Harirampur, Manikganj to Muktar Hossain Char means a tract of land surrounded by water of ocean. People of living in the char area many times faces natural disasters such as flood and riverbank erosion. These disasters often wash away their homes, kill life and destroy their crops and other resources. However, the women of Harirampur […]
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By Biswajit Mandol, Gazi Imran and Bablu Juwarder Bangladesh’s south-west coastal region is most threatened by the negative effects of climate change and Shyamnagar Upazila of Satkhira district is among the most extremely affected areas. Natural disasters such as riverbank erosion, cyclones, salinity, floods and tides are common in the region. Due to natural disasters,
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Md. Shahidul Islam from Rajshahi If someone does good things and shares with others these good things are replicated and spreads around. People learns and tries to do by themselves to make difference in the society and state. Development works get accelerated when someone replicates the work in their areas. When people understand that it
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Roni Khan from Netrakona If you walk through or visit the Kalmakanda border in Netrakona, you may witness a new kind of ‘water struggle’ of the indigenous Garo communities. They have to collect water from the available stream, canals and rivers walking a long distance. The water harvesting technique of these communities might remind you
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By Silvanus Lamin 50 youths from different regions of Bangladesh expressed solidarity with the climate struggle of the communities in the coast while participating in a 4-day workshop arranged by BARCIK in Satkhira and visiting different climate affected villages of the coast. 50 youths from Rajshahi, Netrakona, Manikganj, Satkhira and Dhaka visited 6 villages of
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Shahinur Rahman from Manikganj in Singhai Morantali is a village in Hatipara Union of Manikganj Sadar Upazila. Swapan Kumar Roy is an ideal farmer of this village. His house is next to the main road of the village which is about one and a half acres of land. One’s could be surely dazzled seeing the
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By Silvanus Lamin BARCIK along with its associate organizations such as farmer, women, youth and occupational groups’ organizations and associations in 5 working areas (Dhaka, Netrakona, Satkhira, Rajshahi, Manikgonj) observed the international women’s day yesterday 8 March, 2023. The theme of this year’s international women’s day is DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality. People
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Fatima Akhter, Shyamnagar, Satkhira As far as the eyes goes there is nothing but shrimp enclosures, no vegetation, no agricultural cropland and even not a single drop of fresh water to drink both for human and animals is available. Proliferation of unplanned shrimp farming restrained from planting crops made life unsustainable and almost impossible
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Mukundo Gosh, Shyamnagar, Satkhirta Fifty eight-year-old Morsheda Begum is a mother of one son and a daughter lives in a remote village Gabura of Shyamnagar upazila under Satkhra district of Bangladesh. In order to get to Gabura one has to cross the river Kholpetua by boat which is located next to the Sundarbans, the
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Fatima Akhter, Shyamnagar, Satkhira It is not a story of merely struggling through poverty, nor is it a tale of accumulating material possessions. Amola’s (61) story is sewn with sufferings, painted with plights, saturated with sorrows and soaked in tears. It’s a story of smile of victory against a life marked by excruciating poverty. It
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