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Islamic Relief Bangladesh is working to systematically enhance the resilience of the most climate-vulnerable households and communities in Bangladesh through strengthening their adaptive capacity and reducing their risk exposure by supporting households, communities, local government and national institutions to anticipate, plan for and adapt to and recover from climate variability and shocks. We work to support the strengthening, linking and integration of local to national sub-systems through bottom-up planning designed to inform national level development planning and climate finance decisions if favour of the most climate-vulnerable communities and persons.

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Owing to frequent number of disasters, the coastal area is highly vulnerable to water related extreme events. One of the worst impacts of climate change is to force people to take diversified occupation to maintain their livelihood.. Frequent disasters such as floods, droughts, cyclone, and other weather associated phenomena a�ect household’s liveli-hood through the devastation of physical, human as well as social capital. Given emphasize on the above considerations Islamic Relief, Bangladesh is imple-menting "Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Resilience in Bangladesh" project in the coastal areas (South West) as well as in the Haor basin (North East). The project is working to increase the resilience of the vulnerable communi-ties against a changing, uncertain climate, address-ing and underlying factors of poverty and their on-going and projected climate change vulnerabili-ties and risks.

Khalil Majhi’s name was listed as a beneficiary of this project. A small financial support and a guide-line were needed for Khalil Majhi to go forward.As a beneficiary Khalil received a cash grant of 12000 BDT which he invested to buy his own boat and fishing net. As Ramnabad river is a famous breed-ing location of Hilsha fish, so fishing as an occupa-tion has proved profitable for him. Shortly he got returns from his investment.

Reaching at Khalil Majhi’s place was not so easy from Galachipa Upazila headquarters. We had to travel there by boat and then by motorbike. A hut by the riverside, in the yard a small cooking place under some big trees, a homemade hammock was tightened over there. Some cattle were grazing heather and thither. Soon Majhi’s wife appeared from the vegetable garden close to their homestead with a basket full of vegetables while Majhi was seen getting down from his boat with a bag of fish.,

Majhi welcomed us with a cordial smile... We were curious to see his vegetable garden. At beginingwe

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entered his yard and he started describing his interventions.

We started from the riverside vegetable garden. The place is very close to the sea, so tide and ebb happens there periodically. So regular process of cultivation is not possible here. Besides, salt water intrusion is another obstacle in crop production. Over-all, it was tough to get engaged in gardening or cultivation,but with the help of IRB Khalil did it easily. He got some climate adaptive seedsfor free which grow well in salty soil. Khalil tried pumpkin, eggplant, tomato, potato, chilly etc. in his garden and the production was immense. We saw some flourishing bean, cowpea, tomato, lady’s finger etc. in his garden. “We get from

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time to time advice from our brothers of IRB. Besides, if we face prob-lemsin using pesticide or others, we can take help from the upazila agricultural o�ce also.... I have a mobile, so I can contact the UAO o�ce anytime. If not, we contact with the IRB o�cials and they talk to them on behalf of us, ” added by Khalil. He also started a commercial vegetable farm just a few meters away from his residence, another source of income.

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Then he invested his extra income to buy goats. We found a number of healthy goats grazing into his yard. “I have a plan to make a ranch of goats.Bu�alo ranch-ing is one of the most familiar business of this area. There are small and big islands situated here and there, most of them are abandoned after cyclone Sidr. The rich people used to leave their bu�a-los there.At a time two to five hundred bu�alos were left there. A large profit can be attained with a minimum invest-ment.I don’t have that money to manage a big venture. ButI have a plan in managing a small ranch of about fifty to hundred goats. But that will take time”Majhi says.

“...Meanwhile, let’s see my swans and ducks.”

We need not to go anywhere to see them, suddenly we saw twelve to fifteen swans coming towards Khalil’s house. Khalil informed us , “I own half dozen geese and some swans. The geese are now laying eggs regularly”. Besides the swans and geese, he has dozens of chick-ens also. All these were purchased from the income of selling vegetables.

