Salaam and Ramadhan Mubarak Everyone!

The biggest source of food and income in Bangladesh is rice. This Boishaki 2017, "unusually heavy pre-monsoon rainfall submerged 400,000 hectares of wetland in the northeast of the country, damaging some 2 million tonnes of rice."

"The price of rice has spiked in Bangladesh after flash floods wiped out vast stretches of paddy field just ahead of harvest time.

It is already having an impact on the market. Agricultural economist Quazi Shahabuddin, former head of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, told Climate Home it will cause suffering across the country this year.

A kilogram of coarse rice costs 38 Bangladeshi taka ($0.57), a 58% hike since the same period in 2016, according to official data."

My Great Grandma and Great Grandad's villages have also been severely affected and the poor in these villages cannot afford the very basics of life, food. We can give just £5 each for one person to receive two meals a day. My target is to provide food to 100 people for two meals with this crowdfunding page, can you help me reach that?

Thank you for all your donations in advance! Much appreciated. I'm doing this little project with my Nanu and she also sends her thanks!

Much love,
Mahim.

Link: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/05/15/bangladesh-faces-food-supply-crunch-flash-floods/