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Tabarek is an orphan living with her vulnerable grandmother and disabled brother and two other siblings in a cellar. She takes care of the family – she is only nine. Tabarek does not attend school because of her family circumstances. Distant relatives and neighbours help the family with food and a few other things but their need for help is greater.

Help The Needy’s Family Sponsorship Programme helped the family pay for the medication of Tabarek’s vulnerable grandmother and disabled brother. The future of her brother Abdullah is unknown as he needs an urgent heart operation – the family cannot afford it – the future of the family is unknown.

Bahar, a 7 years old boy, lives in Modhubazar Slum, Dhaka. His father is a shopkeeper and his mother runs a tea stall in the park adjacent to Dhanmondi Lake. The monthly income of his parents is less than Tk. 5000. Bahar has two siblings. Bahar and his siblings spend their entire day in Dhanmondi Park with their mother. Gifted with an exceptionally sharp memory, Bahar came to be quickly noticed by our authorities during their regular tour of the park for potential students. However, we found it extremely difficult to persuade Bahar to attend classes as he would rather spend his time playing with his friends in the park.

After receiving basic education offered by Help The Needy, Bahar can now read and write his name and address. He can identify English and Bengali alphabets. He knows that he should love his country and respect his elders. He has a sense of what is right and wrong. He is also acquainted with the fundamentals of Islam.

Bahar hopes to join the Bangladesh Police Force when he grows up.

Abdul Aziz, is around 65 years old. He lives in the Pirerbagh Slum of Agargoan, in Dhaka. He has four sons and four daughters. He is a rickshaw puller and earns a meagre 70- 90 taka per day.  His sons do not contribute towards the household income. Abdul Aziz’s wife, who is also elderly, works as a part time maidservant in order to support her husband. Due to their age they are not able to find jobs that would enable them to support themselves sufficiently financially.

There are even days when the family goes to bed without food as Abdul Aziz has been too sick to go to work. Rickshaw pulling is very hard laborious work. During Ramadan, he could not pull his rickshaw the whole day due to his fasting.

After receiving Help the Needy’s Food Packets throughout the month of Ramadan he was very happy and extremely grateful to them and their sponsors. He said  “I could not have provided  food for my family this month without pulling the rickshaw which was proving to be very difficult; but thanks to the support of Help the Needy I will not need to pull the rickshaw this Ramadan“.

Rowshan Ara, is a 48 years old slum dweller. Her husband died of a chronic disease in 1993 in her early married life. She has a son and a daughter both of whom are married. They do not contribute at all towards her income. Therefore she has to work.

She works as a contractual water seller. She supplies water to various hotels and tea stalls. She purchases water from the city corporation water suppliers which she carries in jars on her shoulder to sell to her clients. This is a hard laborious job but she has no other means of survival. Her net income is a meagre 60 taka per day. The amount is not enough for her survival.

After receiving the Food Pack for the month of Ramadan she was very grateful for the help and relieved of the burden of working so hard.

Marriam Begum is a mother of two children who got married at the age of 13. Her husband was a drug addict and the family was surviving on less than a dollar a day. This situation ended her marriage, as well as the fact that she was the victim of domestic violence. Marriam got a job as a maidservant but her wages were not enough to make ends meet for her family. In 2010, Help the Needy established a Women’s Training Centre adjacent to the slum where Marriam lives. This encouraged her to take training in tailoring and embroidery, where she successfully completed the course. Before receiving training, her daily income was less than a dollar a day. However after completing the training, her monthly income increased to BDT 6000 and she now lives out of poverty with her two children. Marriam says, “I pray for Help the Needy and their donors for helping me to learn a new skill that enabled me to confidently change my life and live with a sense of dignity and pride.”

Widow Hariya Bebi has lost her husband but has not lost Hope yet!
Please Sponsor her Family
 

Hariya Bibi and her family became victims of the worst ever flood in Pakistan in 2010. Her husband lost his life in that flood. He was the only source of income. Hariya Bibi has four daughters and four sons, out of whom one daughter is married. But her sons are too young to be the breadwinners of the family. Help the Needy provided her and her family permanent shelter in the form of a two bedroom concrete house.

All of her relatives are also living below the poverty line so they too are not in a position to support her and her family. Hariya Bebi has no other option than struggling to find work all day long to earn money to feed her seven kids.

Hariya was very happy when Help the Needy provided shelter but asked; "where should I go to get food for my kids?"