Things must to do in bangladesh
After her husband suddenly
abandoned her. She returned to
her father only to face another
blow: he died soon after, leavi
ng her to shoulder three othe
r family members’ care.
Without any work, the 29-year-old was worried about feeding them.
“I lost everything. There was darkness all around,” Khatun said. “My parents’ home was gone to the river for erosion, we had no land to cultivate.”
She ended up working at a factory in a special economic zone that employs thousands of climate refugees – like Khatun – in the southwestern town of Mongla, where Bangladesh’s second-largest seaport is located.


