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Winter Magazine 2023
Parul’s family is healthy and safe
Photo credit to Water.org.
At the intersection of the water crisis and the sanitation crisis are often stories of severe illness. The consequences of
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living in poverty, like Parul’s.
Prior to moving back to her hometown outside of Gazipur in Dhaka, Parul and her husband earned a living in Rajabari. Parul
worked at a school and her husband had a shoe repair shop. Parul shared that, in their home, they had both running water
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and a toilet. When the couple lost their shoe repair business, they elected to move home, where Parul now cares for the
couple’s children and her parents.
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