{"id":20093182,"date":"2022-06-20T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?post_type=photo_story&#038;p=93182"},"modified":"2022-06-21T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T09:00:17","slug":"build-collapse-rebuild-life-on-the-river-islands-of-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"photo_story","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/build-collapse-rebuild-life-on-the-river-islands-of-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Build, collapse, rebuild: life on the river islands of Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Sukhi means happy. But there have been few happy moments in the life of 70-year-old Sukhi Begum. She has lost her home seven times in the past 50 years due to flooding and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banglajol.info\/index.php\/PA\/article\/view\/33467\">riverbank erosion<\/a> by the Brahmaputra River. The mother of five still lives on a riverine island \u2013 called a char \u2013 and fears her home will be washed away again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, people are adapting in ways old and new. There are signs of hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-58-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-58-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-58-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-58-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-58-1800x1200.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-58-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"Sukhi Begum with her 50-year-old daughter Bani Begum in the background at her home in Pakuar Char, Jamalpur, Bangladesh\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">Sukhi Begum (centre) with her 50-year-old daughter Bani Begum at her home on Pakuar Char, Jamalpur, in April 2022 (Image: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-58-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"476 KB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe came to Pakuar Char of Sariakandi [in Bogura district of northern Bangladesh] around 50 years ago. I still remember the day when we were first displaced due to riverbank erosion. We built homes there to start a new life, but the river devoured our homes time and again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, Sukhi does not want to live anywhere else. She knows that floods destroy, but they also bring fresh silt from the Himalayas, making the chars the most fertile land in the Bengal delta. \u201cI was born in a char and want to breathe my last in a char too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-accordion block--accordion\"><span class=\"block--accordion__title\">The formation of chars on the Brahmaputra<\/span><div class=\"block--accordion__content\"><div class=\"block--accordion__content__inner\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/river-basins\/brahmaputra\/\">Brahmaputra River<\/a> carries one of the world\u2019s highest sediment loads. Its sediment transport dynamics strongly affect the ecology and agriculture of northeast India and downstream Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEach year, about 550 to 600 million tonnes of sediment come from the upstream areas through the Brahmaputra River,&#8221; said Malik Fida A Khan, executive director of the Dhaka-based Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS). \u201cIt does not carry all the sediment to the Bay of Bengal. It creates new chars on the riverbed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan said there are about 50 small and large chars on the Bangladesh section of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries, plus 20-25 large river shoals.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brahmaputra \u2013 called the Jamuna in Bangladesh \u2013 destroys chars and simultaneously adds to them by depositing silt. As it did so on one side of Pakuar Char, 34-year-old farmer Ziaur Rahman sowed jute, though he knew a flood could wash away his crop at any time, especially during the June-September monsoon. He has shifted his home to a relatively more permanent island \u2013 just another way of adapting to the floods that are becoming more frequent due to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-47-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-47-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-47-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-47-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-47-1800x1350.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-47-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"Char Kawamara, Sharishabari, Jamalpur, Bangladesh\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">Char Kawamara, Sharishabari, Jamalpur (Image: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-47-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"1 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1920\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-17-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-17-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-17-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-17-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-17-1800x1350.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-17-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"Sand-filled bags on the banks of Pakuar Char to prevent river erosion\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">Sand-filled bags placed on the banks of Pakuar Char to prevent river erosion (Image: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-17-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"694 KB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1920\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-adaptation-every-monsoon\">Adaptation every monsoon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>People living on the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.climate.columbia.edu\/2013\/02\/22\/brahmaputra-chars\/\">Brahmaputra chars<\/a> know that large parts of the low-lying sand-and-silt islands will be inundated every monsoon. It does not take a big flood. Some raise the earthen foundations of their homes as high as they can afford to. Then they hang their bedsteads from rafters, hammock style. Planks are hammered together to make lofts at the same higher level. This is where they live when the floor is flooded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-250-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-250-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-250-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-250-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-250-1800x1200.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-250-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"child laying in hanging bed: Hanging a bed like a hammock to keep it above the floodwaters is a widespread practice\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">Hanging a bed like a hammock to keep it above the floodwaters is a widespread practice \u2013 Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur (Image: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-250-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"681 KB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But the water may rise further. So, in just about every home, trunks of banana plants are lashed together to form rafts on which families will live, sometimes for months. The wealthiest shelter in their own boats. Huts, roads, markets \u2013 all are under water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-219-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-219-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-219-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-219-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-219-1800x1200.