Staff Reporter
Nesuti Lakshmi Rani holds up her hands and apologises for the rivulets of mud that run down her tiny wrists towards her elbows.
“I’m digging soil from the river for the roads in our village. I don’t want to do this job but it’s the only way we can get food,” she says.
For her five-hour shift, Nesuti is paid with three kilogrammes (6.6 pounds) of rice.
When cyclone Sidr hit southern Bangladesh on November 15 in 2007, Nesuti and her husband lost their home and livelihood when the couple’s 13 cows were washed away in the storm.
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