Once there lived a middle-aged woman named Bilkis. She had three sons. Her husband was very lazy and he did not do any work. None but she had to work all day long to earn money for the family. One day she met a group of people who came to her village from the Grameen Bank. They said they were interested in helping the poor people, the landless and the helpless. She learnt from them that they would provide loan to poor people particularly the rural poor women. She took loan of three thousand taka. Then she bought a dheki and some paddy with the money. Soon after getting the loan, she and her husband started to make a plan. First they made a thatched hut so that they didn't have to live under the open sky. The profit that she made was enough to repay the first installment and buy food and clothes for her children. She sold the rice in the market and made a good profit. In this way she changed her lot.
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