Nowadays Khalil’s commercial activities are not limited to fishing, vegetable gardening or livestock activities. His ultimate target is to be an entrepreneur. Focusing on that target, his wife has also started making some handicrafts. She

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created a self-help group. The main objective of forming this group was building coordination between each other and enhancing livelihood support options. Here members discuss about how to enhance household income by adopting climate adaptive livelihood options. They also started a group savings account. Each member deposits100BDT per month,which is recorded through maintaining passbook. The collective amount is deposited in a savings account opened in a commercial bank.

The members the of self-help froup formed a foodbank also by depositing rice on a regular basis. According to Khalil, “No one knows when cyclone will come. So, we need to be prepared. Household savings is good, but group saving is better. All memberscan borrow rice in their crisis period from this stock”.

We saw an oval shaped green sticker named “Amra Ready” (we are ready) pasted on the

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door of his house. Khalil Majhi stated that, “this green sticker says, I am fully resilient. But there are two more stickers, one is yellow marked and the other is red. Yellow is given to those who have some lackings. Sup-pose he doesn’t have reserve of dry food or his household is not strong enough to be resilient against storm. And the red means,

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he is fully unprepared. He needs to start from the beginning”.

Then we asked him about the flag signals. He replied, “Flag-posts are usually visible in every climate vulnerable areas to show flag-signal in disaster periods. A single flag means to keep a close eye to the situation. 2 flags are shown to get everybody ready to start for the cyclone shelter and 3 flags indicate danger signal and it orders to go to the shelter

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Khalilur Rahman (47) experienced the two devastating cyclones, Sidr and Aila. He was recollectingthe struggling days from his past while a golden ray of the sun was shin-ing in his eyes: “Actually I’m not a boatman, not a fisher-man even. There’re very few occupations that I didn’t try to work out. Digging, day-laboring, assisting in brick-fields, driving auto-van, cultivating land… Only for ourbread and butter. But the bitter experience is, I travelled here and there…. Patuakhali sadar, Barisal, Dhaka… immense places, but couldn’t settle down anywhere. Then I decided to come back in my land. About 10 years ago he made his hut beside Rabanabad river embankmentmade by Water Development Board, as he lost his inherited land in river erosion.Khalilur Rahman, called by Khalil Majhi, village – East Golkhali, Union – Golkhali, Upazila – Galachipa, District – Patuakhali.

Usually the cultivationhere in Golachipa is dependent upon tidal tendency of the rivers and cannels, so agriculture is not so easy here.Salinity impacts very badly on the crop-land fertility. Though the alluvial lands should be fertile as they are situated in the river basin,but continuous aggres-sion of the sea transforms the soil structure and fills up the sweet water cannels into saline waters. This creates a serious impact on the living and livelihood of this marginal population. A deprived cultivator turns into fisherman, inexpert boatman migrates to the town for day-laboring, fishermen tries driving autos in the big cities.

home as soon as possible. But the priority should be the children, older aged people and the disabled. Pregnant mothers should be top priority”. Khalil added from his experience of Aila, “s I saw a number of people floating with the tide. Most of them were children and old aged people. So I know how vulnerable the children, old aged people,disabled and pregnant women feel during the calamities. That is why, I must give them first priority to be sheltered safely.”

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crafts baskets with bamboo andshe makes some paper packets. These baskets are in high demand in the local market, so Khalil can easily sell them . .

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Cultivation costs areare a lot because of the high price of seeds, fertilizerpesticidesand their trans-portation cost remainhigh also.is, a huge number of the male workforce is forced to self-exile every year. Some of them return, but some leave for good never to return.

Livelihood becameabandoned by losing the battle against nature.There was no way to cultivate, aqua-culture, raising cattle; even managing day-laboring jobs became tougher; Beethi Rani Purkayastha was scared thinking about a life in exodus! Life in a swamp means living on the edge. Not only for her family but for the entire village they are starving and do not know what to do.

