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In rural Bangladesh, the problems faced by the poor are changing. Where once a small plot of land was enough to pull a family out of poverty, nowadays there are different opportunities as technologies adapt and markets widen, a principle grasped by Zohra Begum and her family. Read more...


Dushtha Shasthya Kendra and DanChurchAid's disaster response to the cyclone Sidr that hit Bangladesh in November 2007. Read more...


29 year old fishermen Nobi Hussein from the village Rayenda Bazar located in the Sarankhola area in Bangladesh tells his story about that fateful night when the cyclone Sidr struck. Read more...


In Mandir Mouza village, Rajarhat, Bharati Rani and Binod Chandra are bringing up their two sons in a thatched house built on the embankment of the Teesta River. It is a hard life, for the river has washed away the family home many times and swallowed up the 10 decimals of land they had bought using micro-credit from RDRS. They hope to move on soon, however, to a better life as entrepreneurs. Read more...


Roksana Begum is not just poor, she is also homeless in the country of her birth. One of thousands of Biharis, she lives in a camp of 280 households just outside Saidpur with her husband Mohammad Ibrahim and five children. For over thirty years, this community has lived outside mainstream society, ostracised because they took they losing side in the 1971 War of Independence. Read more...


Salma Begum is an industrious, ambitious and respected resident in her village, a member of local Federation committees. She is even planning on standing for the Union Parishad, an elected member representing the poor of her village. But this was not always the case. Read more...


35 years old Renu lives in Bokultolla village in Bangladesh. Her husband has some land and does farming most of the year, but at the time of the cyclone Sidr, he was away working in Chittagong, so she was alone with her daughter when the cyclone struck.
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Purnima Rani is a firm believer in hard work as the way to success in life. Ten years ago, she was just an ordinary housewife but then she joined RDRS, and her life was turned around. Offered training in income-generating skills, Purnima opted for tailoring, went on a course and acquired a free sewing machine. Read more...


The destruction and lost of livelihoods after cyclone Sidr is still evident in Southern Bangladesh Read more...


DanChurchAid (DCA) has received Euro 250.000 from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department in response to the situation in Bangladesh after the Cyclone SIDR. Read more...


An ocean of gold, pink, red, yellow and green saris fill the cultural centre in the village of Madaripur, where an emergency relief distribution by ACT member, Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh (LHCB), is currently underway in response to the Cyclone Sidr emergency. Read more...


Around 2000 families, who have been hit by cyclone Sidr, have received relief items. Read more...


DanChurchAid gives relief aid worth 300.000 DKK to the worst hit areas in Bangladesh. Read more...


Thousands of lives have been destroyed by the cyclone that recently hit the coast of Bangladesh. Read more...


Some of the largest floods ever have hit parts of India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Across South Asia, DanChurchAid has been providing essential water equipment and temporary shelters for people who have lost their homes to flooding.

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In central Bangladesh 50 families, escaping from the massive floods, has found safety on a Highway. The highway is raised above ground level to make it act like an embankment. Read more...


RDRS Bangladesh has provided food relief worth over taka 18 million (equivalent to USD 261,500) to about 30,400 flood-affected people in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat Districts. Read more...


The floods in South Asia have hit Bangladesh with enormous force, and there is an acute need for just about everything, such as food, seed grain and reconstruction, DanChurchAid representative reports from Dhaka. Read more...


The situation in India and Bangladesh is still critical. Read more...


Members of the global alliance, Action by Churches Together (ACT) International of which DanChurchAid is a member, continue to respond to multiple floods crises across vast regions of Asia. Reuters reports that 35 million people are affected by the crisis in India, Bangladesh and Nepal alone. China and Pakistan have also suffered torrential rains and floods in the past month. Read more...


DanChurchAid has sent one million DKK to the relief work for the survivors of the floods in Asia, and more money is on its way. Read more...