Siddika’s Story: rising to the problem to alter her household’s life

By ASA

Siddika Begum is a tailor of bespoke and ready-to-wear garments within the west Agargoan space of Dhaka Metropolis, Bangladesh. She sells salwars (conventional attire), camizes (shirts) in addition to women underwear. Beginning this enterprise was borne out of want: after her mother and father married her off to a authorities employee whereas she was within the 10^th grade, her father died, leaving the accountability of caring for his or her household on Siddika’s shoulders. Siddika was only a easy housewife and had no monetary means to help her siblings. However she rose to the problem and began making garments at house, utilizing the revenue to assist her household.

From this, a brand new chapter of Siddika’s life was opened. Because the demand and fame of Siddika’s garments elevated, she outgrew her home-based operation. With a mortgage from Ladies’s World Banking community member ASA, she rented a store at a slender lane of west. For the final 5 years, she has taken loans from ASA regularly, beginning with one amounting to Tk. 50,000 which is presently utilized in her enterprise. Now, Siddika earns Tk. 30,000 internet on common per thirty days from her enterprise. She was even in a position to arrange a brand new store and provides it to her brother so he too, can have an income-generating exercise. Siddika has three youngsters and all of them are learning in class.

Siddika has massive goals: she desires to construct a giant garment manufacturing unit and supply alternatives for a lot of different individuals to work. She hopes ASA will assist her flip this dream into actuality—however she is assured that it will occur… quickly.

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