Shahida Parvin and her husband Mohammad Anwar live with their four children in the Market Camp of Mohammadpur area in Dhaka city. Shahida and Anwar got married in 1987. The next year Shahida’s parents and siblings migrated to India who now live in Begusarai village in the district of Bihar. Since getting married Shahida never had a chance to visit her family in India. By now both her father and...

Azim Khan is a poor resident of Geneva Camp in the Mohammadpur area of Dhaka city. He makes a living by driving an auto-rickshaw though he did not have a driving license. Because of this every now and then he was facing problems with the traffic authorities which made his livelihoods difficult and uncertain. The only solution to his problems was to obtain a valid driving license. But despite...

Shahana Begum lost her national identity (NID) card when she went to vote during the national election of 2014. She didn’t have any photocopy of the card and faced numerous problems due to not having her NID. It barred her from accessing services from many formal institutions. Shahana and her husband Mohammad Karim live in Geneva Camp in Mohammadpur, Dhaka with their four children. The family...