From Survivor to Teacher, Chameli Rebuilt Her Life Through Digital Skills

On 21 April 2023, an electrical fire tore through Chameli Yasmin's home in Hafiznagar, Khulna, burning her large portion of stomach, scarring the veins in her left hand, and damaged her right hand completely. She was 25. Her husband earned 8,000 taka a month at a small drug store barely enough for rent, let alone recovery.

For a long time, that was the shape of her life: pain, a stretched household budget, and a body that no longer worked the way it used to.

Then she attended a linkage-building session under World Vision Bangladesh's Khulna Shohor Area Development Programme, where she learned about technical and vocational training opportunities connected to Asia Technical Training Center in Khalishpur. She sat the entrance exam and was placed in the Computer Operation track. The center was far from home, and travel was hard on her body, so World Vision covered her transport costs, making it possible for her to attend at all.

She trained from January to April 2026, learning typing, MS tools, email, and basic design tools skills built almost entirely with her left hand.

Now Chameli teaches four students, from grades one through ten, out of her own home. She walks them through keyboards, spreadsheets, painting software, patiently, the way someone teaches who remembers what it felt like to not know.

"I always teach my students to never stop," she says. "Life may bring many challenges, but never surrender to them. Trust, and wait for the right time."

Her earnings are modest, but they matter, a real contribution to a household that once ran on her husband's salary alone. Her family stood by her through the shock of the accident, and she credits them, along with her training, for the ground she's regained.

Her next goal is bigger: to grow her small home classroom into a proper training center, where people see her skill before they see her scars.