More than 115 million Bangladeshis live in rural villages. Those villagers don’t have much, but many do own a cow. In fact, Bangladesh has the third-largest cattle population in Asia (and the 12th-largest in the world). In theory, those bovines were the most valuable and profitable asset that poor Bangladeshis owned. The problem was that some simply did not know how to generate income from their cow.
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It’s a story repeated in various incarnations around Bangladesh. But for Farouk Jiwa, a member of the economic development team at CARE, Mia’s story also inspired a solution.
CARE knew Bangladesh’s dairy industry was a prime area where the country’s poor could find gainful income, if only they had access to it. So the staff began working in the country’s rural north to recruit people living below the poverty line (those subsisting on $2 or less per day) into dairy farming. But just pointing them in the right direction wasn’t enough.
Click here to read more: http://www.good.is/post/using-cows-to-pull-bangladeshi-farmers-out-of-poverty/
Earlier related Farouk Jiwa: elected Senior Ashoka Fellow, receives life-time honour in recognition of his work
Ismailimail 
I actually had a chance to work with Farouk on this project. Its a great team working on an amazing and beneficial development project. They are also supporting some interesting non-profits from the region and taking a more ‘business-minded’ approach to development that is the future of the industry.
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