Ex-Combatant Moung mortgages ration for unlimited period

Moung Ghyong Marma (35), an ex-combatant from Khagarachari Hill District now survives with three children and wife by selling rice wine produced at home. Though taking of wine is permitted in the Jumma society but it is not considered as an honourable source of income.

To negotiate his wants he has been forced to mortgage his ration (100 kgs rice per month from the government) for 30,000 taka (equivalent to 508 US dollars) until he can give the money. He even has been compelled to sell his home and the tiny plot and now lives at a rented home.

He visited us for UNDP-CHTDF rehabilitation for two times since April this year.