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Tanjibul, 14, is a community disaster risk volunteer. He helps organise evacuations to the nearest cycline shelter when early warnings are sounded [CAFOD]

Tanjibul, 14, community disaster risk volunteer

Tanjibul, 14, is a community disaster risk volunteer. He helps organise evacuations to the nearest cycline shelter when early warnings are sounded [CAFOD]

Rubal and his family outside their home that was damaged by the cyclone. They have temporarily repaired their home with help from Caritas Bangladesh who gave them plastic sheeting [Claire Goudsmit]

Mullah family

Rubal and his family outside their home that was damaged by the cyclone. They have temporarily repaired their home with help from Caritas Bangladesh who gave them plastic sheeting [Claire Goudsmit]

Ali Akbar recieved two goats to help his daughter Muktar, who is partially-sighted [Claire Goudsmit]

Ali Akbar and Muktar

Ali Akbar recieved two goats to help his daughter Muktar, who is partially-sighted [Claire Goudsmit]

Villagers from Sharonkhola Upazila in the Khulna district, a cyclone affected area. Our partner Prodipan supports a tree plantation project which helps protect the village from natural disasters [Claire Goudsmit]

Tree plantation project

Villagers from Sharonkhola Upazila in the Khulna district, a cyclone affected area. Our partner Prodipan supports a tree plantation project which helps protect the village from natural disasters [Claire Goudsmit]

Residents walk on bamboo poles to get to their home in the flooded village of Raotgaon at Lauhajang, 70km (44 miles) from the capital Dhaka [REUTERS/RAFIQUR RAHMAN, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Residents walk on bamboo poles

Residents walk on bamboo poles to get to their home in the flooded village of Raotgaon at Lauhajang, Bangladesh, 70km from the capital Dhaka [REUTERS/RAFIQUR RAHMAN, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Woman using portable cooking stove provided by Caritas [Jean Philippe Debus/CRS]

Bangladesh floods

Portable cooking stoves and other utensils are helping women to prepare food during the flood [Jean Philippe Debus/CRS]

People gather around a tree that fell on a taxi during the cyclone that battered Bangladesh on November 15, 2007 [REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

People gather around a tree

People gather around a tree that fell on a taxi during the cyclone that battered Bangladesh on November 15, 2007 [REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Survivors dry red chillies by the river Paira in Mirzaganj, three days after Cycline Sidr struck on November 15, 2007 [REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Survivors dry red chillies

Survivors dry red chillies by the river Paira in Mirzaganj, three days after Cycline Sidr struck on November 15, 2007 [REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

A man removes tin sheets from his house in Bakerganj, which was damaged by Cyclone Sidr on November 15, 2007 [REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

A man removes tin sheets

A man removes tin sheets from his house in Bakerganj, which was damaged by Cyclone Sidr on November 15, 2007 [REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Storm survivor Abdur Rashid

Storm survivor Abdur Rashid shows the clothes he received from an aid worker at Fasiatala, Bangladesh, following a cyclone which killed thousands in November 2007 [REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman, courtesy www.alertnet.org ]

Baby Sidr was born in a special shelter built to withstand the vicious battering delivered by the cyclone which is her namesake on November 15, 2007 [CAFOD]

Baby Sidr

Baby Sidr was born in a special shelter built to withstand the vicious battering delivered by the cyclone which is her namesake on November 15, 2007 [CAFOD]

The Sikdr family survived Cyclone Sidr but have had to borrow money to repair their house [Melanie Beardon/CAFOD]

Sikdr family from Rampal

The Sikdr family survived Cyclone Sidr but have had to borrow money to repair their house [Melanie Beardon/CAFOD]

Joshna Rani in her small vegetable garden which has helped change her food habits [CAFOD]

Joshna Rani in her vegetable garden

Joshna Rani in her small vegetable garden which has helped change her food habits [CAFOD]

Bangladesh's Social Forestry Programme has set up kitchen gardens, nurseries and orchards, helping families earn an ecologically-friendly living [Julie Bubbers]

