Posts Tagged ‘photography’

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…)

Frisian Flag Waste Water Treatment

South Jakarta suburb, a classic Indonesian house, two children licking a can of sweet condensed milk under an oversized teak dining table…Yep, that was me, my brother, and one of our ‘sweetest’ childhood memory. (Ah! I said it! I used the pun! sorry…it was too hard to avoid)

I would never have thought that twenty somewhat years later, we would actually have the opportunity to work with the people who ‘produce’ this very can of condensed milk.

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