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MOJU CHOWDHURY HAT, BANGLADESH (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION) - Shahida Begum's family lost their land along Bangladesh's ever-eroding river deltas so long ago that none of her family can remember a life on land. Read more at straitstimes.com.
We are in the shadows of civilisation," he said. 'THIS DIFFICULT LIFE' Living on boats also makes the community more vulnerable to increasingly frequent and violent https://news.trust.org/item/20211210172114-jl8fg storms. Ratna Akter, 21, recalled the time she and her husband nearly drowned when they dove into the river to rescue their 4-year-old son, who had fallen in while the family was fishing during heavy rains.
MOJU CHOWDHURY HAT, Bangladesh: Shahida Begum's family lost their land along Bangladesh's ever-eroding river deltas so long ago that none of her family can remember a life on land. "I was born on a boat on the river, like my father and grandfather. I heard we started living on boats after losing our land and house to the Meghna River," Begum, 30, told the Thomson Reuters
The High Court had directed the government 12 years ago to restore the areas of the Turag and three other rivers around the capital to their original state, but the government still lags far behind in the implementation of the directive.