Posts Tagged ‘Bangladesh’

Sirajganj, Bangladesh

SIRAJGANJ, BANGLADESH – AUGUST 11, 2004

Just two weeks ago this had been Sharikon’s, 10, home, today it is just sand. The water came in the night fast and merciless. Her family and four neighbors lost everything but their lives. Sharikon is mute but her neighbor Abul Dewan and LPS Secratary for the village of Chawhara had helped the family flee to the safety of the CARE built flood shelter. “The children were terrified. Everyone feared they’d be swept away in the rushing torrent,” he explained. “Four houses once stood on this homestead and it was only 25 meters from the flood shelter, but today it is nothing.” (more…)

Every Mother Counts

When supermodel/mom, Christy Turlington experienced child birth complications, she learned that 500,000 women die each year during child birth and that 90% of these deaths are preventable.

This was a catalytic moment.  A few years later, she enrolled in a Masters Program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and began working on “No Woman, No Cry”, a documentary about maternal mortality world wide.

A year after the movie’s world premiere at Tribeca Film festival, Turlington and her crew are back in Bangladesh to meet the women they filmed an interviewed two and a half years ago.

Read more about Turlington’s trip to Bangladesh and enjoy the pictures taken by our chief photographer, Josh Estey:

http://www.everymothercounts.org/news/2011/06/back-bangladesh-day-1-june-20-2011