SmugMug > all-time keyword > development > partially completed houses under development near xylofagou village between dhekelia and ayia napa republic of cyprus Xylofagou is one of the fastest growing towns/villages in Cyprus due to massive house building nearby
SmugMug > all-time keyword > development > Minara Begum (35 years old) works in her 1/2 acre vegetable field that she owns with her husband in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. 

BRAC encouraged Minara Begum to grow vegetables in her land. To kick start vegetable cultivation, BRAC provided hybrid seeds, fertilizer and money to erect machans for growing vegetables like pumpkins. She now grows tomatoes, sweet pumpkin, korela and other vegetables.  Both her children go to school. Her 12-years old daughter attends grade 7 and 15-years-old son is in grade 9. They earn approximately Taka 25,000/year from vegetables she grows in two seasons.
SmugMug > all-time keyword > development > Minara Begum (35 years old) works in her 1/2 acre vegetable field that she owns with her husband in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. 

BRAC encouraged Minara Begum to grow vegetables in her land. To kick start vegetable cultivation, BRAC provided hybrid seeds, fertilizer and money to erect machans for growing vegetables like pumpkins. She now grows tomatoes, sweet pumpkin, korela and other vegetables.  Both her children go to school. Her 12-years old daughter attends grade 7 and 15-years-old son is in grade 9. They earn approximately Taka 25,000/year from vegetables she grows in two seasons.
SmugMug > all-time keyword > development > Minara Begum (35 years old) sits in a field in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. 

BRAC encouraged Minara Begum to grow vegetables in 1/2 acre land she owns with her husband Faroque Faraz (47 years). To kick start vegetable cultivation, BRAC provided hybrid seeds, fertilizer and money to erect machans for growing vegetables like pumpkins. She now grows tomatoes, sweet pumpkin, korela and other vegetables.  Both her children go to school. Her 12-years old daughter attends grade 7 and 15-years-old son is in grade 9. They earn approximately Taka 25,000/year from vegetables she grows in two seasons.
SmugMug > all-time keyword > development > Minara Begum (35 years old) sits in a field in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. 

BRAC encouraged Minara Begum to grow vegetables in 1/2 acre land she owns with her husband Faroque Faraz (47 years). To kick start vegetable cultivation, BRAC provided hybrid seeds, fertilizer and money to erect machans for growing vegetables like pumpkins. She now grows tomatoes, sweet pumpkin, korela and other vegetables.  Both her children go to school. Her 12-years old daughter attends grade 7 and 15-years-old son is in grade 9. They earn approximately Taka 25,000/year from vegetables she grows in two seasons.
SmugMug > all-time keyword > development > Minara Begum (35 years old) carries a basket full of vegetable in Porbo Rajair village of Khonta Kata Union in Sharankhola Thana. 

BRAC encouraged Minara Begum to grow vegetables in 1/2 acre land she owns with her husband Faroque Faraz (47 years). To kick start vegetable cultivation, BRAC provided hybrid seeds, fertilizer and money to erect machans for growing vegetables like pumpkins. She now grows tomatoes, sweet pumpkin, korela and other vegetables.  Both her children go to school. Her 12-years old daughter attends grade 7 and 15-years-old son is in grade 9. They earn approximately Taka 25,000/year from vegetables she grows in two seasons.
SmugMug > all-time keyword > development > Carrying Maria, her young daughter, Laizu Begum (28 years old) walks through a paddy-field in Bogi Santh Ghar village of South Khali Union in Sharankhola  Thana. Bangladesh.

She has three other children. Her husband works as a day labourer in other people’s land as a farmer. In high season, he gets about Taka 150/day. Since  Sharankhola Union was worst hit by cyclone Sidr in 2007, her house was also destroyed completely. Now, slowly, they are trying to put pieces of their house as well as their lives together.

Every few years Bangladesh keeps getting battered by some of the worst natural disasters in the world. It is so frequent that let alone internationals, even Bangladeshis  do not considering it a real disaster unless death toll reaches several thousands. Every time a disaster hit, a ‘new normal’ is set. There is a tendency to measure intensity of disasters by the number of dead.  Much of Bangladesh gets flooded every year, but as flood does not kill people, it hardly makes news unless it enters an urban centre like Dhaka. Regardless of how it is measured, the cyclone Sidr that hit southern Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, was one of the fiercest cyclones in last 131 years, leaving over 4,000 people dead and millions affected.

Like any other disaster in Bangladesh, the real story is not how many people died or got affected, but how people managed to survive. Bangladeshis have to be some of the most resilient people in the world.
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partially completed houses under development near xylofagou village between dhekelia and ayia napa republic of cyprus Xylofagou is one of the fastest growing towns/villages in Cyprus due to massive house building nearby
 > partially completed houses under development near xylofagou village between dhekelia and ayia napa republic of cyprus Xylofagou is one of the fastest growing towns/villages in Cyprus due to massive house building nearby
partially completed houses under development near xylofagou village between dhekelia and ayia napa republic of cyprus Xylofagou is one of the fastest growing towns/villages in Cyprus due to massive house building nearby
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