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-219-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"Before building their homes, char residents raise the earthen foundations as high as they can afford to in an effort to keep their homes safe during floods \u2013 Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur (Photo: Mohammad Abdus Salam\/The Third Pole)\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">Before building their homes, char residents raise the earthen foundations as high as they can afford to in an effort to keep their homes safe during floods \u2013 Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur (Image: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-219-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"1 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen floods inundate our homesteads, we must live in lofts built inside houses or on boats or the rafts. When the situation gets worse, people move to [government-run] shelters. But they do not want to go there leaving their all belongings behind,\u201d said Ziaur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is one item found in every char household, however poor: a waterproof box. Land title deeds and all legal papers are carefully folded inside polythene packets, which are kept inside the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-403-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-403-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-403-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-403-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-403-1800x1200.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-403-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"There is one watertight box in every home to keep legal and other important documents safe from floodwaters \u2013 Char Damodarpur, Jamalpur\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">There is one watertight box in every home to keep legal and other important documents safe from floodwaters \u2013 Char Damodarpur, Jamalpur (Image: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-403-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"443 KB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The big adaptation is in agriculture. Mozam Mondal of nearby Char Shovagacha said farmers are now cultivating flood-tolerant varieties of maize. \u201cI cultivated maize on one acre this year and there was bumper production.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe like to sow maize on chars as we get a fair price for the cash crop. It\u2019s higher than for other crops. I sold maize at BDT 1,300 [USD 15] per maund [37.32 kg] this year,\u201d said Mozammel Haque, a farmer on Char Dawlatpur in Sharishabari sub-district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-146-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-146-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-146-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-146-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-146-1800x1200.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-146-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"Maize is widely cultivated on Char lands on the Brahmaputra riverbed in Bangladesh - Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">Maize\u00a0is widely cultivated on char lands along the Bangladesh section of the Brahmaputra \u2013 Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur (Image: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-146-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"1 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens to their livestock? Mozam said residents must keep livestock on the same rafts. People carry dried rice in various forms as food. There is nothing for the livestock until they manage to steer their rafts to the nearest patch of grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-raising-homes-raising-hopes\">Raising homes, raising hopes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Eamily Begum, 50, knew her family could not afford to raise the foundations of their char home. But she got support to do so in 2021 from the Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation, a government-run development organisation. She thinks the family will be relatively safe now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the past, we had to sell our goats at lower prices before the monsoon as we had no way to keep our goats during floods,\u201d Eamily said. But now the raised plinth of her family homestead has enough space to house the goats they rear. \u201cNow we will not sell our goats [cheap] during a flood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-195-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-195-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-195-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-195-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-195-1800x1200.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-195-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"A scheme helps build a raised goat pen to keep the animals safe during floods in Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">A support scheme helps residents build a raised goat pen to keep the animals safe during floods in Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur (Image: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-195-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"879 KB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Some raised plinths are large enough to grow fruits and vegetables around the homestead. \u201cI have already earned about BDT 1,400 [USD 16] by selling bottle gourd,\u201d said Seema Begum, another resident. \u201cI will be able to earn more by selling papaya. The fruit has started ripening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pogidur Rahman, coordinator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pksf-bd.org\/web\/?page_id=8944\">PKSP Extended Community Climate Project \u2013 Flood<\/a>, said the project has provided financial support to 87 families to build climate-resilient houses by raising plinths. But, Rahman said, this support is not enough as there are a huge number of poor families living on the chars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tackling-flooded-tubewells-and-toilets\">Tackling flooded tubewells and toilets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Floods submerge the tubewells from which char dwellers get their drinking water. Every monsoon, they face a water shortage. But sanitation has improved on many chars \u2013 government-built public toilets have been raised higher so they are not submerged as quickly as before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the past, our tubewells and toilets were inundated during the floods. Now we have installed them on raised plinths. We hope we will not face any drinking water and sanitation crisis during floods in future,\u201d said Afroza Begum of Nadaghari Char at Madarganj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-215-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-215-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-215-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-215-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-215-1800x1200.