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small village near Sundarbans, Bangladesh

January 2009

Nepal, April 2008

location: rural Bangladesh, in a village near the border with India, Assam.

date: Dec 2008

aged 15, she is the most innocent and young mom I have ever met.

a kid takes her brunch in a mud house.

location: rural Bangladesh, Khulna District, Sathkhira Division, a rural village of Buddhist minorities South of the Sundarbans

date: Dec 2008

"Over the course of 2007 and 2008, the increase in prices of basic food commodities and fuel exposed the poorest segments of society to severe pressure.

An additional 7.5 million people joined the ranks of the hungry, largely as a result of high food prices, bringing the number of people who consume less than the minimum daily recommended amount of food to 65 million, or 45% of the population."

www.wfp.org/countries/bangladesh

exploring channels in the Sundarbans. the early evening mist had just started coming in.

The Sundarbans (Bengali: সুন্দরবন Shundorbôn) is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world.[1] "Sundarban" literally means "beautiful jungle" or "beautiful forest" in the Bengali language(Sundar= beautiful , bans = forest / jungle). The name Sundarbans may also have been derived from the Sundari trees that are found in Sundarbans in large numbers. Other possible explanations can be a derivation from "Samudraban" (Bengali: সমুদ্রবন Shomudrobôn "Sea Forest") or "Chandra-bandhe" (name of a primitive tribe). But the generally accepted view is the one associated with Sundari trees.[1]
The forest lies at the mouth of the Ganges and is spread across areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, forming the seaward fringe of the delta. The seasonally-flooded Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests lie inland from the mangrove forests. The forest covers 10,000 sq.km of which about 6,000 are in Bangladesh.[2] It became inscripted as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1997, but while the Bangladeshi and Indian portions constitute the same continuous ecotope, these are separately listed in the UNESCO world heritage list as the Sundarbans and Sundarbans National Park, respectively.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundarbans