Mangrove Information, Education & Research Centre

Sundarbans Coastal zone of Bangladesh is most vulnerable to disaster damage as it faces the first attack of any natural calamities. Recent heavy monsoon caused flooding in the Sundarbans coastal areas. The suffering of people is intolerable. Peoples’ house, cropland, the fish farm has drowned into the water. Coastal people are going through harsh conditions. Covid-19 has made their life more complicated. Due to back-to-back lockdown, income opportunities were reduced. Yet now they have not recovered the loss due to Covi-19. BEDS provided emergency relief support to 150 coastal families with the help of GlobalGiving. BEDS supported duck, chicken, sheep, seeds to the villagers. But that’s not enough for the disaster coastal affected people. But currently we are unable to provide those people with direct support as we have no fund available right now.

So, we are requesting all our donors to come forward for the aid of those victim people. We hope that all our donors will start monthly recurring donation for the helpless, disaster vulnerable poor people. Link of recurring donation is as follows

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/donate-to-cyclone-affected-communities-of-bangladesh/?show=recurring

Sundarbans coastal region of Bangladesh is extremely disaster vulnerable. People of this region have to face a numerous (small and big) natural disasters over the year. Sometimes, massive disasters occur in here which stuns the general life and livelihood of the general people. In the recent years, some mega disasters occurred in this region like Sidr, Aila, Bulbul, Fani, Titli, Amphan, Yash etc. BEDS provided emergency relief support to 150 coastal families with the help of GlobalGiving. Some of the families who fall victim also get rehabilitation support for sewing and farming activity by BEDS. The supported villagers are doing well with duck, chicken, sheep, seeds and earning money. 

The people of Mathurapur village under Shyamnagar sub district of Satkhira district (adjacent to Sundarbans) lives below the poverty line. They are forest resource harvesters. In this Covid pandemic, their income has been reduced a lot as they do not go different places for work. Most of the children of this area suffer from malnutrition. At present BEDS has taken an innovative step to encourage the children for mangrove conservation as well as reducing malnutrition. BEDS has been providing nutritious food to the 170 children of poor fishermen and ethnic community (munda) at Mathurapur village. Mangrove saplings are planted involving 170 students and after that they feed healthy food like rice, vegetable, fish, meat, fruit and sweet. BEDS will perform this program 15 times with the same 170 children. Thus children will plant more plants and get healthy food.

We would like to thank all our donors for their support to help the Amphan affected people. We are requesting all our donors to start monthly recurring donation by clicking the following link;

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/donate-to-cyclone-affected-communities-of-bangladesh?show=recurring