Water flows into Bangladeshi slums (Pulitzer Center) DHAKA, Bangladesh – In Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capitol on track to become one of the world’s biggest cities, hundreds of thousands of people fill in the urban fabric each year. Most end up in the slum communities — crowded shantytowns without water or sanitation facilities. Often these are government lands usurped by “influential people,” mafiosi-like business and political elite who then rent them out to newcomers.
We visited one such community where DSK, a local NGO with funding from water.org (Matt Damon’s organization focused on water and sanitation in India and Bangladesh), provides microloans for facilities like latrines and water pumps.
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