Bithi’s family was not that of extreme poor, however they were not solvent. They have been living in this village for ninety years. The are the third generation of the Purkayastha family it has su�cient land in the homestead. They have a huge land in the back-yard to be cultivated as a vegetable garden, a small pond and a paddy field of about one and a half acre. But currently they were in danger of slipping into extreme povery due to seasonal flooding and the increasing occurrenceof flash flooding. Most of the previous years they could not manage to cultivate their field. A injury which resulted in a sudden back ache to Pritish Purkayastha which caused a perma-nent carve on his backbone. From then on he is unable to do any rigorouswork. A family with four children and a physically challenged husband have allbecame totally dependent upon her.

This is a common scenario in Hobibpur Haati,almost all the haatis of Sulla arein a very precarious posi-tion. All of them are in poverty and are silentlywait-ing for starvation to overcome their community. Beethi Rani Purkayastha is one of these villagers.

Islamic Relief, Bangladesh started operating there-to increase the resilience of the communities towards climatic variability and changewith a com-prehensive and integrated Resilience Model.The prime objective of this projectnamed“Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Resilience

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Fortunately, Beethi Rani’s name was enlisted as one of the most vulnerable families in the benefi-ciary list of the project. As a result, she got a cash grant of 12000 BDT, of which a part she invested to buy a boat and a fishing net. Beethi said, "first time I got 6000 BDT, I spent it to buy a boat and net. It was wet season then, so having a boat and net may help us to gener-ate some extra income from fishing. Another 6000 I got after two months when the swamp started drying out. So I bought a cow with 8000 BDT adding 2000 BDT from the income of the fish business."

In addition,Beethi started garden-ing in her backyard with the help of IRB. She didn’t know how to grow short-term vegetables and crops, so did not try gardening seriously. IRB trained her how to cultivate in sandy soil. They supplied her climate adaptive seeds at free of cost. All the vegetables grew well but production of pumpkin was colossal. From each plant shegot more than 50 pcs of pumpkin with

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a sale price onaverage 100 to 150 BDT for each. Besides pumpkin, potato, gourd, chilly, lady’s finger, radish, eggplant, tomato, bean and di�erent kinds of leaves grew well in her vegetable garden. The vege-table garden helped her to achieve year-long food security as well as an extra income from the surplus produce.

The bag gardening isa unique cultivation system implemented by IRB. It is quitean easy systemto comprehend and Bithi has adopted the

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process to cultivate vegetables. She filled half of a waterproof sac with soil. Then planted sweet pumpkin into it and let the bag stay in a suitable place within her garden. The plant grows as usually, but if any calamity like flood or high tide comes, the bag can be easily moved over the roof or to be hung ina big tree. The swampy territories are the best places to practice this innovative culture.

Then she took us to her pond to show her geese and ducks. She bought the ducks with the profit from her vegetable garden. Besides the ducks, she has a plan to add some chickens also so that she could fulfill her family’s need of protein.. Beethi has planned to make a goose-farm having at least fifty to sixty birds. Her husband can easilymanage the farm, as he’s unable to do strenu-ouswork.

Meanwhile, her husband Pritish was not sitting idle by. In wet season he used to go fishing by using his boat. From the fishing business income, he leased some croplands and cultivated there a short-time growing genre of Boro paddy. He said, “it will take at best one and half month to harvest, before the wet season starts”. He Also thanked IRB for suggesting him this early variety of paddy. IRB always helps farmers like Pritish and others to choose the best type of seeds which is adaptive to chang-ing climate. IRB also helpsin training the farmers to use organic fertilizers and pesticides so that their production cost may decrease.

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With the help of the self-help group, they also have started culturing di�erent climate adap-tive interventions, disaster mitigation, preparedness and capacity building for alter-native income generating activities. Usually they sit down twice a month. One of the meet-ings is coordinated by the group members, while the other is done by the IRB representa-tives. In group meetings IRB gives training to the community on climate smart agriculture, disaster preparedness, di�erent climate adap-tive livelihood options, importance of savings, sanitation, homestead safetyand community resilience.

