
The story of brave entrepreneur Anjuman, who overcame cancer
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- Name: Anjuman Parveen
- Born: 1995
- Study: diploma in Interior Design
- Profession: Entrepreneur
- Disease: Thyroid cancer
- Current Status: Fighting
🌹 The Unbroken Thread: The Triumph of Anjuman
The Main Character: Anjuman Parveen
Meet Anjuman Parveen, a soul born with an artistic heart and an iron will. Anjuman represents the rare type of person who refuses to merely exist within the confines of fate. She is a warrior who resolved, against crushing odds, to conquer her destiny. Her entire life—a continuous, searing struggle against poverty, the dismissiveness of a patriarchal society, and the ultimate physical betrayal of cancer—is underpinned by an indomitable, fiery desire to be self-sufficient. Today, she is the successful founder of a thriving enterprise, having woven purpose and prosperity out of loss and pain.
The Story Begins: The Inheritance of Dreams and Dust (2002)
Anjuman was born into a world colored by culture; her late father, a painter, had dreamt of his daughter mastering the fine arts. But this vibrant world shattered in 2002. Anjuman was only in class seven when her father passed, leaving behind nothing but scattered dreams.
The loss was not just emotional; it was a plunge into immediate, desperate poverty. “After my father died,” Anjuman recalled, the agony still fresh, “we four siblings and my mother were adrift in an ocean of trouble. Life taught us the harsh, unforgiving meaning of poverty.”
This early hardship carved a profound determination into her spirit. By 2005, driven by necessity, Anjuman married her groom, Maksudur Rahman, before completing her basic schooling. But marriage was not a surrender; it was a strategic alliance. She looked at her dependent life and felt a deep sting to her self-respect. She resolved that to live with true dignity, she must study and stand on her own feet. With her husband’s encouragement, she began a tireless, simultaneous pursuit of education—all while tutoring to pay her own way. Her individuality was the cost she refused to pay.
The Timeline of Trials: From Diagnosis to Determination
(Age ~12)
Father dies. The family is instantly plunged into severe poverty.
Victim of Child Marriage
Marries before completing SSC; begins relentless self-funded study for personal dignity.
Become an Interior Designer
Completes her four-year diploma in Interior Design, securing professional skills.
Try to Grab Her Success star
Secures an interior design job and welcomes her child—a moment of fleeting happiness and stability.
The First Strom
The storm hits. After inexplicable weight changes and debilitating weakness, she is diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
The Battle begins
Early 2013 - Mid 2014: The long, agonizing battle begins. Confined to bed, experiencing pain "impossible to express," her world becomes a terrifying loop: Doctor, Hospital, Medicine, Report.
During Illness
Unable to sleep through the pain, Anjuman finds solace on her computer. She channels her focus into an online hobby page, Prajapati Boutiques, beginning her first tentative steps into business.
"If I die, my child's world darkens"
Driven by the fierce, primal thought, "If I die, my child's world darkens," she chooses to live by working. She undertakes intensive, back-to-back vocational training in dress making, block/batik, leather goods, and fashion design.
Anjuman's Variety
Launches Anjuman's Variety from her home, using only two borrowed and self-owned sewing machines, and purchasing cheap, unused raw materials.
Finish the Story: The Unbroken Thread of Identity
The fight was far from over. Anjuman faced a daily gauntlet as a female entrepreneur. When she went to the Bangshal market to buy raw materials, she was met not with respect, but with cold, humiliating glares and attempts to embarrass her—the routine contempt of a patriarchal world. She bore the slights, transforming the raw, painful emotion of humiliation into the fuel for her resolve.
“A girl has to face all that and move forward,” she firmly states. For Anjuman, self-reliance became the only shield, the only path to a life where she was not defined by a man, but by her own merit.
Anjuman Parveen is still fighting the cancer, but her will is stronger than any disease. Her small, defiant beginnings in her home have blossomed into a significant enterprise, Anjuman’s Variety, located in Shekhertek. It now produces over seventy different products and, most importantly, provides employment to forty-two full-time staff and numerous floating workers.
Her story is a living, breathing challenge to the notion of surrender. Anjuman’s fierce struggle—from the tears of a poor orphan to the dignity of a job creator—is the ultimate victory. She proved that when a person refuses to let go of the reins, even the worst storm can be navigated, turning personal pain into a powerful, inspiring legacy.

