Unsung Women Heroes: Sumi’s resolve to help those with disabilities
Shamima Akter Sumi
Shamima Akter Sumi, popularly known as Kabya Sumi Sarker, is a poet and prominent social worker in Mymensingh. Over the years, she has increasingly involved herself with multiple initiatives to support all who need help. I started supporting 32 disabled people at my village, Khaloipura, in Mymensingh s Fulbaria upazila in 2017, said Sumi. It was 2016, when my housemaid, Romicha Khatun, informed me that her five-year-old grandson had disabilities, but she could not manage any government allowance. Then I, with the help a relative, started trying to manage a [government allowance] card meant for people with disabilities. But sadly, the card was managed one and a half years later, and on that same day, the child died. That shocked me so much, she said.
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No one held, a month after the murder of a disabled man Our Correspondent, Mymensingh Our Correspondent, Mymensingh
Family members of a man who was killed over land dispute in Mymensingh on December 25 alleged that they were being threatened by the accused.
The victim, Mozammel Hossain Babul, 50, had been running a small grocery shop at his home in Kalyanpur village of Mymensingh Sadar since 2007.
No accused has been arrested yet in this connection.
Talking to this correspondent, Babul s wife Sheuly Akter, 45, who works as a domestic help in the capital, said her husband used to pull rickshaw in Dhaka. In 1995, he had an accident and was admitted to the Pangu Hospital, where his right leg had to be amputated.