Learning from the IR o�cials, Beethi and her community has been practicing some house-hold level interventions as a part of their disas-ter preparedness. Some of these activities are, building a homestead in a higher place, setting up tube wells in higher places with a concrete platform andmaking sanitary latrines. The communities have planted some special kinds of quick growing trees like Korcha&Hijal so that they can resist the high tide to protect the haatis. These tree walls are very e�ective to resist the huge tides called “Afal” usually raised at the mid of the wet seasons.

When flood watersflow, di�erent kinds of diseases like skin disease, diarrhea, dysentery break in epidemically. Using proper sanitation and pure water is of utmost importance and need to be protected. All these interventions are regularly practiced in these meetings. IRB o�cials use resources such asflip-chart,ban-nersand festoons to make the lessons easyto-comprehend.

Hobibpur has introduced solar electricity that has changed the lifestyle of these marginal communities. evenings are not filled with dark-ness and the infants have no option but to sleep but they have been transformed to study

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sessions and evenings of learning. Almost all the households have mobile phones; no one needs to go to the town to charge the battery, as they have electricity in their own place. They had radios, now some of themhave TVs also. IRB played an important role in connecting most of the households using limited resources using just a small solar panel has trans-formedtheir lives.

According to Beetihi, “when our cattle su�er from any disease, we call our brothers of IRB they help us to communicate with the livestock o�ce. If the o�cers are busy, IR calls a Para-vet to visit our place and treat our animals”.

IRB is advancing their beneficia-ries to be apart of the comprehen-sive and integrated Resilience Model, which consists of five major levels (Household Level, Commu-nity Level, Upazila Level, District Level, and National Level), which are all related to each other through sequential relationships. As we knew previously that the beneficiaries of IRB have formed a livelihood support group of their own, the group has a practice to ask suggestions from the mem-bers about the common issues they are facing. Those suggestions are compiled regularly and the most commonly raised and e�ec-tive suggestions are placed to the higher forum called Ward Disaster Management Committee – WDMC. The UDMC’s smaller unit WDMC is formed with the participation of the key peopleof the ward and headed by the councilors/mem-

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bers of the ward. So placing any proposal to the WDMC means it is placed to the UDMC. Following the same way, all these five levels are sequentially inter-related. So a beneficiary like Beethi from an extreme remote place of the country can express her views and urges to the upazila level following the chain.

Under community resilience program, IRB set up a milestone by implementing a project called Killa. Killa is a large flat platform situated on a higher place from usual tidal water level. IRB has constructed three Killas in three di�erent unions., the beneficiaries and the community also participated voluntarily. Now the bene-ficiaries can demand to the government that these Killas should be surrounded properly with a wall so that the high tide doesn’t wash out soil from their edge. Inspired by a IRB initiative the government has also

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started making a Killa at Hobibpur union,this will be com-pleted before the next rainy season.

Beethi is well prepared against natural calamities. She has built her house in a high land, made it strong enough anddisaster-resilient. She has reserves of dry food, medi-cine, portable stove with fire wood, fire box andcandles. she is quite aware of climate change impact, disaster resilience modules and other climate adaptation issues. Beethi has passed successfully the barrier to be a disas-ter resilientbeneficiary.

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It was a foggy morning when we reached at Beethi Rani Purkayastha’s yard. Mr. Purkayastha welcomed us with a big smile. It was a pleasant journey from Dhaka to Dirai,Suna-mganj, but all our joy was short lived as we reached Sulla Sadar by motorbike. Therewas no specific road left, the bikes were traversingover the o�-road tracks rather than on the road it was most hazardous.We travelled this14 kilome-ters distance to Hobibpur by motorcycle, by boat and on foot.

Beethi was looking anxious. However it was not that, she was worried about how she could entertain us, but she was concerned about her cow! The animal was not taking any of her meals from the last 20 hours and it looked feeble and weak by the time we arrived. Fortunately, an APO brother of IR, B had a valuble contact of a community vaccinator;he called him to visit the place immediately. Beethi was very pleased and her anxiety subsided. .

