Tagged “Garo”

Trishna Dio turned down a job in Australia to earn dollars from Kakorkandi village; load-shedding is her only rival

An MBA, a Dhaka HR job she hated, a graphics course in Mymensingh, an $86 first order, and now Tk 60,000-86,000 a month from a Garo village…

23 Aug 2022

Three weeks after the report, Madhupur's Garo freelancers get 4G, and throw a festival

Grameenphone's chief executive read the story about modems tied to trees, put a temporary tower in Gaira, and on 12 March the villages of…

13 Mar 2022

Modems hung from lychee trees: the Garo freelancers of Madhupur forest working on 2G

Around 350 young Garo people trained at Nokrek IT Institute earn dollars from villages ten kilometres inside Tangail's Madhupur forest…

27 Feb 2022