The Sundarbans is situated in a region prone to a high incidence of natural calamities due to it’s geographic location. Every year cyclones visit this area increasing the difficulties of the local community. Most of the people adjacent to Sundarbans are forest dwellers and they depend on the forest for their life and livelihood.
BEDS along with Village Disaster Management Committee (VDMC) are working together to minimize the disaster loss and misery. BEDS identified the problems of Mathurapur village and presented that in problem tree with the active involvement of the local community. In the problem tree, natural disasters like river erosion, flooding, cyclones, storm surge, saline water intrusion and droughts were highlighted. There are also some social problems and man-made disasters. The major social problem is poverty. Their life has become miserable in the cycle of poverty and the havoc of disasters.
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Most of the poor people in the region depend on forests and day laborers. In addition to risky livelihood, basic health care services also inadequate. In addition to unconsciousness, they cannot afford to go out from the village for treatment. As a result, they often suffer from various health complications. Then due to the delay in getting proper treatment, huge losses are incurred.
Mr. Kader’s family is the victim of such an incident. The daughter of Mr. Kader name Miss. Rabeya(22) was three years old when she was suffering a severe fever. They went to medicine shop or village doctor. Miss. Rabeya becomes paralyzed at one stage of treatment by village doctor. Then her family takes her another village doctor. She recovered from paralysis, but lost her hearing. If Mr. Kader’s daughter had received proper treatment, she would not have suffered this loss in her childhood.
The effects of natural disasters of coastal region
The Chunkuri River flows away near Jela Para, Muthurapur and Mundapara. Jela Para, Muthurapur is on the river bank and the distance from Mundapara is about 2.8 KM from Chunkuri River. As a result, the residents of this region have to face most of the cyclones. Sometime the effects of these cyclones are widespread and sometime small. Coastal areas have often faced such disasters in recent years. 15 Nov 2007: Cyclone Sidr, 27-29 May 2009: Cyclone Aila, 04 May 2019: Cyclone Fani, 09 Nov 2019: Bulbul and 20 May 2020: Cyclone Amphan, 26 May 2021: Cyclone Yaas caused extensive damage in the region. Most of the tree of this region has been damage by Cyclone Amphan. In (Jela Para, Muthurapur and Mundapara) Munshigonj, Shymnagar, Satkhira huge numbers of house were damaged under the tree that followed the cyclone Amphan and many villages were flooded. Next year these regions flooded again by Cyclone Yaas and by have rainfall several times. One natural disaster after another, the people of this region are almost helpless. It is feared that natural disasters will intensify in the coming years by the effects of climate change.
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The life in the South-West coastal regions of Bangladesh is challenging. Natural calamities, sudden disasters and aftershock hazards are their day-to-day companions. While talking with a villager in Mathurapur village under Shyamnagar sub-district of Khulna district, we came to learn about his miserable life with disasters.
Mr. Kedar said that most of the village dwellers live in khas land (lands under Bangladesh Water Development Board). Fish and crab catching is their main occupation, which is a difficult task itself in the challenging environment of Sundarbans. In rainy season they use rain water for daily purposes and other times they collect water from nearby temple.
Mr. Kedar has two disabled children which add in the misery. During disaster like cyclone all the family members are unable to go to the cyclone centre because the two cyclone centers situated in the area don’t have adequate facilities for all villagers.
BEDS training centre has been a ray of hope for the local people and they are giving as much facilities as possible. We are trying to build disaster management committee in every community and provide help when in need.
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The Sundarbans is situated in a region prone to a high incidence of cyclonic storms. Over the past two centuries the coastal areas and offshore islands of Bangladesh, which the majority of the Sundarbans belongs to, have been affected by many severe cyclones and storm surges. According to the IPCC projections, the frequency of dramatic weather events will increase as temperatures and sea levels rise.
Increasing the likelihood of flooding events, the Sundarbans region will become more vulnerable to cyclonic events. Extreme events impact ecological and human systems causing human suffering and economic losses thereby impacting human well-being.
It is necessary to recognize that people living in the Sundarbans inhabit a disaster-prone zone and take preventive measures accordingly. For example, the recent Amphan cyclone showed that loss of life could be mitigated to a great extent if people took shelter in the Flood Centers during the storm. Consequently, it is more economical to invest in risk prevention, than to fund post-disaster recovery. So, BEDS arranged a training for the local people on constructing disaster adapted building at Shyamnagar of Sathkhira district.
All classes of people including women were presented in the training. They were taught about basic structure of disaster adapted building via photos and videos. They learned about the necessity of constructing such kind of house. In this training participants also shared their opinions. It was a participatory program. Local people said that, they always suffer for various disasters. Every year they have to build their house. But this training will help them to build sustainable house and will help to minimize their loss from natural calamities.
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