Bangladesh
Initial indications from the first nutritional assessment in flood stricken Bangladesh show that 22 per cent of children under five are malnourished. Save the Children (UK), which carried out the rapid assessment, fears that this will lead to increased malnutrition…
Bangladesh
By Nizam Ahmed DHAKA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - About 800 men, women and children cram together in disease-ridden squalor in a tiny school building in Bangladesh's flooded capital, the water lapping at their feet. Clean water is scarce and hygiene almost impossible…
Bangladesh
Christian Aid today launched a public appeal for Bangladesh as the worst floods in living memory submerge the country (Hotline number 0345 000300). Kevin McCullough, head of Christian Aid s Youth Team, is visiting Bangladeshi organisations funded by Christian Aid…
Bangladesh
Oxfam launches an appeal today to help the people of South Asia survive the worst floods in living memory. Nayeem Wahra, Oxfam's emergency co-ordinator in Dhaka, said: 'We're sitting on a time bomb. Millions of people are living in the…
Bangladesh
A Bangladeshi aid worker is appealing to Kiwis to give generously to help his homeland currently facing the worst flooding in living memory. Up to two-thirds of Bangladesh is covered in water threatening the lives of 30 million men, women…
Bangladesh
By Serajul Islam Quadir DHAKA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The prices of food and other essentials rose sharply in Bangladesh on Friday, and traders blamed mainly panic buying because of the floods. "This is a result of panic buying, especially after…
Bangladesh
By Mustak Hossain SHAHIDNAGAR, Bangladesh, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Bangladeshis fighting for survival in the country's worst floods said on Friday they could only live with their miseries. "Many have left and found refuge in shelters...but I cannot abandon my home.…
Bangladesh
The UN World Food Programme plans to launch a major relief operation for nearly 20 million people in Bangladesh left destitute by the longest lasting floods ever recorded in the country, WFP said today. "In terms of numbers of people to…
Bangladesh
The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre in Bangladesh says rivers are rising again in the country's worst floods this century. 12 rivers were flowing above danger level, further threatening 18 inundated districts and cities across central Bangladesh. As foreign embassies prepared…
Bangladesh
CARE Provides Food Though New Nutrition and Health Centers ATLANTA, September 10, 1998 -- In inundated areas in the capital city of Dhaka, CARE has opened 10 health and nutrition centers, providing cooked rice and lentils, bread, clean drinking water and…
