“I can be self-reliant through [these goats] and start paying off my debts” says a returnee migrant worker With the hopes and dreams of a happy life, Meher, a 26 year old, migrated to Jordan to work at a garments factory. Up until migration she used to live with her family. However, it was becoming increasingly difficult for Meher’s rickshaw puller father to take care of a large family of 5 consisting of 3 daughters and a son. That is why Meher’s migration was becoming inevitable day by day as the need for support to her family was increasing. Meher has studied up to 5th standard and could not continue her studies due to her family’s economic condition. At one point, her father started contacting different people who can help her go abroad and found a sub-agent who had facilitated labour migration for many from their community in the past. From him they got to know that there was an opening at a garments factory in Jordan. Learning about the payment and the fact that many women were migrating from her area, she happily agreed to the offer. She borrowed equivalent of BDT 75,000 for bearing the cost of migration. But her dreams got the first shock when she was being paid BDT 15,000 instead of the promised BDT 20,000 and sometimes, she did not even get to have proper food and had to starve often. During the outbreak of COVID 19 her work at the garments factory started to decrease and at one point it completely stopped. She had no work for 4 months at one point and the owner did not pay her any salary for 4 months. Meher had to return to the country in October 2021 without salary. She is entitled to receive BDT 300,000 from her employer. Due to this sudden return and with the burden of a failed dream, she is not mentally well now. She passes her days in great difficulty and without work it is uncertain how she will pay off her debt. “I just want a supporting hand through which I can get back to my older life where everything was ok. But I cannot even get loans from financial institutions as they do not provide support for someone with no source of income. As I have previous experience in goat rearing, I am thankful for the goats, it will be really helpful for me. I can be self-reliant through this and start paying off my debts.” A smiling Meher expressed her feelings this way. Returnee migrant worker wishes to start a small business after getting medical support “I can speak but had to act like I am dumb, otherwise they would not have let me come to Bangladesh!” With these words Rashma, a migrant worker from Manikganj district’s Singair, broke her silence for the first time since her arrival in the country. They took her to an organization for support. She did not utter a single word on the road. But at midnight she finally opened up to the staff member. Rashma added with grief, “I am not mentally ok. I am very ill, can not eat or move properly. When I fell ill there, they used to leave me at the hospital. They did 10