August 6, 2010
Sharonkhola,Bagerhat is a severely Cyclone SIDR,2007 affected area of the country. An indigenous community named Cobbler is living at the river side of the Bhaloshor River which became very furious during the time of cyclone. As they are lower cast people so normally general people don’t come to them and mix with them. They were seriously affected by the cyclone SIDR but they don’t got any house from any donor because they have no land for their own. Each and every family is a very low income family. Their husbands are repair shows which are reducing day by day. Female members of the family are trying to earn some money by sewing warm cloths and doing work outside. Although their income is small but they were happy with their small income. Read more...
June 30, 2010
Sujan-Son of Josna begum is suffering for skin diseases by consuming contaminated water.
Gabura, Satkhira, Bangladesh: On 23rd May 2009 cyclone Aila hit the south –west part of the country. Since then one year passed, but the misery and sufferings of climate victims is still continuing. Thousands of victims are still staying on roadsides and broken embankment. Crises of drinking water became a major issue of their living. Due toscaecity of safe water many people are drinking contaminated water and suffering from water born diseases. Read more...
March 24, 2010
Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh: Farmers had begun to thresh their paddy in Nachol by mid-May. The harvest, they said was good and the dry weather had in fact been helpful for the boro paddy. But the dry midday heat was stifling and unlike the humid weather typical of most of the other areas of Bangladesh in general. The dry weather had persisted for long as many a farmer agreed. The land is all hard now and without a few days of rain we will not be able to plant anyway, says Naresh Mardi, , a 60 years old farmer from Benipur, Nachol, Chapainawabganj and also a member of an ethnic minority group. He adds laughingly, And if it rained the boro harvest might not have been this good. Either way it will be bad. But now that we have cut the paddy from the fields, we will be hoping for some rain soon. Read more...
March 8, 2010
The yard used to be full with chickens running about. Masuma Khatun, a 50 years old Farmer from Shimna, Dinajpur said she had about 60 or 70 chickens as she fried corn and fresh rice as snacks for all the labourers working on their fields. ‘It was not the flu they were talking about. It was just a few days ago. I think the heat really got to them. Even inside the house, it was hot.’ The earthen walls in these parts are thick and typically known for remaining cool during the hot summer months. ‘It seems like it has not rained for a long time, except the other day we had stones-meaning hailstorm.’ Read more...
February 26, 2010
‘BARAIYA teraiya bodlasey,’ says Sameda Banu, 42 years old Farmer of Baraura, Moulvibazar, Bangladesh, referring to the local terms for the heavy rainfall they expect on the 12th and 13th days of the Bengali month of Baishakh (towards the end of April). She indicates that rainfall has drastically reduced in the recent years. ‘Due to the shortage of rains our crop production has suffered a lot. We have also had a smaller harvest than the previous years for the same reason,’ Sameda says. Read more...
