Majeda Begum a 29 year women of two children lives in Sattala basti. Her Husband’s name is Rashed miah. She has come from Kalkabari village of 1 No. Union in Mymensingh border area.
She has six members in her family including her husband and children. In her village life she continued a miserable life. She came in to Dhaka five years ago with a dream for a better life and search of working. Now she lives in a tin shed single room at Sattala basti. Though she got a work as a household servant near residential area and her husband as a rickshaw puller but their sufferings has not ended.
She does not able to give food properly to her family members. She dependent on the food received from the domestic help work and sometimes cooked at night. Both of their monthly total income is 8500 BDT approximately. They can’t save money from their income after paying the household rent, children education expenses and daily household expenditures.
They are facing lots of problems in their living house at slum. “In summer it’s too hot in room and electricity remain only for few hour, children’s become fall in to sickness and cant study properly also” she said. She not only faces problem in her home but in work also due to bad climatic events. She becomes sick occasionally due to high heat in slum house. For sickness she can’t attend in her work regularly and she also lost her job for this reason for a number of times. She is now only surviving in this city life. Though she wished to go back to her original place but she also think that ‘it is better to stay with this life rather than the life of village without food’.