Sulla of Sunamganj is a diverse lowland which is character-ized by flash flood submersions for long durations ofduring the year. . . As a result, the basin, locally called Haor, becomes fully detached from the mainland of the country. The small villages end up being separate islands struggling to survive... Motorcycle is the only transportation, otherwise one will have to go on foot, there isno other way to reach the upazila parishad.

The Adverse nature of this lowland make it one of the most climate-vulnerable territories of the country. During the wet season, floods and flash floodinginundates everything on field and during the dry season because of changing climate,transformed soil structure and the higher cultivation costs the farmers are very reluctant to start cultivation again.

Another income generating intervention integrated was the farming of fish along with their paddy field. The irrigated paddy fields became an aquarium of fishes like tilapia, nilotica, tiger prawn etc. With a minimum cost the Purkayastha family cultivates fish to meet their household need and also earn extra money from selling the surplus of the production.

Now Beethi Rani, ismore capable to face the climatic vulnerability and ensure food

security for her family, she hasjoined a self-help group which is a livelihood support group. The beneficiaries of IRB formed the group to share their own intervention with each other so that the entire community can share the benefits. They started the group saving mecha-nisms. Each member deposits 50 BDT each a month and maintains a pass book for accounts. The total collection goes to a group savings account in a commercial bank. IR representatives give them a

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lished himself as a role model of his community.

Ali’s story was not sameas his shining present. When cyclone Aila and its aftermath had devastat-ed Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat and other coastal regions of the country and the inhabitants of these districts were struggling to survive, , at that time some people stood up to fight back and not to give up till the last breath.

Kalinchi is a small village situated in Ramjannagar Union of Shyamnagar Upazila, Satkhira. The villagers feel proud of being the inhabitants of Sundarbans, the biggest mangrove forest of the world. But after Aila in 2009 the scenario of the village had changed. Ali was recollectingthat afternoon when the furious cyclone Aila came and devastated the entire lowland.

Ali had a pond full of cultivated fish. The pond was showing him a dream of becoming rich overnight, but Aila didn’t give him a chance to do so, it ruined everything in a moment. But the courageous Ali decided not to give up, “we will go forward” he said.

At that time,Islamic Relief, Bangladesh stood beside him and many other survivors by imple-menting "Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Resilience in Bangladesh" project in the coastal areas (South West) as well as in the Haor basin (North East). This project is working to

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increase resilience of the vulnerable communities against a changing, uncertain climate addressing and underlying factors of poverty and their on-going and projected climate change vulnerabilities and risks.

Aila caused salt water intrusion and turned the sweet-water ponds and streams to saline reserves, it changed the nature of the cultivating lands. Salinity of the cropland is still yet to recover. As a result, the traditional agricultural system does not work. The farmers become frustrated to see such bad

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The same thing happened to aquaculture also. Sweet-water fishes cannotsurvive in salinity.

Islamic Relief has been working here from the very beginning.The poor and extreme poor families werelisted to get support financial-ly as well as in capacity building. Ali was chosen under that program and given a grant of 12000 BDT to start a business. He invested this amount in cultivating fish and crab in his pond. Some

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salt-water tolerant fish like Tilapia, Nilotica, tiger-prawn grew in his pond beyond his expectation. At least 20000 BDTin sales was his return He used the profit to cultivate coral fish and attained the profit of 10000 BDT. With the amount he bought a cow, some swans, geese, ducks and some chick-ens. IRB trained him how to grow vege-tables in salty landand also supplied him with climate-adaptive seeds. His vegetable garden became a lavishing green-pad. .

But Ali didn’t limit his interventions inside his yard. He started cultivating his inherited cropland and bought some new lands from his recent income from crop production. He first cultivated some climate-adaptive genre of paddy. IRB took it as a laboratory field and kept his production under close observation.

Besides paddy, they tried for wheat and barley production.. Cultivation of barley is still not so familiar in Bangladesh, but IRB took it as an experimental cultiva-tion. One of the reasons was, this crop can grow with a minimum irrigation in salty soil..The UNO of Shyamnagar Upa-zila thanked IRB for implementing this new crop and informed us that not only Kalinchi, but some other unions also have come under coverage of barley cultivation. The government is taking the initiative to spread barley cultiva-tion to the other districts.

