Girls’ education has improved the lives of women,who manage community affairs across the country but still face high rates of domestic violenceRani Mondal searches the floor of the riverbed with her fingers, craning her neck above the water. The river is home to a farm of clawing crabs. “It hurts a lot when you are bitten but you apply salt and Savlon and disappear to the doctor’s if it gets septic, or ” Mondal said. An award-winning crab farmer living on the edge of the Bay of Bengal,she used to be extremely destitute. Her village has been battered repeatedly by cyclones, making the ground too salty for large-scale agriculture. Related: Sheikh Hasina: ‘I want to produce Bangladesh poverty-free’ | Simon Tisdall and Anna Ridout Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com