Ex-Combatant mortgages ration for son's education

Mukto Bikash Chakma (55), an ex-combatant can’t work and walk well with his bullet hit injuries in ankle, knee and right trunk. He has been forced to mortgage his government safety net ration (100 kgs rice per month) to send his son to school and sit for S.S.C. examination for 23,000 taka (equivalent to 333 US dollars) for two years. He has no any alternatives for which has been forced to mortgage the lone source of hard survival.

His son passed S.S.C. examination in last April and secured GPA 3.5. The result deserves appreciation, as he could not buy books and provide other supports for his son. He has been frustrated for not getting the promised rehabilitation neither from the government nor the UNDP. Since last January 2008 he at least visited us five times from remote area of Dighinala Upazila to enquire about the promised rehabilitation.

On July 10, 2008 he cried for our support to secure his son’s college education and a secured livelihood through UNDP-CHTDF rehabilitation programme.