Wow!: Climate-resilient homes in Bangladesh aim to put communities first
MD TAHMID ZAMI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how, while architects and aid groups are investing in climate-proof housing to withstand disasters, they say the Bangladeshi Government must step up…
Fazle Abed, founder of world’s biggest non-government organisation BRAC, dies aged 83
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Fazle Abed, the founder of BRAC, the world’s largest non-governmental development organisation, died on Friday at the age of 83 in his home country of Bangladesh. Abed founded BRAC in 1972 as a small rehabilitation project and over five decades built up the massive operation that worked in 11 countries in […]
Home in body bags – calls for action as Bangladesh migrant deaths spike
Thomson Reuters Foundation Mousumi Akter left her home in rural Bangladesh in 2017 and travelled 5,000 kilometres to work as a maid in Jordan to support her struggling family. In less than two years, she was dead. The young woman was one of 3,793 Bangladeshis who died while working abroad last year, according to newly […]