Teresa is a Christian woman from the Western part of Bangladesh who makes Dateleaf baskets for HEED Handicrafts. She used to be only a housewife once, but now her strong non-stop basket weaving hands makes her the only valuable earning person of her family.
Teresa liked basket making from her childhood and learntthis skill from her father. At
that time it was her hobby tomake baskets and thus she tried to help her father with her two little hands. But who knew that this skill of her would one day help her to feed her whole family. Teresa’s husband used to do little businesses and his income was not bad at all. But after 7 years of her marriage, he left her with two children behind. Teresa returned to her father’s house but there also bad luck hunted her. Her father died. All the responsibility to earn the livelihood of her two children along with her mother and one little brother fell on her. First she could not decide what to do. Then she remembered her childhood hobby and started to make date leaf baskets. She
joined a HEED Handicrafts producer group there, and started to make date leaf baskets from HEED Handicrafts throughout the year. Now Teresa has overcome the dark night of her sorrow with her
those two non-stop hands and her baskets which she makes for HEED Handicrafts. She earns about 4,000.00 Taka ( US $ 70.00) per month now. She sends her two children to school, her son is in class eight and her daughter is in class three. She has returned smile to her mother’s lips also. She taught her brother this skill and he started to make baskets for HEED Handicrafts also. Teresa and her baskets go side byside. She makes the baskets and they make her life to move
ahead.
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