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40 year old Sajeda breaks into tears as she discusses dismal future of her children in the slums of Dhaka. The family can't afford the education costs for the children. Sajeda and her mother Nurjahan Begum (believed to be 90 but looking more like 75) survived seven cyclones in the Chandler District of southern Bangladesh before they lost all their land in river bank erosion and moved to Dhaka 10 years ago. Since then they have moved around from slum to slum, unable to make enough money to build a permanent shelter. In the slum of Koreil, the family of 8 sleeps, eats and lives in a makeshift tent roughly 6 by 8 meters in size. The only man in the family Md. Alauddin is the only person that earns money, doing occasional electric, mortar or other construction jobs. The only food they can afford is vegetables and small fish. A fire decimated their part of the slum four months ago and they lost any little possessions they had. Alauddin was only able to rescue a copy of Quran and an old TV set from the fire. 07/09/17

Photo by Marcin Szczepanski/Sinking Cities Project

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Bangladesh: A Country Underwater
40 year old Sajeda breaks into tears as she discusses dismal future of her children in the slums of Dhaka. The family can't afford the education costs for the children. Sajeda and her mother Nurjahan Begum (believed to be 90 but looking more like 75) survived seven cyclones in the Chandler District of southern Bangladesh before they lost all their land in river bank erosion and moved to Dhaka 10 years ago. Since then they have moved around from slum to slum, unable to make enough money to build a permanent shelter. In the slum of Koreil, the family of 8 sleeps, eats and lives in a makeshift tent roughly 6 by 8 meters in size. The only man in the family Md. Alauddin is the only person that earns money, doing occasional electric, mortar or other construction jobs. The only food they can afford is vegetables and small fish. A fire decimated their part of the slum four months ago and they lost any little possessions they had. Alauddin was only able to rescue a copy of Quran and an old TV set from the fire. 07/09/17 <br /> <br /> Photo by Marcin Szczepanski/Sinking Cities Project