Reducing Climate Hazards of Sundarbans Community

Most of the poor people in the region depend on forests and day laborers. In addition to risky livelihood, basic health care services also inadequate. In addition to unconsciousness, they cannot afford to go out from the village for treatment. As a result, they often suffer from various health complications. Then due to the delay in getting proper treatment, huge losses are incurred.

Mr. Kader’s family is the victim of such an incident. The daughter of Mr. Kader name Miss. Rabeya(22) was three years old when she was suffering a severe fever. They went to medicine shop or village doctor. Miss. Rabeya becomes paralyzed at one stage of treatment by village doctor. Then her family takes her another village doctor. She recovered from paralysis, but lost her hearing. If Mr. Kader’s daughter had received proper treatment, she would not have suffered this loss in her childhood.

The effects of natural disasters of coastal region

The Chunkuri River flows away near Jela Para, Muthurapur and Mundapara. Jela Para, Muthurapur is on the river bank and the distance from Mundapara is about 2.8 KM from Chunkuri River. As a result, the residents of this region have to face most of the cyclones. Sometime the effects of these cyclones are widespread and sometime small. Coastal areas have often faced such disasters in recent years. 15 Nov 2007: Cyclone Sidr, 27-29 May 2009: Cyclone Aila, 04 May 2019: Cyclone Fani, 09 Nov 2019: Bulbul and 20 May 2020: Cyclone Amphan, 26 May 2021: Cyclone Yaas caused extensive damage in the region. Most of the tree of this region has been damage by Cyclone Amphan. In (Jela Para, Muthurapur and Mundapara) Munshigonj, Shymnagar, Satkhira huge numbers of house were damaged under the tree that followed the cyclone Amphan and many villages were flooded. Next year these regions flooded again by Cyclone Yaas and by have rainfall several times. One natural disaster after another, the people of this region are almost helpless. It is feared that natural disasters will intensify in the coming years by the effects of climate change.   

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The life in the South-West coastal regions of Bangladesh is challenging. Natural calamities, sudden disasters and aftershock hazards are their day-to-day companions. While talking with a villager in Mathurapur village under Shyamnagar sub-district of Khulna district, we came to learn about his miserable life with disasters.

Mr. Kedar said that most of the village dwellers live in khas land (lands under Bangladesh Water Development Board). Fish and crab catching is their main occupation, which is a difficult task itself in the challenging environment of Sundarbans.  In rainy season they use rain water for daily purposes and other times they collect water from nearby temple.

Mr. Kedar has two disabled children which add in the misery. During disaster like cyclone all the family members are unable to go to the cyclone centre because the two cyclone centers situated in the area don’t have adequate facilities for all villagers.

BEDS training centre has been a ray of hope for the local people and they are giving as much facilities as possible. We are trying to build disaster management committee in every community and provide help when in need.

We are extremely grateful to our donors for their continuous support. We would like to request all our donors to start monthly recurring donations for our project. We are requesting all our donors to start monthly recurring donations. Please click the following link;

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/climate-change-disaster-risk-reduction-bangladesh?show=recurring