As the Co-Project Lead of Amal’s Homemade Pickles, I work to transform a simple food venture into a platform for women’s empowerment and financial independence. This initiative provides rural women with training, resources, and market access, enabling them to generate sustainable income while preserving traditional recipes.
I am passionate about three things that are deeply connected in Bangladesh: women’s empowerment, gender equality, and climate justice. This isn’t just professional for me – it’s personal. Every day, I see how climate disasters hit women first and worst. The young girls (from 09 to 15 years old) are forced into marriage when floods destroy their family’s crops. The mother walks miles further for water as droughts worsen. The grandmother, who has survived a lifetime of cyclones, now fears for her granddaughter’s future.
What drives me isn’t just anger at these injustices – it’s the fierce hope I see in women fighting back; The mother who turned a small loan into a climate-resilient farm; The young woman who is leading her village’s disaster response team; The girls in our schools who will grow up knowing their worth isn’t measured in dowry payments.
In Bangladesh, climate change is a women’s rights issue. Women are the solution. When we empower them with education, resources, and voice, they don’t just survive – they transform communities. That’s why I fight: because justice for women means resilience for everyone.
Our eight years of grassroots work prove solutions exist:
But real change requires scaling these innovations globally. I seek sponsorship not for prestige but to forge partnerships that match my community’s courage. This is more than my calling – it’s a promise to my younger self that education and opportunity can bloom into systemic change for all women facing climate injustice.