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GABURA UNION, SATKHIRA
Children walk long distances to get drinking water
supplied by non-governmental organisations.03
GABURA, SATKHIRA
A boy gets his hair cut by his brother.
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GABURA UNION, SATKHIRA
Abdul Hakim Gazi and many elders don’t have
access to medical facilities in Gabura Union.
A local pharmacy generally prescribes medicines.
People often go to voodoo practitioners to seek
relief from their ailments.
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GABURA UNION, SATKHIRA
Musa Gazi has various skin problems and has
suffered multiple occurrences of diarrhoea.
Sea level rise may increase the rate of various
types of health hazards like diarrhoea, cholera
and other diseases that are common in coastal
areas of Bangladesh. Vibrio cholerae, the
bacterium that causes cholera, survives longer
in coastal areas because higher salinity levels
allow it to breed more readily.07
MUNSHIGONJ, SATKHIRA
In general, women are responsible for household
work. The impact of climate change around
coastline areas of Bangladesh is making women
more vulnerable to poverty.06
MERADIYA SLUM, DHAKA
A group of rickshaw pullers from Shyamnagar,
Satkhira district, have a bath in Dhaka, the capital
of Bangladesh.1102
GABURA UNION, SATKHIRA
Much of the flood damage caused by Cyclone
Aila was to the water and sanitation systems
on which the Bangladeshi villagers depend.
Floodwaters seeped into supplies used for
drinking and washing, and latrines were washed
away, allowing raw sewage to increase the threat
of diseases such as cholera. This young boy
in Gabura, one of the worst-hit villages in the
Satkhira district, has access to safe drinking
water – but has to cross a river to collect it.
Livelihoods have also been lost: Seawater and
fresh water contaminated with sewage and salt
water continue to flood farmlands at high tide
two years on, making it impossible to grow crops.