Judge Ayesha Ahmed of the Chester City Magistrate's Court in the United Kingdom sent food to the underprivileged people after the news was published under the headline 'Not even a pot of rice is put in the stove every day in Bede Palli of Habiganj'.
On Wednesday afternoon, food items were delivered to 13 families in the Bede (gypsy) village on the banks of the Khowai River. Each packet contained rice, pulses, soybean oil, potatoes, onions and salt. The families are happy to get food.
Selina Akhter, who is unemployed, said while picking up the packet that no one asked about them for almost five months as she was not a voter in the area. Finally, after receiving the food, she thanked the newspaper authorities and Judge Ayesha Ahmed.
The news was published in Bangladesh Post newspaper yesterday. This raised the issue of the helplessness of these disadvantaged people. When the matter came to her notice, Ayesha Ahmed, a magistrate and poet from the United Kingdom, contacted them. Within a few days of the news, she delivered food to Bede Palli.
Journalist Saif Ahsan, Mamun Chowdhury, Habiganj correspondent of Bangladesh Post Badrul Alam, Nazrul Islam and Saiful Islam and others were present during the handing over of food items.