Live-in-field experience is a unique course offered to the students of the Independent University Bangladesh. The basic thought behind the LFE coursework is to introduce students to the idea of the rural life and its related problems. It also helps us to understand the rural people, their sufferings, their emotions and their patience.

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Independent University,Bangladesh
Live-in-Field Experience (LFE)
Section-08
Submitted To:
Mrs.Tasmia Farzana
Lecturer of School of
life science
Ms. Afreen Zaman
Khan
Lecturer of School of life
science
Submitted By:

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Table of Content
Content Page no
Letter of Transmittal 4
Acknowledgement 5
Introduction 6
Objective of LFE 7
Methodology 9
Diary of 12 Days 10-22
Survey Experience 24-25
Experience and opinion about roommate and pair-member 26
Most memorable incident 27
Conclusion 28

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
13th May,2017
To
Mrs. Tasmia Farzana,
Ms. Afreen Zaman Khan,
Lecturers, School of life science. Independent University, Bangladesh. Basundhara, Dhaka-1229.
Subject: For presenting the report of Live in Field Experience (LFE)
Dear Respected Faculties,
With due regard and humble accommodation, I am TahminaBinta Akter Trisha particularly
satisfied to present the investigate Live-in Field Experience (LFE) which was performed by me
and my pair (pair group:02) in Jessore sorted out by Independent University, Bangladesh, and
RRF Tarc,Jessore and furthermore which was held from 23rd April to fourth may, 2017.
I have performed the review in Vatpara Village, Jessore.At the starting, It was an extremely
difficult undertaking to me, however I was truly charmed and find intriguing when the villagers
reaction my passageway to their homes with no awful thinking and requesting that I sit. I have
attempted my best to take the information accurately as could be allowed.
While finishing the LFE201 course and making this report I have accomplished lots of incredible
experience and essential task, I have adapted loads of new lessons through this LFE. I have
invested a superb energy at RRF, Jessore.This trip has enabled me to understand the village
people and their life style better, enriched our knowledge on social classifications and different
social aspects.
This report is a basic piece of this course and the review, so I have put my sincere to give this
report a satisfactory shape and make it as useful and exact as conceivable with the expectation,
that it is ready to satisfy your desires.
Sincerely yours,

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to our Honorable Vice Chancellor, Professor . M
Omar Rahman for granting us the opportunity to be a part of LFE201 course which is not limited
to a course, but a life time experience indeed.
Live-in-field experience is a unique course offered to the students of the Independent University
Bangladesh. The basic thought behind the LFE coursework is to introduce students to the idea of
the rural life and its related problems. It also helps us to understand the rural people, their
sufferings, their emotions and their patience.
First of all, for this remarkable course I would like to thanks our Coordinator Mrs.Tasmia
Farzana. Her supervision and inspiration will be remembered always. The instruction given by
her was very effective and encouraged all of us to carry out the fieldwork.
Then, I would like to show my gratitude towards our respected and amazing faculties they
supported us in each and every aspect throughout the whole LFE201 course. Without their
warmth support and encouragement this LFE trip would be so monotonous. For their friendliness
and understanding personalities we upheld the trip without our parents and families.
I would also like to thanks all of the monitors (NasrinSapna, Bayzid Ahmed Shakhar,SufiBayzid
and TaskinTaosib) they all supported us in almost every kind of difficulties like brothers and
sister. Whether it was about the survey input or our personal problem, they were always there to
help us out in any matter as like a family.
Moreover, I would like to thanks all my LFE mates and especially my roommates and my pair .
Without all this caring, funny, crazy and entertaining people my LFE journey wouldn’t be that
much memorable.
After that I would like to thank all the village peoples who helped us and provided valuable
information to us which made our field work lot easier. Without their cooperation it could be so
hard for me and my pair to complete field work properly. And also thank village peoples for
teaching us about life, struggles of life and how to overcome those struggles in life and teaching
us something about the actual lifestyle of human being.
Lastly, I would like to thanks all the stuff members (specially khaled uncle ) and guides of RRF
Tarc,Jessore. They gave their sincere effort in order to fulfill all our needs. If we wouldn’t have
had such facilities, we would not have been able enjoy the precious experiences of LFE.

