Salma Khatun

Madhabpur, North 24 parganas, West Bengal

Salma Khatun

Little did Salma know that she would end up as a pauper when she was married off to a local youth, Akramul Haque, as a teen-aged daughter of a poor farmer. Everything was fine in the family till the time her husband’s income was steady as a tailor. Three children, comprising two sons and a daughter were born to the couple. They got them admitted into a local school with a dream of a proper up bringing for them. But financial problems stood in way of their longing for a decent life as her husband’s income was unsteady. Daily household expenses coupled with that of their children’s proper up bringing started taking its toll on the family. The situation came to such a pass that Salma had to step into supplement their family income by way of joining her husband as a weaver. Determined to keep herself afloat, she took a loan from money lender to purchase a sewing machine and started weaving herself. But she could not effort to repay the loan that she had borrowed from a money lender after meeting all family expenses. At this critical juncture of her life, Salma got to know about our organization and contacted its local branch. She was immediately granted a loan of Rs. 30,000/- which helped her repay the loan to the money lender & expand her business a little as well.