Photo gallery: Dhaka’s street kids and environmental displacement
By Joanna Kakissis | September 22, 2009 | Bangladesh
Jamal is the kind of boy you notice right away: Smart and soulful, with a quietly magnetic charisma and the budding good looks of a teen idol. He’s 12, fancies meeting new people and looks out for a posse of much-younger friends who, like him, live on the streets of Bangladesh’s teeming capital, Dhaka. His father died when he was a toddler, and he moved to Dhaka with his mother after she could no longer support herself in their flooded village. She remarried in Dhaka but abandoned him when her new husband did not want him. It’s a terrible story, but for environmentally displaced people, terrible stories abound.
Click here to read the full blog about Jamal and the other children in the below photo gallery.
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