In pictures

GSBot · May 26, 2010, 3:58am

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921137_cycloneaila1.jpgIt is a year since Cyclone Aila battered Bangladesh.Some 200,000 people in the districts of Satkhira and Khulna remain homeless and drinking water is still scarce.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921138_cycloneaila2.jpgIn Shamnagar in Satkhira, a woman cleans cooking utensils in a contaminated river.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921139_cycloneaila3.jpgThere has been no rain in the past eight months. The influx of sea water has destroyed this year’s crops and farmers have been forced to migrate to cities.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921141_cycloneaila4.jpgKishori, here with her two-month-old daughter, does not know how she is going to feed her children.Last year her farmer husband took out a loan but the crop failed and he is unable to make his repayments.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921142_cycloneaila5.jpgWhen Cyclone Aila hit, nine-year-old Jesmin was living with her grandmother and fell seriously ill with diarrhoea.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921143_cycloneaila6.jpgInternational charity WaterAid has been working in Satkhira to restore fresh water sources.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921145_cycloneaila7.jpgSonia, who lost her two-month-old daughter in the cyclone, is now able to collect clean water two to three times a day.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921146_cycloneaila8.jpgMokshed Ali Molla, 70, drinks water from a newly built tubewell. The elderly are often the most vulnerable at times of natural disasters; Mokshed lost his home when the cyclone hit.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921147_cycloneaila9.jpgWorkers built a toilet in Gabura, the worst-affected area.Improving sanitation not only improves health, but also people’s dignity and livelihoods.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921148_cycloneaila10.jpgEvery day Sabitri fetches water from her nearest pond sand filter.“This water saved our life after cyclone Aila,” she says.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47921000/jpg/_47921149_cycloneaila11.jpgSondha collects clean water from a waterpoint. Yet many others like her remain without access to clean water and sanitation one year on from Cyclone Aila. All photographs by Munem Wasif/Agence Vu for WaterAid.

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