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Flood, Sonatoni Charland of Jamuna, Shahjadpur

19Aug

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River & Floods

Flood, Sonatoni Charland of Jamuna, Shahjadpur

UBINIG Natural Calamity is their regular companion; whenever there is a slight ray of hope, there is also a dark cloud nearby, this is the scenario of the people of 13 villages of Sonatoni union, living in the middle of Jamuna river, Shahjadpur Upizala of Sirajgonj district. Flood drought, dark fog are regular phenomenon year after year, causing huge loss of crops. Rarely any government service is available here. The local farmers have been facing these calamities and experimenting approaches and agricultural practices for facing the disasters with their own wisdom. This year flood water started rising during late April and early May. Heavy current started hitting the river bank. Land erosion took a serious turn. The water level rose up and entered the Charland. The farmers are ...

Poor family receiving food support during flood

26Feb

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Stories of Nayakrishi Farmers

Poor family receiving food support during flood

UBINIG Jahanara Begum Krisnapur village received food support Emergency Support to Flood Affected People. Period: August December 2015; Supported By: Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund Jahanara Begum (52), is a poor widow of village Dakhin Krishnapur. Her husband died four years ago. Her eldest daughter was married recently. During the flood, she was living with one son and four daughters. The only earning member of the family was her son who is a daily wage worker. His income is too small to run the family. They pass their time with great hardship. Under these circumstances, the flood during June-July, 2015 was a serious blow to their life and livelihood as they did not any savings to buy food. “Not a single house in the village was saved from the flood. Ther...

Dai ghor was inundated causing difficulties for services

26Feb

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Maternal & Child Health

Dai ghor was inundated causing difficulties for services

UBINIG Pregnant mother Hadisa begum. Happy to get service from Dai ghor Emergency Support to Flood Affected People. Period: August December 2015; Supported By: Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund Hadisa Begum (24), wife of Amin Uddin (32), village: Demushiapara, union: Badarkhali, Upazila: chakaria, district: Cox’sbazar is a flood victim. She was married five years ago. She had a daughter aged three years four months. She was pregnant for eight months. Hadisa Begum mentioned, ‘All the houses and roads in Demushiapara village were inundated 3-4 feet of water in June-July 2015 flood. ‘I was three months pregnant when the flood came. There was chest deep water inside my house. I had put 6/7 bricks under my cot and lived there with untold sufferings. I performed all ...

Daimas continuing acivities during flood condition

26Feb

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Maternal & Child Health

Daimas continuing acivities during flood condition

UBINIG Dai Ma Hosneara Begum in front of her house Emergency Support to Flood Affected People. Period: August December 2015; Supported By: Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund The Daimas must run to the call of pregnant mothers as fast as the healers rush to the spot to snake bite victims’. This statement of Hosne Ara Begum (52) is indicative of the fact that how much the Daimas are conscious of their responsibilities about their service to the mothers in their respective areas. Hosne Ara Begum (52), husband Moksud Ali (60) lives in Dakhin Krishnapur, Union: B.M. Char, Upazila: Chakaria, District: Cox’sbazar. Hosne Ara Begum has been working as a Daima for last 25 years and is a skilled birth attendant. After getting involved with in the Krishnapur Daighor since i...

19Dec

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Stories of Nayakrishi Farmers

Water-logging tolerant rice ensures food sovereignty of Shilpi Akter

Nayakrishi Andolon Shilpi Akter is a marginal farmer. She lives at Dewli village, of Delduar upazila in Tangail district. She has a family of four members including her husband, Mobarak Hosain (45) and two daughters. They own 75 decimals of cultivable land. They live in the lower Jamuna flood plain area. Flood and inundation are their natural companions. Shilpi Akter mentioned their fields are inundated for about six months. The land remains fallow in the rainy season in most of the years. In the rabi (winter) season they grow rabi crops including mustard, pulses, foxtail millet and vegetables. Mobarak Hosain, husband of Shilpi Akter mentioned that even in the rainy season Chamara and Digha varieties of rice would grow luxuriantly. For last 8-10 years, after the introduction of ...

19Dec

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Community Seed Wealth Center and Gumat are disaster shelters

Nayakrishi Andolon Mehinoor Khatun ( 33) is living in the village of Bantiar,Shahjadpur, Sirajgonj. She has two sons and a daughter. Her husband Sontesh Miah is a tuberculosis patient and can not do any work. They have 87 decimal of cultivable land. They also have one cow, two goats, six ducks and six hens. She moved with two sons (9 and 6 year s) and a daughter (1) along with 3 species of seeds, one cow, two goats, six ducks and six chickens in Seeds center and Gumat (Cow shelter) during flood in 2007. This Seed wealth center and Gumat were established by UBINIG for sheltering flood affected people and livestock. Mehinoor Begum said that the Seed wealth center and Gumat were of great help for them during flood. After recession of flood water they planted seeds that they had kep...

Relief and Reconstruction work after repeated floods in Chakaria, Cox’sbazar

18Dec

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River & Floods

Relief and Reconstruction work after repeated floods in Chakaria, Cox’sbazar

UBINIG || Friday 18 December 2015 || READ BY SUBJECT: River & Floods UBINIG Supported by PWRDF Since June 2015, there have been three consecutive floods with heavy rainfalls within 3 month period that has disrupted the normal life of people in Chakaria (Cox’sbazar) and Lama and AliKadam of Bandarban. People were marooned and road communications with other districts were disrupted. It was not possible for anyone to go from Dhaka to help them as the road communication was badly damaged. The only support could be by sending money so that they can buy food items and cylinder gas to cook food. According to our Chakaria centre staff, they did not see the face of sun for a full day during three months, because of rain or cloudy weather condition. Low lying areas a...