Nov
12
2009

Gabura

Oxfam has compiled a hive of video footage, pictures and interviews from Gabura, an island in south west Bangladesh that was hit hard by cyclone Aila earlier this year.

It’s a nifty resource that you can dip into for as much or as little as you want, and is as close as you’ll come to being there without, well, being there.

Touching stories come from Hasmot Ali, a man living with disfigurement after being savaged by a tiger; Fatemah Khatun, a young girl who worries a rash caused by salt water could ruin her chances at marriage; and an elderly woman who is left scouring the river banks for mud bricks to build some sort of stove with.

Written by ecoexplorer in: Everything Else |

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