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This mother, who worked so hard to educate her sons, received the government’s award for the most successful mother
Marina Besra has endured so much hardship in a family of poverty. She has also worked on other people’s land to keep her sons’ education going. All three of her sons are now established. This year she has received the government’s Most Successful Mother award. Rajiul Islam tells the story of this mother from Birampur, Dinajpur
This mother, who worked so hard to educate her sons, received the government’s award for the most successful mother

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This mother has endured so much hardship in a family of poverty, she has received the government’s Most Successful Mother award
Marina Besra has endured so much hardship in a family of poverty. She has also worked on other people’s land to keep her sons’ education going. All three of her sons are now established. This year she has received the government’s Most Successful Mother award. This mother from Birampur, Dinajpur, is telling the story of Rajiul Islam
Published: 05 July 2025, 16:57
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Marina Besra’s three sons are now establishedPhoto: Prothom Alo
‘It has been difficult, I have been without food, but I have not stopped my sons’ education. All three sons are now working. I am doing well with my grandchildren.’
The fact that she is doing well is evident in the smile on Marina Besra’s face. Her eldest son Mathias Murmu is a habilder in the Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB). Her eldest son Manuel Murmu works in a private organization in Dhaka. And her younger son Samuel Murmu is a senior assistant secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In recognition of raising her children to be competent, this 67-year-old woman received the award for the most successful mother at the ‘Indomitable Women’s Award-2025’ on the occasion of International Women’s Day last March. Everyone in the area now respects her.
But what a difficult life she had spent in her early life. Marina herself spoke about those days, ‘I used to earn 20 to 30 taka daily by working on people’s land. We had a family of five, including three sons. Their father worked as a mason (mason). Sometimes the elder son would also go to work with his father. That’s how I raised my sons.’
Two years after the country’s independence, Marks Murmu of Desma village in Birampur married Marina Besra of Parbatipur and brought her home. When she came to her husband’s house, the teenage Marina, who had been raised in her father’s house, found a different life. Marks Murmu did not have any cultivated land. There was only a hut to rest her head on. Whatever her husband earned at the end of the day as a mason, there was always tension in the family. In the hope of additional income, Marina eventually started working as a daily wage worker with other women in the village.
In this couple’s family of poverty and tension, three sons were born one after the other. Even though they themselves suffered, they wanted their three children to be able to overcome their suffering by studying. So they admitted them to school. The children also understood the suffering of their parents. They won everyone’s hearts with their studies, sports and behavior in school.
