Bangladesh- Three Meals a Day (A One day on Earth Film)
Inside Asea Begum's home, shelves teem with jars containing pulses, grains, spices and dried biscuits. A little girl runs in with a small plastic bottle that Begum fills with cooking oil in exchange for a few coins. Asea Begum runs a small grocery store out of her one-room house in the Mymensingh district of northern Bangladesh. The store is a primary source of income for Begum, and allows her to provide for her family. Not long ago, however, Begum and her family ate just one meal a day, consisting of plain rice and a few pieces of chili. Her children were always hungry and her husband, who pulls a rickshaw all day, was continually exhausted. All this changed when Begum received a loan of 6000 Bangladeshi Taka (about US) from her local community development committee. The loan allowed her to start a small grocery business, and thereby signicantly increase her income. After repaying the loan, she also borrowed cash to buy goats, which she raises and sells in front of her house. Begum's monthly income is now about US, after expenses, and she has become a member of her local community development committee. These committees, made up of women like Begum, are the core of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) US0m Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) initiative. UPPR is implemented by various governmental and non-governmental partners and UN agencies. Currently, the programme, which began in 2008 and will run until 2015, has 100 government staff ...
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