A father and his son sit inside the doorway of their stilted home, perched above the Pasur River, in Dhangmari, Bangladesh. These houses are designed for places that are prone to flooding, or surrounded by river and sea. Families typically have to rebuild their home each month, due to harsh flooding and rising tides.Momena Beguma is an 85 year old prostitute in the Dhangmari Village, in Bangladesh. Beguma makes about 50 Bangladeshi Taka a day working as a prostitute, which is equivalent to 0.43 United States Dollars. Beguma has done this work for the past 15 years, after her husband died of sickness. She lives with her son and her grandson alongside the Passer River in a stilted home, which has to be rebuilt each year due to flooding and river erosion. There is currently an estimate of 5 million people who live on sand and silt in Bangladesh, and living in this constant migration, due to Climate Change.Ankle deep in silt, a lady fishes for hours along the Pashur River, in Dhangmari, Bangladesh. Dhangmari is known for its increasingly saline water and silty shores.Members of a small fishing community prepare to begin otter fishing, in a small channel off of the Pashur River. Other members clean freshly caugh fish for their next meal.A lady watches from the doorway of a home inside the second largest slum in Bangladesh. Slums are typically unplanned residential areas, living in cement structures, housing hundreds of families. This particular slum had over 20,000 people living there.
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