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INTRODUCTION
Bangladesh is a creating nation so there are numerous contrasts amongst urban and provincial
territories in light of the fact that the country region is not as create as the urban zone. The rustic
individuals don't have the open doors as the urban individuals in the distinctive segment. Floods
and cyclones frequently cause severe damage to lives and livelihoods, especially to the poor
women who remain particularly vulnerable.
The Empowerment and Livelihood Improvement
Project, known as NutonJibon project, aims to
improve the livelihoods and quality of life of the
rural poor, especially the poorest and most
vulnerable households. There for the investigation
of the rustic zone is vital to know the requirements
and needs of the town individuals.
The (LFE) life is giving us the opportunity to be
part of something completely different from
working life. We were taken to Jessore to conduct
our survey. Me and My pair were assigned
belonging to the village of Vatpara.
Studies on Vatpara village are a reflection of the
rural Bangladesh. Through this report I tried to
analyze the village area, its social change till date,
economic condition, including agriculture, health
and sanitation, environmental, educational.
Vatpara is a small developing village. The village
economic is most of dependent on agriculture and
land business. The village is enlightened by the light
of education. Especially the female education and
empowerment, decreasing rates of early marriage,
development in communication system is the most optimistic sign of this village. But the
darkness of population growth, dowry, superstitions and pollution are awkward the possible
greater rate of development. But we hope to see a developed new vatpara in the coming days.
So LFE bridges the gap between our historical knowledge and the present, rural and urban life
through an empirical study of the roots of our culture.

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OBJECTIVES OF LFE
It is basic to us that a man without a point resembles a ship without a rudder in the sea. The
principle target of IUB to direct LFE is to make comfortable the understudies with the rustic life
and give some individual genuine and field involvement to them. To accomplish the purpose of
LFE, IUB wanted to lead an examination by its understudies in some provincial area. The IUB
understudies must be made mindful of this circumstance, so they started to consider approaches
to take care of issues and along these lines open up open doors for further social and monetary
development. And likewise iub tech to how to persuade individuals with understudies functions.
The general targets of the LFE are expressed beneath:
 To familiarize urban IUB students with the rural communities as almost 75% of the total
population of Bangladesh live in villages.
 To learn about the roots of our village culture and tradition.
 To know how they are surviving and life style of village’s people.
 To study the awareness of the people regarding education of the designated village.
 To understand the people’s psychology, perception of a good living and expectations
from life.
 To find the level of poverty of the village
 To learn about the social economy condition of the village people.
 To learn House hold information about the demography and the social status of all
members of family)
 To find out the literacy rate and level of education of the villagers.
 The income of households from different sources.
 The expenditure of different households.

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LFE is an experience based course for the students where they learn about social research,
quantitative and qualitative evaluation, fact-findings, observation and report writing and of
course about rural people and their socio-economic condition. The main purpose of LFE is to
create awareness among the students about the reality of the socio-economic structure of the
rural area of Bangladesh. Most of the people of Bangladesh live in villages.Ultimately, break
down the connection place of surplus gathering and defect gathering of individuals in the country
territory i.e. Hat structure of the Rural range and other related issues.

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METHODOLOGY
The report depends on the correspondences barriers, education, facilities, and the contrasts
amongst urban and country area, their wellbeing conditions, their income, their family status,
their way of life and numerous more information.
For researching or collecting the information for LFE course, Independent University,
Bangladesh (IUB) follows two ways, one is digital way (via internet) and another is analogue
way. We have done our survey via questionnaires, there were two questionnaires one is for
household and other one is for adults. Firstly we divided the village into different parts and we
selected the parts by own self for visiting the household. And also we input their data in our
questionnaire. For having their information’s we were given software where these inquiries are
showed up and by utilizing that we took the information.
 Economic condition
 Health condition-
 Environment condition
 Social condition
 Educational condition

