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hundred and seventy toilets for a population of 22,000
and the numbers increase daily. The rituals of life,
death, triumph, hope and misery of each family, packed
into neat little boxes that measure eight-feet by eight
feet.
this
is not just story of poverty and despair. This is the
story of a community of over 2.5 lakh people who have
lived like animals for the last 33 years and will, in
all probability, be force to live on and die as animals
in congested ghettoes at makeshift camps and shanties
all over Bangladesh.
poverty
is
not all that holds them back. Everyday, they are
willfully denied an education, opportunities, a future,
and an identity. This is the story of the Biharis of
Geneva camp in Mohammadpur, Dhaka.
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