Another identical intervention we saw in Ali’s residence was a straw-made drop wall.. The false-shade protects his clay-

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my pond or not. Is this fish salinity tolerant? … Then I called DPM brother of IRB for an answer. He then called to the Upa-zila Fisheries O�ce and talked to them on behalf of me.” And this way, they solved the other issues related with livestock, hatchery, poultry I had also.

Ali’s self-resilience model also includes a disaster preparedness campaign named “Amra Ready” (we are ready). This is an integrated campaign including pre-disas-ter, on disaster and post-disaster resilience modules. The pre-disaster preparedness includes storing dry foods, med-icine, oral saline, portable stove with dry fire-woods, candles and firebox, saving coins in plastic bank, preserving useful documents and certificates in waterproof plastic

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bags.Keeping a close eye to the signaling flag posts and acting accordingly by watching 1, 2 or 3 flag signals.All the habitants must construct their household with proper enforcement so that it can stand still in any calamity. Ali has successfully fulfilled all the conditions and obtained a green sticker that shows he is fully ready to be a resilient.

In the afternoon Ali invited us to visit his livelihood support group, to whom he used to be the presi-dent. We walked towards another locality of Kalinchi village, where the meeting was being held.

Ali addressed the group mem-bers and started their meeting. He collected the money of the monthly savings from the mem-bers and then collected rice from them. He described to us later, “the monetary fee we collect on a monthly basis and deposit it to a savings account in a local branch of a large commercial bank. IRB helped us open the account.The rice is for a food bank,here every-body can deposit his part. But no obligation, If anyone fails to give, no problem. How much you deposited iswritten in your pass-book.When you are in need, you can get back the same amount

Ali’s LivelihoodFight Back

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you deposited, even you can borrow something more, we don’t mind, but when you can overcome the crisis, you have to refund the loan. But the savingsbalance we are planning to invest in is a collective interven-tion."

Then Ali started to discuss some other agendas like agriculture, aquaculture, livestock, vegetable garden-ing and also discussed about capacity building to become disaster-resilient.He learned these things from the IR o�cials. he is also a member of WDMC,.. Now issues like climate change, global warmingare familiar to the villagers.

When Ali’s group discussion came to an end, the IRB representative started coordinating a training session on the basics of disaster resilience modules using modern apparatus like flip-chart, banners, festoon

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and di�erent books so that the audience can better understand.

We also learned from the meeting about the disaster periods and disas-ter risk reduction activities. Almost all the climatic disaster happen in fourspecific months these are called the vulnerable periods of disaster risk. These are the two months of summer (middle of March to mid of May) and the other two months of late autumn (mid of August to mid of October). The other eight months are apparently risk-free, so anyone can cultivate vegetables, quick growing crops aswell as keep their ponds full of fish and crab. During these months the inhabitants of the

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vulnerable areas like the southern costal belt should be alert for any sudden disaster. The houses or huts in the vulnerable areas should be built with enforced technolo-gy, on high land so that it may stand resilient against stormy wind and flood or high tide. Besides, they need to be prepared to go to the cyclone shelter whenever need may arise.and to go there, they must have some house-hold preparation to leave home for short notice.

As we all know Bangladesh remains in the most vulnera-

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ble belt of natural calamities. So it is likely impossible to avoid the natu-ral disasters. But a proper preparedness strategy can demolish its e�ects.

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When we reached at Kalinchi of Ramjannagar union, we found Ali rushing out of his yard. He was stopped by us and described shortly that he got a problem with his paddy field. Sheaf of paddy was getting viscous. If he failed to take immediate action, it would be ruined within few days. So, he had not a single minute to waste talking with us.

