA has estimated an amount of BDT 55,000 to accomplish the mission. This will clear-up his dues in next 4 months and also enable him to start fresh with a vendor business.
UPDATE:
We have paid of all his dues. Now we need 10,000 taka to arrange him a sustainable living. He wants to buy a rickshaw and give it for rent. This way he will earn 3000 taka a month. And he will earn something by himself. When he has a moderate amount of money saved, he may move to his village and start a business there. To help him, please DONATE HERE
We donated further 7500 taka and he bought a rickshaw with his equity of 2000 with it. He is happy now and living a better life.
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Feed the Poor in Ramadan
JIBIKA wants to feed at least 20 persons per night including children who live on streets and are have-nots or working poor. We would buy them a dinner pack (polao/tehari/biriyani+water) for each of last 10 days of Ramadan. Every night, we shall feed 20 new people. So our target is to feed at least 200 people in 10 nights within Dhaka and Chittagong. The average cost per meal per person would be BDT 100 (USD 1.25) only. So we are looking for a fund of at least BDT 20,000 or USD 250. Please come forward and sponsor as many meal as you can.
UPDATES:
JIBIKA Foundation in Collaboration with Littleangelsbd.com has started a Campaign where LittleAngels will donate 100 taka for each of its transaction exceeding 800 taka to sponsor a meal to an underprivileged child/person. This is valid for the last 10 days of Ramadan. So if you are looking for buying stuff for your kids, please visit Little Angels at Banani 11.
Finally we ended up feeding 800+ people. Thank you all for supporting. Below is a small video to give you an idea of our campaign.
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Md. Aynal Struggles for Survival
Md. Aynal, a 50 year old man from Polashpur thana, Gybandha district is struggling to survive being a victim of the brutal socio-political system. He has chosen Rickshaw pulling as his occupation now in Dhaka despite his ill health. But he was not a rickshaw-puller nor an extremely poor.
Years ago he used to be a nursery owner living by selling plants. He was doing ok to live with his small family with 1 son and 1 daughter. Eventually he got influenced by social peers to get into cattle business and he invested 1 lac taka there. He was doing ok and made 40,000 taka profit within 3 months. Then the misfortune hit him. One day he went to Dinajpur to buy cattle and while returning from there his cow was confiscated by the Border Guard Bangladesh as they suspected it to have illegally entered from India. Many micro producers like him were victims to this. They were informed that these cattle will be auctioned and they can bid if they want. Later they could not manage enough fund to bid for the auction. Someone else took away their hard earned property infront of their eyes.
Aynal found himself in deep sea as he had borrowed money (20,000) from local people to buy the cow. He then had no option but to take a micro-credit from BRAC. In the meantime he was hospitalized for an illness for six months in Rangpur which cost his family more money. He became an Extremely-Poor eventually. Now he pulls rickshaw to repay his debt to micro-credit. He has returned half of it and still owes 8000 to BRAC. Moreover he has enrolled his son into Palashapur College to compelte his BA exam. This requires him to pay 3000 taka a month. His daughter who reads in class 8 now, also requires some money for school fees. So he has no option but to pull his rickshaw hard no matter how ill he is.
What can JIBIKA do?
JIBIKA wants to repay his debt of taka 8000. After that we will invest 20,000 taka for him to restart a nursary in his village/town. He said he is confident and skilled in this business and also sees enough demand in the market. He thinks he can manage his household living this way by staying with his family. This will also relieve him from labor intensive occupation such as Rickshaw-pulling.
So JIBIKA invites kind people/firms to come up with donations, charities, Zakat, CSR etc. to help this poor man survive and also allow his children to complete study.
Total Amount Needed: Tk. 30,000
UPDATE:
So far we have donated him 12,000 taka. He started the nursery business. However his plants have been devastated by the recent flood and he is back in astray. So we need to fund him for his recovery and re-employment. An estimated amount of another 30,000 is required. To help him rehabilitate please DONATE HERE
We donated further 8,000 to him and he managed the rest. He has left rickshaw pulling and lives in his home now with his family and earns from his nursery.
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Shahida Needs Help to Raise Her 4 kids
Shahida Begum, a middle aged women was identified in the city guarding her small children who were begging and selling balloons on the streets of Dhaka. Jibika found her eldest son, Shahin begging infront of a mosque in Dhanmondi after Jumma prayer on Friday. After detail discussion with him it was found that his father Harunur Rashid used to be a rickshaw puller who had become crippled after an accident and usually stays at home without much work. Shahida’s eldest child is a 14 year old daughter who used to work in a supermarket but had been recently discharged due to lack of documentation/paperwork on birth registration. Shahida became a heart patient when she lost her 5 year old son in a busy market. Today they survive on the sales proceedings from the balloons on the streets. Shahida’s youngest child is a daughter (Lucky) who is 17 months old only.
JIBIKA advocated with Shahida begum and it was agreed that she could start a roaming tea business which would include cigarettes, biscuits and battle leaves as well. This would increase their family earning and will help them survive with hope.
JIBIKA wants to donate for the cost of procurement of balloon for the son and also for the tea business for Shahida begum.
Total money required is as follows:
Balloon: BDT 500
Tea Business: BDT 5000 (flask, carrier, ciggertte, battle leaves, tea cups etc.)
UPDATES:
Taka 5000 was donated.
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Md. Kamal seeks employment to recover from river erosion
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.
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Help Ali Noor find an income source to bear his daughter’s education fees
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.
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JIBIKA helps Jalal to regain his Entrepreneaurship
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.
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70 year old made a survivalist
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.