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-215-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"A public toilet built on a raised platform in Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur, to keep it above floodwaters\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">A public toilet built on a raised platform in Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur, to keep it above floodwaters (Image: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-215-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"773 KB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-floods-take-heavier-toll-on-women-and-children\">Floods take heavier toll on women and children<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A flood does not change the traditional roles of women \u2013 cooking and fetching drinking water. It makes their jobs harder. Some have to travel up to a kilometre to get to a functioning tubewell. Some reach it on boats or rafts. Others must wade through, sometimes barely keeping their heads above the floodwaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCollecting drinking water is a hard task indeed,\u201d said Mahmuda Begum, resident of Char Damudurpur in Jamalpur district. \u201cWe have to go a long distance by boat or raft.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<a class=\"wp-block-cd-related-news alignright block--related-news loading\" data-post-id=\"20085990\"><div class=\"block--related-news__image\"><\/div><div class=\"block--related-news__content\"><span class=\"block--related-news__heading\">Recommended<\/span><span class=\"block--related-news__title\"><\/span><\/div><\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<a class=\"wp-block-cd-related-news block--related-news loading\" data-post-id=\"20020238\"><div class=\"block--related-news__image\"><\/div><div class=\"block--related-news__content\"><span class=\"block--related-news__heading\">Recommended<\/span><span class=\"block--related-news__title\"><\/span><\/div><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And when women are forced to stay in shelters or atop <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.worldbank.org\/en\/projects-operations\/project-detail\/P009337\">embankments<\/a>, they are vulnerable to sexual harassment, especially when they use public toilets at night, said Muhammed Forruq Rahman, research and advocacy manager of the local NGO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccb.org.bd\/about-us\/team\/\">Network on Climate Change, Bangladesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindependentbd.com\/arcprint\/details\/84118\/2017-03-07\">not enough education facilities for children in char areas<\/a>. The few schools that exist are flooded every year, meaning children miss classes for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-253-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-253-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-253-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-253-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-253-1800x1200.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-253-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"Few of the children living in chars go to school, which remain flooded and closed for months every year \u2013 Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">Few of the children living on chars go to school, which remain flooded and closed for months every year \u2013 Char Shubhagacha, Jamalpur (Image: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-253-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"790 KB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-do-people-live-on-chars\">Why do people live on chars?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The chars formed as the Brahmaputra, Ganga and other rivers brought silt down from the Himalayas. The river islands are so fertile that they have been fought over for centuries. Local landlords used to keep private armies (called paiks and lathials) to take over chars, and incentivised landless farmers to cultivate the char lands and live there despite the difficulties. Many of the farming families living on chars today are descendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They grow rice, maize, jute and vegetables \u2013 all of which grow better here than on other soils. \u201cThere is no shortage of crops in the chars any time of the year,\u201d said Mahmuda Begum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shortage of health and other services<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Alal Mondal, a resident of Char Shovagacha, said that if anyone falls ill, there is no doctor on the island. \u201cSo, the patient must be taken to Gabergram, three kilometres away, by boat or raft. Then they may have to be shifted to a hospital in Jamalpur.\u201d His neighbour Abdur Rahman said there is no community clinic on the char.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Char residents have little access to government-run schemes such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/socialprotection.gov.bd\/social-protection-pr\/vulnerable-group-feeding-vgf\/\">vulnerable group feeding scheme<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fpmu.gov.bd\/agridrupal\/content\/vulnerable-group-development-vgd\">vulnerable group development<\/a> programme, old-age allowance, widow allowance or disability allowance. There are allegations that officials seek bribes before agreeing to include anyone in a scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-story-image aligncenter block--story-image block--story-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--story-image__column\"><div class=\"block--story-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-448-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-448-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-448-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-448-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-448-1800x1200.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-448-scaled.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 999px) 1024px, (max-width: 1400px) 1400px, (max-width: 2000px) 2000px, 2560px\" alt=\"The river and the char \u2013 Kawamara, Sharishabari, Jamalpur\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--story-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--story-image__caption\">The river and the char \u2013 Kawamara, Sharishabari, Jamalpur (Photo: Mohammad Abdus Salam \/ The Third Pole)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jamalpur_climate-change_environment_river_erosion_people_village-448-scaled.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"383 KB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New adaptation measures bring hope to people on the chars of the Brahmaputra, whose homes are often lost to floods and erosion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20093102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[761],"tags":[519],"country":[20000116],"class_list":["post-20093182","photo_story","type-photo_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate-impacts","country-bangladesh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - 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