{"id":879,"date":"2017-09-26T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=879"},"modified":"2017-09-26T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:58:13","slug":"the-challenges-of-living-with-climate-change-in-noakhali-and-laxmipur-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2017\/09\/26\/the-challenges-of-living-with-climate-change-in-noakhali-and-laxmipur-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"The challenges of living with climate change in Noakhali and Laxmipur Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Aysha Akter Akhi<\/em><\/p>\n

It is a nice opportunity to work with RMMRU on the DECCMA project. For the purpose of completing this work, I got a chance to visit the Noakhali-Laxmipur region of Bangladesh. This visit enabled me to talk with the people of this remote area. I visited 7 Mouzas in Noakhali and Laxmipur district. The people of these areas are mostly affected by the consequences of climate change. Cyclone, flood, river erosion, scarcity of rain, heavy rainfalls are frequent in these areas. Among 7 Mouzas, I found that the Char Elahi Mouza of Companigonj of Noakhali district is the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\"image001\"I went to Char Lengta of Char Elahi which is very close to the\u00a0Meghna River. People who live on the bank of the river are at serious risk.\u00a0 Because of environmental factors like river erosion, many people have lost their houses, lands, and other belongings. They live in bamboo or tin-metaljhupri houses.<\/p>\n

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Economic difficulties mean that attaining regular meals is difficult for many people here. Some have responded to these difficulties by becoming migrants. Many are living in the homes of friends and family places, while some have taken shelter in Mosques and Primary Schools. The usual occupations for many of these people are fishing and cultivation, but at present they have no land to cultivate and there has been a drastic reduction in fish populations in the river. Many are not provided with basic human rights, like food and shelter.<\/p>\n

For these reasons, people in Char Elahi have a lot of complains against their local representative. They claim that not a single person is ready to hear them or even to talk with them, and that help is\u00a0far away. When I went to talk with those people, they thought that perhaps I would do some help or provide financial aid to them.\u00a0 Alas! there was nothing I could to for them except listen to their sorrows and sufferings. \u00a0I observed their lives and\u00a0their needs very closely. They fight with nature early and late with great courage.<\/p>\n

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by Aysha Akter Akhi It is a nice opportunity to work with RMMRU on the DECCMA project. For the purpose of completing this work, I got a chance to visit the Noakhali-Laxmipur region of Bangladesh. This visit enabled me to talk with the people of this remote area. I visited 7 Mouzas in Noakhali and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-gbm-bangladesh","category-student-reporting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-eb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":333,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2015\/12\/17\/findings-from-the-district-level-stakeholders-workshop-in-ramgoti-lakshmipur-bangladesh\/","url_meta":{"origin":879,"position":0},"title":"Findings from the District Level Stakeholders Workshop in Ramgoti, Lakshmipur, Bangladesh","author":"Lucy Graves","date":"17th December 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"DECCMA Bangladesh team organized 2nd District Level workshop at Ramgoti Upazila of Lakshmipur District on November 18, 2015. 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