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A person carries a corrugated sheet to shift their house because of erosion due to the Meghna River in the Ramdaspur village in the Bhola district of Bangladesh on July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)Walking through the remnants of their former community, his wife Arzu Begum also feels pain, even though the abundant water in recent years made life difficult for the family.
“I raised my youngest child by tying his legs with a rope attached to the door of my house because of the fear of drowning. During the tide the house got filled with water and my youngest child always moved toward water,” remembers Begum.“All these got destroyed in the river erosion and people got scattered,” she said, pointing to the homes of friends and neighbors.“Some are living on raised platforms, some in rented homes, some in makeshift shelters at the side of dams and so on. I moved to Dhaka. We lived in a large community. Now all you can see is the river and nobody living there.
“We have become homeless,” she said.It’s estimated that more than 2,000 migrants arrive in the capital Dhaka every day, with many fleeing coastal towns.
In the northern part of Bangladesh’s capital, officials are building shelters for climate migrants and improving the water supply, but Jewel and Begum’s family are one of many unable to benefit from these projects. Officials also are working with smaller cities to be designated
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