Flood waters inundated nearly all the chars, including Dhushmara, Datiar, Bazra, Kudalkati and Manushmara. In August 2014, floods hit northern Bangladesh in the greater Rangpur regions. To save the flood affected families, many homes were built in clusters in May 2014.
The raised homes amid vast stretches of flat, sandy land protects group of families and their homes from inundation during the inland monsoon flooding so that the communities do not need to migrate. Plinth-raising is one example of helping local community to be more resilient to floods. The CCCP aims to strengthen resilience of local community to cope with current and future climate stresses by improving infrastructure, adapting agricultural practices, and finding innovative income sources. BCCRF is funding the Community Climate Change Project (CCCP) with participation of NGOs. BCCRF recognizes the importance of local empowerment and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in community-based programs and services, often in partnership with government and international development partners. The Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF) is supporting Bangladesh to increase resilience to climate change. Electricity is scarce and kerosene lamps provide light. Transport is mainly via bicycle and foot. Paddy cultivation is prevalent in some chars, particularly in those existing for a longer time. Agriculture has certain cropping pattern because of wide-ranging sandbars, facilitating groundnut and fodder cultivation. They fetch drinking water from hand tube wells and often use unsealed pit latrines. Most residents live around the poverty line and suffer from hunger. Irrespective of types, people on the chars usually face flooding two to three times every year. Typically a new char land requires at least 10 years of continuous presence before it becomes habitable for people. The emergence and erosion determines the intensity of vulnerability in the ‘chars’. Running chars face regular changes and continuous emerge and disappear. Mature chars are the ones that have not faced any major changes for 10-15 years. Dead chars are usually permanent land formations. There are mainly three types of chars: dead, mature, and running. The constant interplay of erosion and accretion creates and sustains the shoals. They live on a shoal, which is an elevated sandbar that keeps their homes dry.Ĭhars or Shoals form through siltation along riverbeds.
While eating, Jahan and her neighbors Sharifa, Amena, and Halima were at ease as flood water rushed around their homes located in the middle of vast Teesta River during August and September 2014. A smiling Mosammet Sukkur Jahan, walks to her thatched home in Datiar Char (shoal) in northern Bangladesh to prepare lunch for her family.
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