Dhaka, Aug. 22 -- Climate change has disrupted the lives of 400,000 people in Morelganj, a coastal town in Bagerhat district.

The people of this local town have been suffering for years together due to constant natural disasters, river erosion due to changes, excessive rainfall, drought and tidal waves. Hundreds of families have lost their homes and moved elsewhere, becoming destitute.

Hundreds of local men and women from various professions formed a human chain at Khaulia Bazar at 11 am on Wednesday (August 20), with the support of non-governmental development organizations Dorp and Helvetas Bangladesh, demanding separate budgets for water, sanitation and climate sectors in the southwestern part of the country, adequate budgets for the...