Bangladesh's Social Forestry Programme

Bangladesh's Social Forestry Programme has set up kitchen gardens, nurseries and orchards, helping families earn an ecologically-friendly living [Julie Bubbers]

Firoza

Firoza's school was damaged during a cyclone, and rebuilt with help from Caritas Bangladesh. [Marcella Haddad]

Firoza is 11 years old. She lives in Godarkul Village, in the Chittagong region of Bangladesh. [Marcella Haddad]

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Firoza is 11 years old. She lives in Godarkul Village, in the Chittagong region of Bangladesh. [Marcella Haddad]

Sabina Khatun, 9 (in the middle) is the daughter of Momena Khatun, 23, a member of CAFOD partner Prodipan [Kate Stanworth]

Children in Bangladesh

Sabina Khatun, 9 (in the middle) is the daughter of Momena Khatun, 23, a member of CAFOD partner Prodipan [Kate Stanworth]

TIE-Asia helps women form effective unions in order to improve working conditions [CAFOD]

Textile worker at a machine

TIE-Asia helps women form effective unions in order to improve working conditions [CAFOD ]

Akhi Rani Das, 24, points to the muddy fish pond where she used to collect drinking water. CAFOD has helped her family to install a system that collects clean rainwater. [Marcella Haddad]

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Akhi Rani Das, 24, points to the muddy fish pond where she used to collect drinking water. CAFOD has helped her family to install a system that collects clean rainwater. [Marcella Haddad]

A Bangladeshi man carries his son as he wades through chest-deep waters at a flooded village near Sylhet, 186 miles from the capital Dhaka, 10 July, 2004. [Reuters/Rafiqur Rahman, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Bangladesh floods

A Bangladeshi man carries his son as he wades through chest-deep waters at a flooded village near Sylhet, 186 miles from the capital Dhaka, 10 July, 2004. [Reuters/Rafiqur Rahman, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Narayan Dasi from Labsha village, Bangladesh, makes a precarious living weaving baskets from bamboo [Marcella Haddad]

Basket weaving

Narayan Dasi from Labsha village, Bangladesh, makes a precarious living weaving baskets from bamboo [Marcella Haddad]

Amena Begum  has a stable income and can send her daughter to school, thanks to CAFOD's support [Marcella Haddad]

Amena Begum

Amena Begum has a stable income and can send her daughter to school, thanks to CAFOD's support [Marcella Haddad]

Children at Talimpur community school, where hygiene is part of the curriculum [Julie Bubbers]

Children at school

Children at Talimpur community school, where hygiene is part of the curriculum [Julie Bubbers]

Alia Begum, 35. SFP has provided her family with jackfruit trees and mahogany saplings. She was chosen by Caritas to set up a kitchen garden and donated 50% towards the costs of setting up the garden [Marcella Haddad]

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Alia Begum, 35. SFP has provided her family with jackfruit trees and mahogany saplings. She was chosen by Caritas to set up a kitchen garden and donated 50% towards the costs of setting up the garden [Marcella Haddad]

Hasina Moral has been trained to repair and maintain the village well [Julie Bubbers]

Trained caretaker maintains well

Hasina Moral has been trained to repair and maintain the village well [Julie Bubbers]

Image depicting the

Voices from Bangladesh

Image depicting the "Voices from Bangladesh" powerpoint [Marcella Haddad]

Sunderbans forest

The Sundarbans forest [Marcella Haddad]

Mostafizur

Mostafizur, 15, who set up own nursery project where he tends roses and mango trees in Balitha village, Khulna, Bangladesh [Marcella Haddad]

A man walks past armed military personnel patrolling outside shops in Dhaka after a state of emergency was declared in a bid to halt political violence [REUTERS/ADREES LATIF, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Man walks past armed military personnel

A man walks past armed military personnel patrolling outside shops in Dhaka after a state of emergency was declared in a bid to halt political violence [REUTERS/ADREES LATIF, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Published on 21/01/2005, last updated on 20/02/2008