Preparing for a rainy day in Kurigram District
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“When our village flooded last year, the waterline in our house was sometimes above our waistlines. Luckily we had made preparations by elevating the bed in our house as high as we could. At one point, me and my children had to stay on the bed for five straight days,” says Mongli Bala, a single mother of three from Jelepara Village, Kurigram Sadar Upazila, Kurigram District.
For the residents of Jelepara, the monsoon season does not mark a long-awaited relief from the scorching heat of summer anymore. Because of the effects of climate change, the village has been subjected to worsening floods for years now, which has made damaged crops, lost livelihoods and months of unusually frugal existence the most common associations with the seasonal rains.