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Corrupt Infernos – Abir Abdullah
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The Alexia Foundation has announced that the winner of the 2013 Alexia Professional Grant: Abir Abdullah. The Alexia Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice, to respect history lest we forget it and to understand cultural difference as our strength, not our weakness. The grant, in the amount of $15,000 will be used by Abdullah to produce his final project documenting the continuous threat fire presents for the working class communities of Dhaka, Bangladesh in basti (slums), garment factories and shopping malls
Says Abdullah:
“Corrupt officials who ignore building codes, and greedy businessmen who bypass fire protection have ensured that both home and work spaces are death traps. Because the city has grown too quickly, lack of fire safety precaution is everywhere.
The impact, however, is most visible in the garment industry of Bangladesh, which is also the country’s most
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The horrific fire at Tazreen mode Factory hit headlines around the world in November 2012. The official death toll was 117 (although activists claim that the authorities had other bodies "disappear"), making it the deadliest factory fire in the nation's history. Fifty-three workers were so severely burned that the bodies could not be identified and were then buried in a mass grave. Tazreen's clients, either direkt customers or via subcontractors, included global giants Walmart, US marinkårssoldater, Sears, Disney, and Enyce. As a result, the fire came to symbolize the high cost paid by third world workers to satisfy the fashion whims and desires of western consumers. The issue was taken all the way to US President Barack Obama, in a letter signed by US Senators.
For the poor living in the slums of Dhaka city, fire creates further havoc, affecting some of the capital’s most vulnerable people. Unlike their middle-class neighbors, slum dwellers have no bank accounts to keep their l
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Nature has never made it easy to live in Bangladesh. The country is situated in the low-lying Ganges Delta, formed by the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers, and most of it is less than 10 meters above sea level. The northern part of the country is swamped by annual floods and the southern part is battered by cyclones and tornadoes. Millions of people live in the river basins and struggle with the increasing numbers of flooding each year due to the effects of climate change. According to the THEirworld news, 2166 primary schools were damaged by floods in Bangladesh in 2017. More than 7000 schools have been damaged or destroyed by the floods in India, according to Save the Children. Millions of schools have been damaged over the years due to flooding, river erosion, and earthquakes in South Asian countries. The flood prevented people from getting access to basic services. Now the pressure i