As Bangladesh’s Population Grows, Slum Dwellers Struggle For Clean Water Access Mar 22, 2011 8:01 PM EDT ...

Workers for a local aid group reflect on poverty, health and a recent forced eviction in the slums of Bangladesh. Skip to main content. WBUR. 90.0 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station.

Urban slums in Dhaka continue to reflect the stark reality of food insecurity and malnutrition faced by the city’s ...

Dec. 13, 2010— -- In the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, even the simple act of giving your child a glass of water requires an act of faith. Parvin, a mother of four, knows this all too well.

In Bangladesh’s slums, residents often lack reliable access to safe drinking water. By Sakib Imtiaz. December 30, 2016. A woman drinks from a safe water supply system at Tetultola Slum, Tongi ...

With extreme heat episodes becoming more frequent, a team of women is teaching people living in a Barishal slum how to cope ...

As part of its AdSEARCH dissemination series, icddr,b held a scientific seminar on Monday at the Sasakawa Auditorium in Mohakhali, where it shared results from the Nutri-CAP study. According to the ...

More than 10,000 people have been left homeless after a massive fire engulfed a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, destroying thousands of shanties, according to Bangladeshi officials.

07/08/2025 July 8, 2025. With extreme heat episodes becoming more frequent, a team of women is teaching people living in a Barishal slum how to cope with heat-related illnesses.

GlobalPost Looks at Dhaka, Bangladesh, Which the U.N. Predicts Will Be Home to 20 Million People in 2025. ... Cities -- even slum cities -- use energy more efficiently than villages do, ...

COLONIE -- Ali Horton, a doctoral student in geography at Rutgers University, was researching the Internet for a summer internship a few months back, when she stumbled upon two opportunities to ...

About 3,000 people in Bangladesh were left homeless after a massive fire consumed several hundred shanties in a slum on the northern outskirts of the capital city of Dhaka, government officials ...