We became perplexed. We had travelled the whole night to meet him early in the morning. And the matter was so seri-ous that we could say nothing to stop him for a while. Before disappearing, Ali requested us to be seated inside his residence and committed to get back soon. The DPM of Islamic Relief, Bangladesh was guiding us to the trip.. He took his mobile and called the UNO of Shyamnagar upazila. “UNO is an agriculturist too, and he always welcomes people to discuss about any agriculture related prob-lem.”stated by DPM brother. UNO attended the call in a single ring and heard about the problem. He advised him to take a snap of the sheaf so that he could understand the problem easily. We sent the image of paddy. . . Within a moment he got a reply that a UAO is being sent immediate-ly to visit the field. Ali was taken back when we informed him that his problem was about to be solved.

Khan Jahan Ali. Khan Jahan Ali (23) had already estab-

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Shamima was contemplating that gloomy afternoon of 2009, seating over the embankment, , “When I saw Aila coming from that particular direction, I thought it was the doomsday! I rushed to my hut and found my younger daughter sleeping on the bed. suddenly I saw water in my house. Water level was rising very fast and soon it got up to my knee! I kept my daughter over a big trunk but it was not su�-cient. And I was late by then because outside my hut water was immeasurable! Meanwhile the sky was totally covered under the dark cloud and it was totally dark outside though it was only afternoon, I was truly scared.…”

That darkness resided, but Shamima’s fate was yet to shine. Her day-labor husband, 3 little daughters and a semi-disabled mother in law started strug-gling with her to survive the disaster. They took shelter in upazila proper and had some minimal relief from the water

Shamima was not prepared for the disaster, so she lost everything to Aila except her homestead. But Aila could not lose her courage. That courage forced her to go back to her homestead rather than being migrated to any big town like many others. She decided to stay put and make her life better for herself and her family

So, Shamima decided to do something to bear the

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family responsibility. She had a sewing machine and some skill of tailoring. She tried making dresses for her neighbors. She had to be satisfied with the making charge only. Then suddenly she got to know that Islamic Relief, Bangladesh, an NGO was making a list of the extreme poor families and asking them about their plans of investment.If any plan was found feasible and the family was eligible to get the grant, they would provide them the grant. Shamima rushed out to them and described her plan of opening a self-su�cient tailoring shop. As the near-est tailoring shop was at least 14 to 15 kilometers far away from the locality,. Her name was listed as a beneficiary of IRB and granted for a non-refunded amount of 12000 BDT.

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Although she is the entrepreneur, she listed her mother in law’s name instead of her own! Shamima received motherly love and a�ections from her mother in law who was bedridden and su�ering from old-age So, as a return of that love and a�ection, Shamima wished to name her tailoring business on her mother-in-laws name and remained satis-fied being a nominee of her. Shamima invested the total grant to purchase fabric for her tailoring shop and within few weeks she became popular among community.

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Shamima’s start was at the right time, because just after few days the holy month of Ramadan started and every family rushed to her for making Eid dresses.. Thus she could manage to finish her entire stock the profit was used to purchase a new batch of fabric. Durga Puja Shamima got the profit of 35000 BDT by investing 20000 BDT only.

However, she engaged herself not only in the tailoring shop,but also planned to invest the profit in growing vegetables. My husband Shahjahan showed some interest and took the responsibility of the vegetable garden. We got some seedsand training support from our IRB brother.Then we began to sow some pumpkin and gourd seeds and it was a huge production.

The IRB had instructed them about the modern gardening techniques practically. They imple-menteda bedding process for gardening. They also taught them how to sow seeds. Thus the farmers got a huge production of eggplants, tomato, potato, chilly etc. and cash had been refunded as profit.

She has ascertained food security for the first time in her life. she started selling the surplus produce and used the money in purchasing some geese and ducks, chicken and goats.

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tilapia, nilotica, tiger prawn etc. in her irrigated paddy field and the canal surrounding her cropland. She invested about 5000 BDT for minnows and is optimistic to get more than BDT 20000 BDT in returns.

