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\nBizly Begum and her family moved to Dhaka, the megacity capital of Bangladesh<\/p>\n
Few countries in the world are more vulnerable to the impact of climate change than Bangladesh in south Asia.<\/b><\/p>\n
Intensified monsoon floods, riverbank erosion and rising sea levels displace 700,000 Bangladeshis each year.<\/b><\/p>\n
In the final of our special reports from Bangladesh, reporter Kate Varley and cameraman Bram Verbeke visited Dhaka to hear how the climate migration crisis is shaping the country’s capital.<\/b><\/p>\n
The first time Bizly Begum\u2019s home was swept away by the river, her husband Khairul rebuilt it higher up the bank.<\/p>\n
But not high enough.<\/p>\n
Twice more the rising waters claimed their modest shelter, as the scale of river erosion in their home region of Bhola accelerated.<\/p>\n
Eventually, Bizly and Khairul came to accept that this way of living was no longer sustainable.<\/p>\n
And so, they reluctantly packed their bags and moved to Dhaka, the megacity capital of Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
2,000 climate migrants each day arrive in Dhaka<\/b><\/p>\n
They followed a well-trodden path – each day, around 2,000 people make the move to Dhaka to escape the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n
They find themselves in a vast, congested landscape of 36 million people, which is constantly expanding upwards and outwards.<\/p>\n
\nBizly Begum and her family moved to Dhaka, the megacity capital of Bangladesh<\/p>\n
Many migrants hope for jobs in the textile industry or other secure employment.<\/p>\n
But the reality is often quite different, according to Manish Kumar Agrawal, the Country Director for Irish NGO, Concern Worldwide.<\/p>\n
“Many of them have been climate victims\u2026. And they come here in search of a better life and better livelihood,” he said.<\/p>\n
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\nA local woman wade through floodwaters in Feni, Bangladesh<\/p>\n
“However, Dhaka is a highly densely-populated city, so the majority of them end up spending (living) in the slums, which are very, very poor living conditions.<\/p>\n
“There is no public supplies in terms of water or education facilities for the children. The housing is very, very cramped.”<\/p>\n
For Bizly, Khairul and their four-year-old son Yeasin, life has been exceedingly difficult in the capital.<\/p>\n
They are currently sleeping rough, barely surviving on the margins of a city already over-populated and over-stretched.<\/p>\n
Read more: ‘Everything in my home is totally gone’<\/b><\/p>\n The largest slum area in Dhaka is Korail, a densely-packed maze of tin structures and narrow alleys.<\/p>\n According to the UN Migration Agency, 70% of residents in Korail have fled some sort of environmental shock.<\/p>\n And now they face another.<\/p>\n RT\u00c9 News visited Korail the day after a major fire sweeps through the area. No one was injured but thousands have lost their homes. Many were inspecting the charred remains in despair.<\/p>\n Among them is Minu Begum, a mother-of-two, whose one-room home was reduced to ruin.<\/p>\n “When I saw the fire, everything is burning and I ran out with the newborn with me,” she tells us.<\/p>\n “Everything in my home is totally gone – all the furniture, all the stuff. I couldn\u2019t even save one dress for my kid.”<\/p>\n Minu and her family are now receiving emergency support from Concern Worldwide, but it highlights once again the many challenges facing people on the frontline of the climate migration crisis.<\/p>\n And that challenge is only expected to grow.<\/p>\n The government predicts that by 2050, one in every seven Bangladeshi citizens will be displaced by climate change.<\/p>\n For a nation of 170 million people, squeezed into an area only twice the size of Ireland, it raises profound questions about space and resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few countries in the world are more vulnerable to the impact of climate change than Bangladesh in south…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-637668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115733795885069102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nA devastating fire engulfs the Korail slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh<\/p>\n![\"Minu](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0023a375-614.jpg\"\/)
\nMinu Begum’s home was reduced to ruin<\/p>\n