Dream of Solaiman Badsha – Exploring avenues of livelihood
Solaiman Badsha ayouth ageing17, is the son of Mr.Samsul Alam and Ms.Hosne Ara Begum. He has two brothers & a sister. His father is a landless pushcart driver and his mother, a house wife. They have migrated from a rural area of Chandanaish Upazila to port city of Chittagong with an aim to explore avenues for livelihoodoptions and now they are living in Hajirpurslum area of Chandgoan, Chittagong.
Solaiman Badsha was the student of class eight at the age of fourteen. Earlier, they had a happy family although with a meager income. His father was like an umbrella for the familywhile he was with them. All on a sudden, a disruption occurred in his family; while his father got married with another lady and abandoned his family. It was like a bolt from the blue for them and the total family stood helpless. Solaiman’s mother was shocked and puzzled and was in a fixthinking of how to manage food, clothing, shelter, treatment as well as educational expenses for her family members.
Solaiman Badshastarted thinking of earning somehow to help his mother for their survivals. Then he started to work in a local Tea-Stall as a tea serving boy. One day while he was serving tea to a customer, by mistake the tea cup was broken down into pieces. Due to that unfortunate incident, his employer tortured him. This unfortunate incident was a great insult to him, which makes him gloomy and unhappy. He was thinking of other way to get rid of this insult and looking forother livelihood options. Suddenly he found an advertisement on admission of the students in UDDIPAN TVET Centre, Chandgoan R/A,posted on the wall of that tea stall. He took one night to think of it and next morning he left the tea stall. He went to UDDIPAN TVET CENTER along with his mother and appeared in a briefing session of different tradebased courses to be held and later he took decision to be admitted into Electrical Trade with a dream of a job and better life after the training is over. Moreover, he was very happy to know that he will get 1500 taka every month for training allowance at the end of the month after participating in the training course.
He has a pleasant feelingwhile the trade course started in the UDDIPAN TVET Centre with other 14 fiends of similar age group. During the period, he came to know that UDDIPAN TVET Centre will help to get a decent job in a suitable industry or factory according to his achievements. In addition, UDDIPAN will provide loan to the students those who will be willing to start self-employment as per the Micro Finance Policy of UDDIPAN. This effort will help to remove his poverty and pave the new way of income and livelihood as well.He also added his good feelings on the overall congenial environment of UDDIPAN TVET Center. In the mean time, he passed his first 6 months of total one year training course including 3 months apprenticeship in a suitable industry or factory.
He expressed his gratefulness to UDDIPANTVET CENTER CHITTAGONG, Terre des Hommes Netherlands, overall UDDIPAN managementand finally to the almighty Allah for the opportunityhe availed that leads him to put his dream into reality.
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