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DIARY OF 12 DAYS
Though I can tell that those 12 days was a great time to me.this was my life time experience
without my family. I have got many friends, 2sweet teacher and 3 brothers and 1 cute sister.
Day 1:
Dhaka to jessore, it took 6 hours, these 6 hours my times good. We were singing and sufi
brotherwas playing guitar .7pm we had reached to jessore RRF, tarc.Sapna sis was gave me room
keys .when I got into my room, after few minutes I had meet my room, she is good friend. We
had got freshen out and went into for snacks and after snacks we had session. Teacher told us
many rules and time. After dinner we went our room for good night sleep
This picture’s was token on where we freshen up.
Monitors and faculties are giving us instructions and routine.
DAY 2:
7:30 a.m. we had our breakfast and ready to go to our survey. Taking few minutes session .We
weredivided into 30 group and 3 villages.
Group 1-11:Vatpara
Group 12-21: Sripoddi

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Group 22-30: Kachua
My group number was 02.
Group:2
52326 MamtazGazi Saira begum Moddo-para 01936826854
52327 Tahersarder Rokeya begum Moddo-para 01930359735
52328 Zakirsardar Parul begum Moddo-para 01783991890
52329 Samsulgazi Anuara begum Moddo-para 01737548530
52376 Shelimhossen ShamsunNahar moddopara 01742175640
52377 Wajed Ali Gazi Mahmuda moddopara 01951443264
52181 Md. MijanurRahman Rahima Begum Vhatpara 01734646259
52182 Md. Golamali Rahima Begum Vhatpara 01735949123
52183 Taiburrahman hasina Vhatpara
52184 Md. Abdul Jalil Selinakhatun Vhatpara 01736085734
And we were going to vatpara.as because this was our 1st day we were told to find 10
houses.after9:30 a.m. suddenly the storm came. I was so scared because there’s a lot of house’s
tin and tree were flying.my pair told me come down and we got sheltered on our one the House
Hold ID. This people was so grateful to me .I was Talking to aunty .she was so tense about
something and I asked her why she was so tense. She told me because of storm there dhan ,khor
was destroying and that’s why she was tense. Here I had many experience .village people were
so nice to us and here I was thinking simple storm was destroying everything.
12:30 p.m.Bayzid bro came to get us .1:30 p.m. we had reached and lunch was 2 p.m. Getting
freshen up and lunch .after lunch I was gossiping with my roommate. Some few moments we

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were heard that we had to complete 2 HHID input on survey input .so we were busy to give 2
HHID input and 5 p.m we were taking snacks and took preparation for the session and after
some fun time spend and 8:30 p.m. We were went for our dinner. After our finished our
dinner.Went to common space and spend some leisure time. Yeah I can say that night moments
was very special to us .all teacher and monitors came to common space and gossiping with us. At
2am, I was so sleepy, so I went out my room and take ready to sleep.
Day 3:
After finishing our breakfast we had reached our center point vatpara.3rd day taskin monitor
came with us. Without monitor we couldn’t understand what to do. by helping of taskin brother
we were easily to fill our 1st House hold ID.As because it was 1st input that’s why it was taking 1
hour to input and complete the house hold id. Completing 1 id input .Me and my pain went to
take another house hold data collection. When we went back to our center point I saw my
honorable faculties (Tasmia miss and Afreen miss) came to visit us.
This was our center point for vatpara group where we took rest and given data input
So Tasmia miss was playing with this goat and I captures this.This was so sweet image for this
day. after this we were back to our home (RRfTarc).and freshen up and 2 pm we took lunch.
after 2 pm I was so sleepily that’s why I took some nap .4 pm I went outside and lots of
gossiping with my friends .though Before the LFE I didn’t know anyone except my pair so I
didn’t have no group. After the snacks I was ready for session .I was called it ‘THE RESET

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Time’.7 pm all the monitor ready to give us reset .my 1st input showed by sufi monitor and for
server problem I get reset and have fill the input by night. So I and my pair were so upset and
busy to complete the HHID input. After 9pm we were complete our input and took dinner.
Tough day for me. So I took the good night sleep at 11 p.m.
DAY 4 & 5:
Morning 7 am. I was so nervous because I and my pair have input 2 HHID input on 12 pm. In
day 4 & 5 this were so hard for me to find the house and input that house on 12 pm.It was so
tough because my House hold was so far away from center point .and those days were so hot
days I think. Some times I was arguing with my pair. But last time we managed our anger and do
the survey.

