One afternoon this past week, 8-year-old Aila affected Sumi Khatun, who was on her way to home from school, saw that five children of her own age had been making a play house for themselves by the side of Dacope-Nalian Road at Saharabad point in Dacope Upazila.
Daughter of a poor fisherman, Anisur Rahman Bhuian of village Gunari, Sumi wants to play too and to sing in the open, but there is no space by the side of their makeshift shelter on the same road at Gunari where Sumi’s parents live.
Like other Aila affected people, they have taken shelter on both sides of the road and they cannot play in the middle of the road as motorcycle, bicycles and rickshaw vans frequently move through the road.
Thousands of children like Sumi in the worst affected Dacope and Koyra Upazilas, have no opportunity to play as they do not have adequate space near their makeshift shelters while all the areas become waterlogged during high tide and the parents do not allow the minor children even to walk on the muddy fields. Full Article on NewAgebd