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D.Net recruits the women and trains them for three months to use a computer, the internet, a printer and a camera. It arranges bank loans for the women to buy bicycles and equipment.

"This way we are providing jobs to jobless women and at the same time empowering villagers with critical information," said Ananya Raihan, D.Net's executive director.

The women - usually undergraduates from middle-class rural families - aren't doling out charity. Begum pays $2.40 for an hour of Skype time with her husband, who works in Saudi Arabia.