Khushi Kabir
Khushi Kabir has been working to improve the lives of the rural poor in Bangladesh for almost 40 years. Since 1980 she has acted as head of Nijera Kori (We Do It Ourselves), an NGO which promotes self-reliance through mobilisation and rejects the concept of micro-credit. She is also a longstanding member of SANGAT, the South Asian Feminist Network.
Interviews with Khushi Kabir
The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World, recommended by Khushi Kabir
The Bangladeshi campaigner for lifting women out of poverty says village life has been wrongly idealised. It is not a harmonious whole, with the elders looking after the interests of all the villagers alike