There is a saying, “Courage means facing the challenges in the whirlwind of a lot of questions of that you have no answer and not taking the escape route to avoid”. The family life of Soniya Akter demonstrates the realization of the saying. Soniya Akter is one of the regular clients of the Health Centre service of Ghashful CHP. She is 23 years old and has two sons. Her husband is a truck driver. She got to know about Ghashful’s Health Centre through Rufiya Begum, a regular TBA of Ghashful. She got acquainted with Ghashful when she became pregnant to give birth to her first son. She used to come for regular checkups and consultancy. Her first delivery was done through normal delivery with the help of Ghashful’s TBA. Later on, she came to the Health center regularly to vaccinate her son and for regular checkups. In the meantime, she got to know about the family planning program of Ghashful that helped her to know more about the security and advancement of having a proper small family.
She appeared in several sessions on a regular basis to get more of the advice and tips about family planning and necessary health care. Her husband supported her to come to a decision about having two children, let it be of any gender. She conceived for the second time and gave birth to a lovely son again. Soniya and her husband became happy and satisfied even though they had a wish of having a girl child for the second time. Ghashful’s Health Centre made them come to a strong decision of not taking any more child. In this way, Ghashful played a significant role to keep their small family a meaningful one through providing constant services and consultancies on the journey of their family life.