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Article: Bangladeshis learn flood survival; Basic education has helped to significantly reduce death tolls.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 11, 2005
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Byline: David Montero Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
KURIGRAM, BANGLADESH -- Each year the floods come with greater force, but each year the women of Holokhana Shunashi are ready.
Like much of Bangladesh, their small village in the north is poor and highly vulnerable to annual floods. Last year, 40 percent of Bangladesh was inundated after a severe one-day rain like the one recently in Bombay (Mumbai), India.
In the past, such conditions might have spelled disaster when the monsoon floodwaters arrived between June and September.
But for several years now, the women have found refuge in a simple ritual, underscoring how ...