Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms

DHAKA, May 9 — Twelve-year-old Alamin’s house rested on the bank of the Ilsha river in southern Bangladesh until last year, when the surging river eroded it and the family’s farmland away, forcing them to flee to a slum in Keraniganj, close to the capital Dhaka. Now Alamin — whose father...

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