Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today inaugurated a special lounge for the country’s migrant workers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) here.
“Our migrant workers are nation builders. In the July-August mass uprising, they played a big role. We will always be grateful to them,” he said.
“We believe this lounge will make their travel easy,” he added.
Bangladeshi migrant workers will have a place to rest and receive free refreshments at the Probashi Lounge, the first of its type at the Dhaka airport.
Senior representatives of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and Prof. Asif Nazrul, Adviser on Law and Expatriate Welfare, attended the event.
The law counsel gave heartfelt homage to the millions of Bangladeshi diasporans and migrant workers who have repeatedly given their lives for their country.
The UN organisation financed the lounge in an attempt to help the Bangladeshi migrant workers, according to Fathima Nusrath Ghazzali, deputy chief of the IOM mission to Bangladesh.
“This is an initiative of the honourable Chief Adviser. We are happy to support this initiative,” she said, adding that the IOM is also sponsoring nearly 100 volunteers to help the migrants at the airport.
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