Can Small Be Beautiful?
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چکیده
Etched into the memory of Asraf Ali, was the day in 1987 when the banks of the mighty river Brahmaputra overflowed and washed away the family home. Only 13 years old at the time, he lost both his parents, and their small piece of land to severe flooding in the municipality of Gaibandha, in Bangladesh. He remained homeless until he moved to the centre of Gaibandha to seek work as a pushcart driver. Asraf eventually married. With his meagre savings, he managed to buy a small piece of land by the river Ghagot. Land was scarce, and his low income gave him few options to buy land to build his home. The land he could buy was flood prone, and each year, the river overflowed and inundated his small home. One day, opportunity knocked on his door. He heard of a pilot project initiated by the Bangladesh Urban Disaster Mitigation Program (BUDMP). The aim of this project was to build on existing indigenous techniques, and use the collective social organisation to develop a community-based flood mitigation strategy. Asraf became an active participant in a homestead raising activity that ensured his home would be safe and dry during the flood season. River soil would be supplied if he would be prepared to contribute his labour to raise the level of his home above the highest average flood level and plant trees to secure the mud. Today his homestead is free of inundation and his family safe.
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