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In Hot summer day .finally I enjoyed the survey time. Came back RRf Tarc and freshen up.
Taking lunch and few minutes snap went outside and playing with my friends.
On RRF tarc there’s a veranda we all girls were gone to there and I saw our sweet faculties were
there and also Tasmia miss is so sweet faculty. Both miss were so friendly with us.
Session time we had lots of fun. Monitor’s were giving punishment to us.
DAY 6:
On 6th day, jumar day.We were same work to do.1st.I had to collect 3 house hold information on
that Friday.after came back to our RRF tarc ,boys were went mosque for prayer. That day ww
have to put data input exact 5pm.after the lunch we were busy to give data
input .and after the session we were having fun by watching bangle movie
and also our sweet brother was gived fabulous speech and also tech.We were
become pretty surprised by his presentation.

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After the game we saw a movie named “Molla Barir Bou”.
And also after some fun time we get our LFE T-shirt>love the design of the T shirt .and we were
so excited about to get the T shirt .when I see the t shirt I remember every moment of the LFE
.And it makes me cry. Really it was great moment of my life.
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Day 7:
All day was fun
S.M.SultanHouse
We went to S.M.Sultan house and binodia park.this was some awesome moment in my life.On
S.M sultan house I saw many wonderful painting and art.And also S.M. Sultan ‘s painiting brush
and his dress etc.

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This was some pictures of his art and used by him.
So I don’t talk too much with teacher because of afraid but in lfe 2 sweet miss was so friendly
that change me into extrovert
On that day we also visited the Binodiya Park:
Day 8:

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30th April this was our registration day. We all know this day will be so painful and also tension
able day.so at 9:30 we all were busy to register our course .but unfortunately
I couldn’t registered my course because of server problem. But thank to Ms
Afreen miss .she registration my course without her I couldn’t get my
course.after the registration we all are so excited to go beanpole because of
lots of shopping. I bought so many chocolate for miss and my family and also me
This place is beanpole border and captured by me.
Day 9:
So 9th day I and my pair were have to give our presentation. Me and my and also another pair
topic was village shop food product market analysis.as were at vatpara village we didn’t get any
village shop analysis. So we worked on near the shop. Researchingabout village food product we
get many invalid product that will so harmful for the village people.

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So this picture captured by my pair. All this pictures are realand we know that invalid food is
very harmful to us. It was quiet great experience for me. When we were doing this research, I
think myself as a detective.
On that day honorable tasmia miss and afreen miss gave us a huge surprise.Literally we were so
much surprised because madam hired a team of Baul to hear Traditional BengaliSong. Which
from S.M sultan relative.
Day 10:
10th day all we were excited a for this day which we called Gala Night.We the all students were
tried to perform and took group photos. Different students performed different things. I just
enjoyed this days so much. I am sharing some beautiful moments of day 10 (Gala Night):

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So I was participate in drama and fashion show.I don’t know my drama was good or not but I
enjoyed it so much.this experience was my life time experience in my life
And also My adorable brother (taskin monitor) told me to work with them and I didn’t care about
my dress and came to help him
That day was so hard working and also enjoyable in my life.

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Day-11:
It was the last day, we visiting village of jessore on that day, we gone to visit Bhairab River but,
after seeing this river we felt depressed because we were thinking that it will be big river but,
after going there we saw that it is like a pond. However, we enjoyed by taking pictures in there.
Day-12:This day is the most painful day in 12 days because; on this day we came back from
RRF, TARC. I was like, I don’t want to go back from jessore but we had to come from there. We
wake up early in the morning and took breakfast then at 8:00a.m. we started our journey toward
Dhaka and reached Dhaka approximately 7:00pm.

