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Climate Change

 
 

 

 
 

Climate change has increased the flooding in recent years – now Bangladesh has floods two times a year. Ten million people were affected by 2007 flooding. Over the next 40 years, 17 percent of the land will be lost to the sea resulting 20 million climate refugees because of climate change. Bangladesh will be squeezed from the south by cyclones and sea level rise, and flooded from the north by the major rivers swollen by warming glaciers in the Himalayas. In the dry season, it's easy to see the impact in erosion. Like people, trees struggle to stay rooted in north-western Bangladesh.

 

Issues like this need local solution by local people. Shidhulai as a local organization is proving that it is possible to deal with this climate change, to tackle pollution, and at the same time, to lift people out of poverty. The boat project has proved its usefulness in the continuation of education during the flooding.

 
     
   
     
 

In such context, Shidhulai is developing floating villages, and also planning to introduce the floating gardens - thus farmers could enjoy constant irrigation and produce huge harvests of vegetables in submerged Bangladesh.

 

During the seasonal flooding, Shidhulai provides emergency relief to the affected areas.

 
     
 

Related Info

 
     
 

Public Broadcasting Services (PBS): ‘Bangladesh Relief’ broadcasted in Religion & Ethics Newsweekly of PBS, Episode no. 1124, February 15, 2008.

 

The Washington Post: ‘In Flood-Prone Bangladesh, a Future That Floats’ by Emily Wax, September 27, 2007.

 
     
     
     
 

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