We asked her about the maintenance of her cultivation, cattle rising and aquaculture, she replied, “I have received training from IRB. They helped me in choosing climate-adaptive seeds for my garden and cropland. They also gifted me some fruit trees. Even if I get a problem with my goats or chicken, they will help me in solving the issue. They contact on my behalfwith the agriculture o�ce or livestock o�ce or fisheries department if we need any assistance..”

Shamima and the other beneficiaries of Islamic Relief have created a self-help group which is basically a livelihood support group but also focuses on disaster preparedness issues. Twice a month they meetthe meetings are coordi-nated by them-selves and the other is by the IR o�cials. They learned importance of savings and they set a monthly payable system to the members which are collected

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through mainaining pass book. This collection is deposited to a commercial bank so that it remains safe and earns some profit as well. The members deposit rice from their household to build a food bank for using in the disaster period. Portable stove, dry fire-woods, firebox and candle is preserved in each member’s household. They also preserve dry food, medicine with oral saline, coins in plastic boxes and their important documents and papers into waterproof plastic pouch.

Shamima is confident enough to face the calamities in future. Because she is ready. An oval shaped green sticker is pasted on her door showing “Amra Ready” (we are ready). This campaign is a preparedness program to mitigate the disaster risks so that one can decrease the damages of the calamity.

She is well prepared against natu-ral calamities. She has built her house in a high land, made it strong enough as disaster-resil-ient. She has reserves of dry food, medicine, portable stove with fire

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wood, fire box, candle etc. and she is quite aware of climate change impact, disaster resilience module and other climate adaptation issues she has developed a strong resilience to disaster.

Shamima knows the importance of savings, because she had to su�er from starvation.She hasplanned to buy a cow for milk supply aswell as extending her cattle venture..

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She also plans to carry on her daughters’ education. She said, “People say, girl child is a curse, but my parents didn’t think like that. They sent me to school. I passed the SSC exam, but couldn’t continue my studyas my father died suddenly. But I’ll struggle to fulfill my incomplete dreams by implying them to my daughters. They will study as much as they can. I must not experience same for my daughters, the su�erings I faced to struggle againstmoth-

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er nature. They deserve an easy lifeand I must give it to them, I promise. And if I succeed, only then our struggle may come to an end.”

on returning we heard the noise of the roaring Kapotakkho. Shamima’s voice was overlapping theroar – They deserve an easy life, and I must give it to them, I promise...!

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“Each and every day passes by and I lose my patience. I cannot sleep thinking of the morning – what to do in the next morning? How can I manage my daughters’ meal? Today we have nothing, is there anything for tomorrow ? … The whole day we used to make ourselves busy in collecting grasses and leafs and dry them as fire-stu�sfor stove. I pretend to my daughters that their father will retun with a bag-full of yummy foods. But in the evening Sumaya’s father used to return barehanded, saying he worked accordingly but did not get paid! How could they do this? If they can’t a�ord to employ him, then why they appointe him to work? But he said, they didn’t want him to work, he labored willingly with a hope that when it finishes, they would be happy to pay something. But the reality was, the employers were also starving… I thought how long we’d invest our labor without any return?” – We were listening to Shamima Khatun from East Ghatakhali near Kapotakkho river, as she was telling her experience of Aila and its aftermath.It is a story of a community who are engaged in an endless battle to survive,. Shamima Khatun.

Shamima Shows the Way to Resilient Livelihood

Shamima’s husband left day-laboring and engaged himself ingardening and raising goats. Two of her daughters are -going to school, so she set up a solar electricity panel to help their study during the evenings. She has a plan to send them to good schools and to complete their education up to Masters level.

To implement all these plans a large amount of money was needed. She leased some croplandswith her savings for cultiva-tion,where she sowed a climate adaptive

variety of quick growing Boro paddy. With a minimum cost of organic fertilizer and pesticides she got t a substantial produc-tion of salt tolerant paddy. She took us to her land and told us optimistically, “I hope, my yearlong need of rice will be mitigated from the production of this fieldI’ll have some savings also.”

Another income generating activity we found in Shamim’s homestead was cultiva-tion of fish along with the paddy at the same time. She cultivated fishes like

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