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  • Homeless village woman from Bangladesh make bamboo lath for a duck pond at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  They had been had left destitute and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and a  brutal 1971 war of independence
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  • Cattle await an uncertain fate at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A diverse crowd of people and animals gathers at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Civil war refugee children wait for milk from an NGO at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • Aid worker Meredith Wiltsie discusses a self-help project at Mirpur Destitute Camp, a living space for Bengali people displaced by a typhoon and brutal war of independence.
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  • A young Bengali woman entertains her baby son with a sparrow that she caught as a pet at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh. 1979
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  • A day-laborer rests between carrying baskets of mud from a canal that he is digging to mitigate monsoon flooding with a crew of other villagers of Manikganj, Bangladesh. 1977
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  • A girl hugs her baby sister at Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh in March 1977.  The clothes they are wearing were donated by an American charity but distrubuted by the camp director who sold them for a profit he pocketed.  The infant’s head is shaved to remove lice.
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  • Residents of Mirpur Destitute camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, carry mud from a pond they are digging as a place to raise fish and establish a communal protein source.  This project was funded by Food For the Hungry in 1977.  Woman on left is Amina Khatum.
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  • A Bengali woman living in a beggar’s rehabilitation camp after being widowed and left homeless by the 1971 War of Independence in Bangladesh  bathes her infant grandson near Dhaka.  1977
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  • A mother and daughter gossip as they break bricks into gravel for road construction near their home in Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka Bangladesh.  For a long day of work the woman are paid about a pound of flour, barely enough to support their children.
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  • This village constable in Manikganj, Bangladesh, holds an envied position, earning a guaranteed monthly salary of $12.00. 1977
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  • Villagers dig a canal by hand.  This is an internationally sponsored monsoon flood control project and workers are paid in grain by the amount of earth they move.  For a day’s work, these people will barely receive enough for their families to eat, but for many this is more than to be found anywhere else.  Manikganj, Bangladesh, 1977
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  • Noorbanu, a Bengali woman left widowed and homeless by the 1971 War of Independence in Bangladesh, is pictured here living in Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka. Before the war whe was a middle class woman who enjoyed the comforts of servants and a hunger-free life.
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  • Children of Mirpur Destitute Camp, lined up for their daily cupful of milk and stack of survival crackers- their high point in an otherwise hungry day. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977
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  • Bengali men ferrying loads of mud in a “food for work” project to dig a canal for monsoon flood drainage.  Even for moving the vast volumes of earth required, human labor in Bangladesh is much cheaper than mechanical power.  For a day’s work these men will earn just enough grain to feed their families, and they fight for any open position. Bangladesh, 1977
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  • Children living in a destitute rehabilitation camp in Bangladesh, 1977.  Their clothes were given by an American relief organization, and they depend upon a daily ration of food for basic survival.
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  • A village merchant and his wife stand in Manikganj, Bangladesh, 1977. BDL-9-03
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  • Men wait for a train in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977,
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  • Human-powered transport vies with trucks and buses  in the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • Fishermen wait by their nets between rice paddies near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • In Bangladesh's brutal 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of women were widowed, left homeless and destitute including this pair of once-middle class woman who six years later still lived at Mirupur Destitute Camp near Dhaka.  1977
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  • Human-powered transport is everywhere in the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • A sailboat carries cargo up a river near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A sailboat carries cargo up a river near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A youngster vends his nuts and snacks along a road  in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A street vendor hawks his fruits and lentils at his sidewalk display in Dhaka Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • Laborers dig a flood control canal near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Mondsoon rains drench a "basti" slum near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Youngsters line up for a food distribution at Mirpur Destitute Camp near , set up at an abndoned soap factory after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homless.  1977 image.
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  • in 1977 hundreds of families lived at Mirpur Destitute Camp, a bombed-out soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh, left homeless , destitute and often widowed  by  back-to -back cyclone and  brutal 1971 war of independence.
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  • Laborers wrestle with a pipe as they help dig a fish pond to help feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
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  • Gordon Wiltsie helps to clean up a fish pond at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homless.  1977 image.
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  • Older women dig mud as they help dig a fish pond to help feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
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  • A woman and her children flee oncoming plow oxen in a village near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • A man pushes a cart loaded with bamboo up a road in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Cattle await an uncertain fate at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • House boys at Hotel Eram watch a monsoon thunderhead tower over Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A crowd watches the 1977 Independence Day Parade  at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier 1971 freedom from Pakistan. 1977 photo
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  • Boy Scouts make a human pyramid  at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier 1971 independence from Pakistan. 1977 photo
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  • Amina Khatum, once a middle class woman with servants, was widowed and cast onto the street by the country's brutal War of Independence in 1971. Although still living in a refugee camp six years later, family and friends still gave her reasons to smile.
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  • Homeless and malnourished village children from Bangladesh find a moment to smile at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh. in 1977.  Their mother had been left widowed, violated and destitute after both a cyclone and subsequent war of indepence in 1971.
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  • Homeless village women from Bangladesh, left widowed, destitute or raped after a cyclone and brutal war of independence in 1971,  find shelter at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka , 1977 Image.
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  • An aid worker leads a family planning discussion at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh,  after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homeless.  1977 image.
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  • An aid worker leads a family planning discussion at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh,  after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homeless.  1977 image.
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