GALLERY: PORTFOLIO: aftersidr

The passing of super cyclonic storm Sidr in 2007 caused an unprecedented swathe of death and destruction across Bangladesh. Sidr's cyclonic storm slammed the highly vulnerable low lying, densely populated coastal areas along the Bay of Bengal with heavy rain, intense winds of up to 200 miles/hr, and a massive storm surge. Sidr, a category 5 cyclone was possibly the strongest cyclone to hit the country ever. The human cost from Sidr numbered in the thousands, and the damage to homes, crops and livelihoods was extensive.

The solidarity amongst local people and within the Red Cross (ICRC), Red Crescent Societies and several N.G.O. Refugee camps was also immense. People worked assiduously in order to identify the corpses massed in the communal ditches and to distribute goods of first necessity and medicines to the survivors, in an attempt to alleviate the suffering and avert a pandemic of disease.