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FRIDAY, MAY 09, 2025
Son fulfills mother’s dream of flying soon after getting job

Bangladesh

TBS Report
01 January, 2021, 06:40 pm
Last modified: 02 January, 2021, 10:59 am

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Son fulfills mother’s dream of flying soon after getting job

He first earned a living rickshaw-pulling at the age of 10

TBS Report
01 January, 2021, 06:40 pm
Last modified: 02 January, 2021, 10:59 am
Shipon Roy and his mother Giru Bala. Photo: Prothom Alo
Shipon Roy and his mother Giru Bala. Photo: Prothom Alo

A young man has come forward to fulfill his mother's dream of flying after accepting a government job he was recently offered. 

Shipon Roi, a graduate of Chittagong University's Bangla Department, boarded his mother on a plane for a journey from Dhaka to Chattagram, reports Prothom Alo.

Shipon first earned a living at the age of 10 by rickshaw-pulling. He went house to house to sell oil, crabs, vegetables, fish, and dried fish. Later, he worked at other people's houses, worked as a hairdresser, sold sticks made of wood and cow dung and cultivated crops leasing land. This time he also fulfilled his mother's dream.

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Shipon's mother Giru Bala Roy has raised her children by working on other people's land and at houses. One of Shipon's brothers worked as a hairdresser, another brother drives a rickshaw. In fact, they have no land of their own. His father, Swapna Roy, used to work as a day labourer on people's land but died long ago. Meanwhile, one of Shipon's sisters is married.

Shipon wanted to be a teacher. He has been recommended to join a government secondary school in a result (special non-cadre) published by the Public Service Commission on Tuesday. 

Giru Bala was a little scared boarding on the plane for the first time in her life, but there was a smile on her face, according to her son. 

Shipon Roy told Prothom Alo on the telephone, "I have never seen my mother smile like that. On the one hand, I am going to be a teacher, on the other hand, the fulfilment of the dream of boarding a plane – all in all, I do not have the language to say the satisfaction I saw in my mother's eyes. I have never seen my mother smile like this in my whole life."

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