Md. Enamul Haque Mollick, owner of M/S Tasin Fish Feed Marketing, lives on Goruhati Road, Noapara, Abhoynagar, Jashore. He started his business in 2014 as a dealer for the Mega brand of feed and until 2018 sold only fish feed, oilcake, lime and rice polish (bran).
Rampal Upazila in the Bagerhat district is known as one of the major shrimp-producing upazilas in Bangladesh. One of the villages with the most potential in this upazila is Khejurmohol. Because it is located in a semi-saline zone, the area is well-suited for shrimp production.
Biddut Dhali is a prawn farmer from Sabokhali Village, Chitalmari Upazila, Bagerhat District, who has been farming prawns for the past eight years. He is a member of a marginalized farming family and always dreamed of obtaining a government job. After receiving a Diploma Degree in Agriculture in 2012, he sought any type of job […]
Every day, instead of going to school, millions of children perform difficult, dangerous work. Worldwide, 152 million children are engaged in child labor, 73 million in hazardous work – nearly half of these children are between the ages of 5 and 11. Because child labor interferes with schooling, it traps children in a cycle of […]
Bongpheak is an online employment service developed by the Open Institute (OI) in partnership with the USAID Cambodia Countering Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) program implemented by Winrock International. The web site helps low skilled and unskilled populations easily and safely connect to employment opportunities within Cambodia. The system was developed to improve low skilled workers’ […]
Even with a job as an extension worker, Nelson Lulanga could not financially support his large family. Being the only employed child in a family of eight children, the salary was never enough to care for his grandmother, support his younger siblings with school tuition, food and basic needs. He could barely make the ends […]
Qualified Adolescent Young Girls and Women (AYGW) and vulnerable young men in Malawi face many barriers to access Higher Education (HE) and safe employment. A country with one of the fastest growing populations and one of the youngest age structures in the world, where 45% of the 19.1 million total population is under 15 years […]
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Nepal issued a strict preemptive nationwide lockdown to protect its citizens against the virus, which halted public movement, closed non-essential businesses, and drastically reduced economic activities throughout the country. The Feed the Future Knowledge-Based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture in Nepal (KISAN) II project conducted a rapid market […]