bamboo- made handicrafts becoming popular
RANGPUR, Jan 08, 2015 - The eco-friendly bamboo- made
handicrafts have become popular again among the common people to
flourish the sector and bring fortune for hundreds of the unemployed
rural people in the northern districts.
Understanding harmful impacts of using synthetic goods, common
people are showing more interest in using bamboo-made handicrafts and
the private sector entrepreneurs have been producing, marketing and
popularising those to meet their demand.
Like many other entrepreneurs, Noman Ali, 42, has set an example in
reviving the lost aristocracy of bamboo-made handicrafts through
producing the next generation charming ones in village Moksudpur under
Badarganj upazila of Rangpur.
Following his footsteps, many youths of the village and adjoining
areas have already engaged themselves with the profession to achieve
self-reliance through producing and marketing quality bamboo-made
handicrafts having huge market demand.
Success of Noman Ali and his fellows have ushered in a new era in
protecting, flourishing and modernising bamboo-made handicrafts and
commercial farming of bamboo in the area attracting many others in the
prospective venture.
Noman Ali and others are producing bamboo- made handicrafts with
eye-catching looks and designs including beds, `khats', doors,
windows, furniture, tables, chair, fruit trays, tiles, boxes, baskets,
`phooldani', beauty boxes, show- cases and others goods.
After completing education, Noman Ali failed to get job when he
formed `Chhit Laksmipur Samaj Kallyan Samity (CLSKS)' involving local
unemployed youths in 2000 in search of fortune through locally taken
initiatives.
Members of the organisation first started earth-filling and road
repairing works and tree plantation in public places voluntarily when
local NGO `Come to Work' provided them with cost-free training on
income-generation activities.
In 2007, the NGO assisted 12 CLSKS members in taking part in a
skill-development training course on `Producing Bamboo-made
Handicrafts' with the financial assistance of Bangladesh Forest
Research Institute in Dhaka.
During the course, Noman Ali delivered speech at a seminar there on
`Creation Job Opportunities for Rural People' that attracted attention
of the high government officials, local and foreign experts brining
the turning point in his life.
He came back home with his trained team members and started
producing bamboo-made handicrafts and achieved success in attracting
the consumers and local people when demand of their products started
rising faster.
Later, Noman Ali had a chance to visit China where he participated
in a 13-day `International Training Workshop on Bamboo and Rattan
Processing and Utilisation' at Nanjing Forestry University in Nanjing
city in June 2008.
He was then surprised to see in China that modern handicrafts like
beds, `khats', doors, windows, furniture, tables, chair, fruit trays,
tiles, boxes, ware drops, baskets, `phooldani', beauty boxes,
show-cases and other goods could be produced using bamboo.
Noman Ali has been getting huge orders form Dhaka and other parts
of the country in recent years for producing and supplying various
bamboo-made handicraft products and many visiting foreigners purchase
those from his own showroom.
He said unemployed youths just need assistance and modern
machineries to flourish the eco-friendly handicraft sector that has
been on the verge of extinction due to various reasons, including
appearance of harmful plastic goods in local markets.
Highly lauding the successful initiative, Agriculture and
Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid stressed for
enhanced GO-NGO efforts in extending proper patronisation to explore
the prospective bamboo-made handicrafts sector.
handicrafts have become popular again among the common people to
flourish the sector and bring fortune for hundreds of the unemployed
rural people in the northern districts.
Understanding harmful impacts of using synthetic goods, common
people are showing more interest in using bamboo-made handicrafts and
the private sector entrepreneurs have been producing, marketing and
popularising those to meet their demand.
Like many other entrepreneurs, Noman Ali, 42, has set an example in
reviving the lost aristocracy of bamboo-made handicrafts through
producing the next generation charming ones in village Moksudpur under
Badarganj upazila of Rangpur.
Following his footsteps, many youths of the village and adjoining
areas have already engaged themselves with the profession to achieve
self-reliance through producing and marketing quality bamboo-made
handicrafts having huge market demand.
Success of Noman Ali and his fellows have ushered in a new era in
protecting, flourishing and modernising bamboo-made handicrafts and
commercial farming of bamboo in the area attracting many others in the
prospective venture.
Noman Ali and others are producing bamboo- made handicrafts with
eye-catching looks and designs including beds, `khats', doors,
windows, furniture, tables, chair, fruit trays, tiles, boxes, baskets,
`phooldani', beauty boxes, show- cases and others goods.
After completing education, Noman Ali failed to get job when he
formed `Chhit Laksmipur Samaj Kallyan Samity (CLSKS)' involving local
unemployed youths in 2000 in search of fortune through locally taken
initiatives.
Members of the organisation first started earth-filling and road
repairing works and tree plantation in public places voluntarily when
local NGO `Come to Work' provided them with cost-free training on
income-generation activities.
In 2007, the NGO assisted 12 CLSKS members in taking part in a
skill-development training course on `Producing Bamboo-made
Handicrafts' with the financial assistance of Bangladesh Forest
Research Institute in Dhaka.
During the course, Noman Ali delivered speech at a seminar there on
`Creation Job Opportunities for Rural People' that attracted attention
of the high government officials, local and foreign experts brining
the turning point in his life.
He came back home with his trained team members and started
producing bamboo-made handicrafts and achieved success in attracting
the consumers and local people when demand of their products started
rising faster.
Later, Noman Ali had a chance to visit China where he participated
in a 13-day `International Training Workshop on Bamboo and Rattan
Processing and Utilisation' at Nanjing Forestry University in Nanjing
city in June 2008.
He was then surprised to see in China that modern handicrafts like
beds, `khats', doors, windows, furniture, tables, chair, fruit trays,
tiles, boxes, ware drops, baskets, `phooldani', beauty boxes,
show-cases and other goods could be produced using bamboo.
Noman Ali has been getting huge orders form Dhaka and other parts
of the country in recent years for producing and supplying various
bamboo-made handicraft products and many visiting foreigners purchase
those from his own showroom.
He said unemployed youths just need assistance and modern
machineries to flourish the eco-friendly handicraft sector that has
been on the verge of extinction due to various reasons, including
appearance of harmful plastic goods in local markets.
Highly lauding the successful initiative, Agriculture and
Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid stressed for
enhanced GO-NGO efforts in extending proper patronisation to explore
the prospective bamboo-made handicrafts sector.
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