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SmugMug > keywords > ngo > ZUMARRAGA ISLAND, WESTERN SAMAR (October 26, 2004) NURTURING MINDS FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE. Hundreds of jubilant school children and their teachers from the Zumarraga Elementary School in Zumarraga Island, Western Samar, escort a loadcart carrying hundreds of brandnew Department of Education-approved textbooks donated to their school by the Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan Citizens Initiatives; Inc. (KAAKBAY-CDI), as part of its nationwide capability building project for rural learning and development in 20 percent of the country's poorest barangays. Photo by JOE GALVEZ
SmugMug > keywords > ngo > ZUMARRAGA ISLAND, WESTERN SAMAR (October 26, 2004) NURTURING MINDS FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE. Hundreds of surprised and jubilant school children and their teachers from the Zumarraga Elementary School in Zumarraga Island, Western Samar, gather around hundreds of Department of Education-approved brandnew textbooks donated to their school by the Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan Citizens Initiatives; Inc. (KAAKBAY-CDI), as part of its nationwide capability building project for rural learning and development in 20 percent of the country's poorest barangays. Photo by JOE GALVEZ
SmugMug > keywords > ngo > Nazmul Hassan Dullu (41 years old) works in his vegetable field in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. BRAC encourage him to grow vegetables and provided hybrid vegetable seeds for many vegetables including sweet pumpkins, gourd, etc. He has also started to plant water melon, uncommon in this region previously.
SmugMug > keywords > ngo > A group of women dig a canal under BRAC Cash for Work programme in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. Commenting on her work, Feroza Khatun, one of many women working here said, “I used to work at peoples’ home as a maid before. Although what I do now is much more difficult physically, but I feel I am so much better off. I get Taka 100 per day. It is so much more than before. Thanks to this work, now we are able to eat vegetables with rice. Also, I save half of what I earn. I have saved Taka 1500 so far.”
SmugMug > keywords > ngo > Feroza Khatun (25 years old) digs a canal with a group of women working under BRAC Cash for Work programme in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. Commenting on her work she said, “I used to work at peoples’ home as a maid before. Although what I do now is much more difficult physically, but I feel I am so much better off. I get Taka 100 per day. It is so much more than before. Thanks to this work, now we are able to eat vegetables with rice. Also, I save half of what I earn. I have saved Taka 1500 so far.”
SmugMug > keywords > ngo > A woman pauses to wipe her sweats while digging a canal under BRAC Cash for Work programme in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. Commenting on her work, Feroza Khatun, one of many women working here said, “I used to work at peoples’ home as a maid before. Although what I do now is much more difficult physically, but I feel I am so much better off. I get Taka 100 per day. It is so much more than before. Thanks to this work, now we are able to eat vegetables with rice. Also, I save half of what I earn. I have saved Taka 1500 so far.”
SmugMug > keywords > ngo > Minara Begum (35 years old) carries a basket full of vegetable in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. BRAC encouraged Minara Begum to grow vegetables in 1/2 acre land she owns with her husband Faroque Faraz (47 years). To kick start vegetable cultivation, BRAC provided hybrid seeds, fertilizer and money to erect machans for growing vegetables like pumpkins. She now grows tomatoes, sweet pumpkin, korela and other vegetables. Both her children go to school. Her 12-years old daughter attends grade 7 and 15-years-old son is in grade 9. They earn approximately Taka 25,000/year from vegetables she grows in two seasons.
SmugMug > keywords > ngo > Minara Begum (35 years old) works in her 1/2 acre vegetable field that she owns with her husband in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. BRAC encouraged Minara Begum to grow vegetables in her land. To kick start vegetable cultivation, BRAC provided hybrid seeds, fertilizer and money to erect machans for growing vegetables like pumpkins. She now grows tomatoes, sweet pumpkin, korela and other vegetables. Both her children go to school. Her 12-years old daughter attends grade 7 and 15-years-old son is in grade 9. They earn approximately Taka 25,000/year from vegetables she grows in two seasons.
SmugMug > keywords > ngo > Carrying Maria, her young daughter, Laizu Begum (28 years old) walks through a paddy-field in Bogi Santh Ghar village of South Khali Union in Sharankhola Thana. Bangladesh. She has three other children. Her husband works as a day labourer in other people’s land as a farmer. In high season, he gets about Taka 150/day. Since Sharankhola Union was worst hit by cyclone Sidr in 2007, her house was also destroyed completely. Now, slowly, they are trying to put pieces of their house as well as their lives together. Every few years Bangladesh keeps getting battered by some of the worst natural disasters in the world. It is so frequent that let alone internationals, even Bangladeshis do not considering it a real disaster unless death toll reaches several thousands. Every time a disaster hit, a ‘new normal’ is set. There is a tendency to measure intensity of disasters by the number of dead. Much of Bangladesh gets flooded every year, but as flood does not kill people, it hardly makes news unless it enters an urban centre like Dhaka. Regardless of how it is measured, the cyclone Sidr that hit southern Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, was one of the fiercest cyclones in last 131 years, leaving over 4,000 people dead and millions affected. Like any other disaster in Bangladesh, the real story is not how many people died or got affected, but how people managed to survive. Bangladeshis have to be some of the most resilient people in the world.
ZUMARRAGA ISLAND, WESTERN SAMAR (October 26, 2004) NURTURING MINDS FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE. Hundreds of jubilant school children and their teachers from the Zumarraga Elementary School in Zumarraga Island, Western Samar, escort a loadcart carrying hundreds of brandnew Department of Education-approved textbooks donated to their school by the Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan Citizens Initiatives; Inc. (KAAKBAY-CDI), as part of its nationwide capability building project for rural learning and development in 20 percent of the country's poorest barangays. Photo by JOE GALVEZ
> ZUMARRAGA ISLAND, WESTERN SAMAR (October 26, 2004) NURTURING MINDS FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE. Hundreds of jubilant school children and their teachers from the Zumarraga Elementary School in Zumarraga Island, Western Samar, escort a loadcart carrying hundreds of brandnew Department of Education-approved textbooks donated to their school by the Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan Citizens Initiatives; Inc. (KAAKBAY-CDI), as part of its nationwide capability building project for rural learning and development in 20 percent of the country's poorest barangays. Photo by JOE GALVEZ
ZUMARRAGA ISLAND, WESTERN SAMAR (October 26, 2004) NURTURING MINDS FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE. Hundreds of jubilant school children and their teachers from the Zumarraga Elementary School in Zumarraga Island, Western Samar, escort a loadcart carrying hundreds of brandnew Department of Education-approved textbooks donated to their school by the Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan Citizens Initiatives; Inc. (KAAKBAY-CDI), as part of its nationwide capability building project for rural learning and development in 20 percent of the country's poorest barangays. Photo by JOE GALVEZ
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