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SURVEY EXPERIENCE
We surveyed 10 families and member, here are some outlook
• House made of mud & fence and rooftop were made of tin.
• Household head were man.
• Nuclear, polygamy family.
• Own house.
• 45% members are literate
• They have pet domestic animals like cows, pigeons, hens.
This was our 10 house of HHID.
Health :
Believer of superstitious are one of the common thing. If they fell sick kobiraj and pharmacist
can heal them according to those people.

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Health Information :
• Common diseases are gastric, chest pain ,migraine, fever.
• Few people are suffering from skin diseases.
• Children are suffering from Helminthes due to poor sanitary and it happens most of the
time in summer and rainy season.
Public Health Care :
• They seek help from compounder when they fell sick.
• There is one private health care center and it provides free treatment to the villagers every
Saturday.
• They also visit kobiraj for treatment.
• They take Homeopathic.
Sanitation:
• Unhygienic toilet.
• Most of the toilet located outside or behind the house.
• In toilet, there is no water supply.
• They used tube well for their daily needs.
• Bathroom are made of woods, fence,& tin.
EXPERIENCE ABOUT ROOMMATE AND PAIR-MEMBER
Roommate:
So my roommate is so sweet. I’d never stay in one room with another person. This was my 1st
experience.

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So my roommate name is Afsana Flora. She is so helpful and also funny. When I came back to
my room she started her day storytelling and with her acting and also drama. After that my whole
tiredness gone. She always supported me to do my work perfectly always she brings me to the
dining and session room for food and viva. We used to saw TV together. Her behavior was
always nice, cute and kind to me.
pair-member:
My pair member name is Ibrahim khalil, he is my best friend as well. In 12 days he was always
take care for me as like my family. Survey time he supported me all the time. As we all know he
is so funny so I had never bored for him. He called me or brought me to the dining and session
room for food and viva.
He gave me lots of mental support to me when I get tensed. He solved my every problem. When
we were gone to village for collecting data he always took care of mine and also helped to get all
data correctly. He is responsible person to me. He always helped everyone and also he is
extrovert person.
MOST MEMORABLE INCIDENT
I had no specific incident in LFE tour because I had lots of memorable incidents.1st of all I can
say that I get 2 sweet miss who always so friendly to me, a big sister and lots of friend.1st Most
memorable incident is that I had to do different types of drama like “Noakhali wife and
Barishailla husband” and also “New vs. Old”. This was so funny experience for me. And also
vatpara group dance though we had no practice.2nd most memorable incident is that I’d get the
vatpara best pair award’s and we get one towel though my took it.3rd most memorable incident is
receptionist Khaled uncle. He loved me a lot, when I was ready to came back in Dhaka, he was
gave my pair 2 Bel and told me that is for you and your pair member and come back again soon
mama. After came back in Dhaka also called me in my phone and told that “ammu tumi ki
pouchaiso?” and I was like crying to hear that.

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4th most memorable incident is on the bus on 2 monitor was acting like a bus conductor and
Bayzid brother took money and also their sunglasses from everyone though he gave back and
taskin brother dance was so awesome.5th most memorable incident is I have got a sweet sister
(Nasrin Sapna) , she treated me like her little sister
CONCLUSION:
In the end of my report I would like to say that, LFE201 course has taught us lots of issue that
will be valuable in our practical life. Those 12 days spent for LFE course was worth learning
various things, which is not possible to learn by text books only.
By this course we knew about rural people, their life style, how they live, their needs and wants,
their works etc. These all things made us realized that life is not easy at all. Those village peoples
are struggling every day to earn their livelihood whereas we are living a luxurious and
comfortable life. Most of them are deprived from education and modern use of technology.
However, we hope that the survey that has been going on for several years will help those people
someday.
In the end, I would again like to thank all respected faculties and monitors.