Life in Boat: A boat housing a gypsy family on the Patarhat River in Mehendiganj upazila, Barisal recently. Life in Boat: A woman cooking lunch on the boat. The nomadic manta community lives, travels, and earns their living on rivers, their children deprived of the access to basic rights including education. Though these landless people say they want to hold on to their traditional nomadic past, the grim reality is they actually have nowhere else to go but to live a life of destitution, cut off from the mainstream of society. Unfortunately, the governments social safety nets barely reach them. At least 15 boats were anchored there when the photo was taken. Photo: Arifur Rahman
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 03:55:00 +0000