Like ducks to water
11 April 2008 | Siraj Shahjahan
Bangladesh is repeatedly afflicted by flooding, recognised throughout the world as one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. For many, life has become a constant struggle to fight poverty and the floods.
Siraj Shahjahan meets husband and wife Shamsur Rahman Shaq and Mosamot Amena Begaumin in south-western Bangladesh, where they spend four months a year living inundated by flood waters. They have found a way to survive after being forced to give up planting crops on their flooded land.
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- Bangladesh: A man paddles his way through flood waters / Dieter Telemans – Panos Pictures
Siraj Shahjahan is an online journalist, publisher and lecturer at the University of Liberal Arts in Dhaka.
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