What’s your cash price? A collection from the entrance line of the price of residing disaster, the place individuals who have been hit exhausting share their month-to-month bills.
Title: Dipanwita Ridi
Age: 37
Occupation: Founder and chairperson of Animal Lovers of Bangladesh (ALB) animal shelter, the nation’s first animal adoption shelter for strays; freelance content material author and translator.
Lives with: Two rescue cats – a 13-year-old feminine referred to as Pitu and a six-month-old male named Pouch. Numerous stray cats – a feminine and 5 males – come and go as they please.
Lives in: A one-bedroom condominium in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Month-to-month family earnings: In August, Dipanwita earned 43,591 Bangladeshi taka ($390) from her freelance work.
The common month-to-month earnings is 7,614 taka ($68) nationwide and 10,951 taka ($98) in city areas, based on the 2022 Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Family Earnings and Expenditure Survey.
Whole bills for the month: 30,000 taka ($269) spent on hire, utilities, meals and transport to attend a birthday and a marriage.
