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1,000 transgenders get rehabilitation support in Rajshahi

Published : Thursday, 22 August, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 113
Around 1,000 people with gender diversity commonly known as transgender are getting rehabilitation support in terms of ensuring their human rights, dignity and social justice in Rajshahi.

Particularly, they are getting need-based support of capacity development, livelihood improvement and empowerment through computer and outsourcing training with intervention of a project.

The Diner Alo Hijra Sangha (DAHS), works for protecting fundamental rights of the extremely excluded population in the society through their integration, has been implementing the project since December, 2022.

The three-year project titled "Strengthening Capacity of Gender Diverse Community to Protect Their Rights (SCG)" is being implemented in all 30 wards of Rajshahi City Corporation and nine upazilas of the district.

Main thrust of the project is to attain sustainable organizational development through boosting partnership of the organizations working for empowering the gender diversity population and capacity improvement.

It has also provision of ensuring justice through identifying the incidents of human rights violation of the targeted people. With intervention of the scheme, the DAHS has started enhancing scopes of advocacy at different levels for formulating policy, law and best practices for their safeguards.

SCG Project Coordinator Abu Sayeed gave a salient feature of the project along with its aims, objectives and implementation strategy.

He said the project is being implemented for improving the living and livelihood conditions of 1,000 transgender people.
Major activities of the projects are: arranging training on human rights, gender balance and leadership, placement grooming session, providing financial support for income-generation activities, skill development-based crafts training, sewing and embroidery training, catering training and leadership training for skill development.

DAHS President Mohona also highlighted the activities of the organisations for elevating the living and livelihood condition of transgender people in the city.

She pointed out that the members of the community are always subjected to negligence and repression in every sphere of life including family and society.

The Hijra community is deprived of several rights, she added. The public in general have a very narrow mindset regarding genderless people and they should change their mentality.

Being rejected by families, many grew up hating their bodies, and fall victim to depression, drug addiction, violence and suicide, he added.

Around 2.5 per cent people of the total population were genderless, she said, adding that time has come to ensure their basic rights.     —BSS 



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