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What went wrongA trained food-corner operator in East Sheorapara, Dhaka, in a Prothom Alo report

A food corner shared by five opened in May and shut in June

A food corner handed to five trained women opened in May and closed in June, with only one still trying to keep it going. A survey found 44 percent of trained women had set up no work six months after training.

Five women in East Sheorapara, Dhaka, were given a food corner to run after training by the Jatiya Mahila Sangstha under the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. The shop opened in May and shut in June, because none of them could give it regular hours against what their families demanded. When a reporter contacted them in August, one was trying to reopen it alone; the other four had dropped out. She points out that the others had family problems too, and that not everyone has the same skills. A shop split between five part-timers has nobody who must open it each morning, which is why it lasted a month. An IMED survey of 2,000 trained women across 16 centres found 44 percent had set up no work at all six months after training.

Lessons

  1. 1.A shop shared between five part-time partners has nobody accountable for opening it; it closed in a month
  2. 2.Training plus a shop is not a business: without someone able to give it full time it shuts

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