Bangladesh Flood …. Urgent action needed
Panu Begum was sitting on the roof of her house when the television reporter passed by. She had been living on this small strip of corrugated tin for five days. The water below was too deep to stand in.
“The flood has entered everyone’s homes.” said Panu. “There’s nowhere to take refuge. I am cooking, eating, living and sleeping up here”.
Next door, her neighbours, a family with four children, huddled together under what little shade they could find from the heat of the sun. This whole family had been living up on their roof for the best part of a week. Their goat was the only valuable possession to have been saved from the flood.
Thousands of people are in the same predicament. Some have been given only a few kilograms of rice, which is not nearly enough to sustain them.
Bangladesh is no stranger to floods, every year it is thought that one fifth of the country disappears beneath the monsoon rain waters, people cope and survive, but this is the worst flood they have known for almost ten years.
As the monsoon rains from and north-east work their way into thedelta people wade through brackish, stinking, flood water with water-borne diseases being a real danger. In times like these it’s the children who are particularly vulnerable.
People are cooking their meagre food supply in water scooped from the flood as they have no other choice. There is simply no clean water available.
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