Samia and Lamia are two orphan girls who were living in a remote village called Chormuguria, in the district of Madaripur. They have lost their parents at a very early age, and their family into bottomless poverty. They came to Dhaka seeking for a better life and started to living in a slum at Ershad Nagar in Tongi. Samia suffered a lot and it was unbearable for a 10-year-old heart. A few years ago, life was not the same as it is now for Samia. Everything was going well. Sami

I’ve visited various slums of Bangladesh, Chalantika is one of them. Chalantika is one of the biggest slums in Dhaka. I’ve seen numerous meritorious children in the slum who are deprived of education. A 13-year-old girl Sumaiya is one of them. Sumaiya was born in Bhola which is a coastal area located in the southern part of Bangladesh. Sumaiya’s father Abu Bokor Siddik was a fisherman. He was the only earning person in their family who was responsible for maintaining a big fa

Dacope sub-district (upazila) is a disaster-prone area which was established in 1993. Currently, there are 10 unions and 107 villages in this upazila. Among these 10 unions, Tildanaga is a union where extreme natural disasters strike every year such as cyclones (Sidr, Ayla), floods and water-logging, land-sliding and erosion, etc. As a result, many people become destitute. ADRA Bangladesh has been working for the socio-economic development at Tildanga union for the last two y

Every year, millions of people are forced to flee from their homes in order to keep safe from war, persecution or natural disaster. People who are compelled to leave their own country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster are called refugees. Refugees leaving their countries often take long journeys by car, lorry, boat or even on foot to get to safety. They gather in places called refugee camps, which are giant camps with many thousands of people living ther

I’ve seen many women in the rural areas of Bangladesh compelled to give up their education and buried their dream of being a graduate. Morjina Begum is one of them. A 38-year-old housewife had to give up her education when she attended class ten. She had a deep interest in education but all of her efforts for getting educated diminished to poverty. “I born in a poor family at Mehergoan village of Fulbaria Upazila in Mymensingh district and I had to get married at an immature