What’s your money worth? A series from the doorway line of the worth of dwelling catastrophe, the place people who’ve been hit laborious share their month-to-month payments.
Establish: 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 materials creator and translator.
Lives with: Two rescue cats – a 13-year-old female known as Pitu and a six-month-old male named Pouch. Quite a few stray cats – a female and 5 males – come and go as they please.
Lives in: A one-bedroom condominium in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Month-to-month household earnings: In August, Dipanwita earned 43,591 Bangladeshi taka ($390) from her freelance work.
The widespread month-to-month earnings is 7,614 taka ($68) nationwide and 10,951 taka ($98) in metropolis areas, primarily based on the 2022 Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Household Earnings and Expenditure Survey.
Full payments for the month: 30,000 taka ($269) spent on rent, utilities, meals and transport to attend a birthday and a wedding.
