Asia · Southern Asia
8 projects · 8 organizations
Dead ships are run at full speed onto the beach at Chattogram and cut up where they lie, by men with blowtorches standing in asbestos and oil residue.
A Bangladeshi social enterprise partnered with Cordaid, WFP and the Rohingya community to turn discarded food-aid sachets and plastic into sellable bags, bracelets and wallets inside Cox's Bazar's camps.
The organization that put solar power on nearly two million rural rooftops across Bangladesh.
A fleet of solar-powered boats turns into classrooms, libraries and clinics for children in Bangladesh's flood-prone river districts.
SOLshare wires neighboring solar home systems into smart micro-grids so households can sell their spare sunshine to the family next door over mobile money.
Drinkwell installs water kiosks using patented filtration resins to remove arsenic and other contaminants from drinking water in Bangladesh.
Fishing villages around a north-east Bangladeshi haor agreed to stop fishing 170 hectares of it entirely — and within a few years were catching twenty times more everywhere else.
Dhaka North appointed Asia's first chief heat officer for a city of fifteen million where the people most exposed to heat are the ones living under corrugated metal.