The Green Planet Club (GPC) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) will host  a 3 days field trip in Lawachara, Sylhet. Students from different universities will attend sessions on various aspects of environmental sustainability and climate change. ICCCAD will participate through running a few sessions . Istiakh Ahmed (Coordinator, Livelihood Programme) and Meraz Mostafa (Research Officer, Migration Programme) will facilitate these …

Some pictures  taken during the field visit july 2017.  

We were walking deep within a maze of narrow, muddy pathways that separated the simple homes of the Bola slum in Dhaka. The structures around us were created of sheets of tin, held together with bamboo sticks and rope that somehow managed to rise up into two-story buildings. Open sewage drains ran between the houses, along which women crouched to …