| ULAB-ISD supported documentary at Alliance Française de Dhaka |
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From Saturday, October 02 2010 - 8:00am
To Friday, October 15 2010 - 5:00pm
Every day |
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ISD-ULAB provides research supports in making documentary “Solidarites International: Restoring Lives” -
In partnership with the Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD), University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), and Solidarites International developed a documentary and a photography exhibition to enlighten the situation of the AILA affected people, their remaining needs and the challenges they still face more than a year after this natural disaster. The exhibition was inaugurated on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 6.00 pm at the Alliance Française de Dhaka, in Dhanmondi. The Chief Guest was His Excellency the French Ambassador, Mister Charley Causeret; Guests of Honor were Mustak Hassan Md. Iftekhar, General Director of the NGO Affairs Bureau, and Professor Rafiqul Islam, Vice Chancellor, ULAB.
The exhibition will continue from October 2 to October 15, 2010 at the Alliance Française. The documentary will be screened on October 8 at 5.30 pm, and again on October 15 at 5.30 pm.
These exhibition will also showcase Solidarites International’s response and will share the challenges and best practices in the field of WASH and Shelter in this specific context of coastal area.
More than one year after AILA cyclone hit Bangladesh in May 2009, affecting 3.9 million people in the country, thousands of families remain displaced, living on embankments in makeshift shelters. Embankment reparation still needs to be achieved and hundreds of villages are flooded during each high tide. People living in the affected areas, both those displaced and those who returned to their land, face difficulties to access safe drinking water due to the salinity of the water and to the destruction of the water infrastructures. Basic sanitation facilities are lacking as well, in terms of quantity, quality and privacy- particularly for women and girls. As a result, water-borne diseases are widespread in the area. Furthermore, household shelters have also been severely damaged due to breaches of the embankments. Solidarites International intervened immediately after AILA to restore access to water and sanitation and carries on with its action by working in Satkira and Khulna districts restoring access to safe drinking water, sanitation and basic housing conditions. |
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