A man preparing food for sale at a train station in the outskirts of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. About 48 million people in Bangladesh live below the poverty line. Photo: AFP
By ANNA RIDOUT and SIMON TISDALL
“I saw dolphins on my way to school this morning,” says 10-year-old Runa before her lesson on Bangladesh’s liberation war. She gets a lift to school in a small wooden fishing boat from her village on a slither of land in Brahmanbaria, 100km east of Dhaka, which flooding turns into an island for six months of the year.
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