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Case study of
Saima Bibi
 Shazia Tabassum a government school
teacher & an active member of Hum Awaz Forum
identified this case from a tent village which is situated in upper
uddhah MZD. On the behalf of Shazia, the team of KCT visited Sakeena
bibi a widow of 38; living with her two daughters and 4 children in this
tent village in the consequence of earthquake 2005. She is a resident of
SariDara village, far from city mzd.Her husband was died eight years
ago. After the devastated earthquake, she was migrated in Mzd and going
to spend her life in this tent village with her two daughters and four
sons under the age of 10. Sakina’s eldest daughter, who is 14 years old, is working in a sewing
center far flung of her house and earns RS 1400 per month and running
the expenditures of her family. She reminded that before the earthquake
they were living happily in their home; she had two cows and she earned
money by selling their milk. But after earthquake they don’t have a
proper place to live that’s why they are living in this tent village.
Her eldest daughter was not present at that time because she was inthe
sewing center run by a local business women. In the evening the team of
KCT entered in the tent village to meet Sakina Bibi; she took us in her
small tent which is sufficient only for two persons but a family of 7 is
living in this tent with a kitchen at left of it. She told us that her
husband died due to brain hambridge. She told us that I have a lot of
things to worry about and because of this I cant sleep whole night. Many
times I cryies with depression that no one is here to help me and my
orphan children. My Eldest daughter is of 14 and I have to marry her but
she is our only source of income as she use to go in a sewing center
where she can earn hardly 1500 rupees after one month’s hard labour. My
4 sons are going in a govt. primary school. she told about her all
problems major of which was financial. Sakina Bibi wanted that if her
daughter had a sewing machine, she can generate more income at home
after arriving from the center. KCT has provided an electric sewing
machine along with necessary utensils for cutting and stitching to her
daughter. Now
her daughter Saima works in two shifts; in first time she works in her
centre where she earns 1500 per month and in second time she works at
home where some times she earns more than 2000 each month with the help
of her mother and younger sister who is also studying in class eight.
Now Sakina Bibi has become self-sufficient; she is easily bearing the
expenditures of her family.
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