Flooding in Bangladesh

Heavy rainfall in August has led to severe flooding across eastern Bangladesh.  

More than 5.8 million people have been affected, with more than 500,000 people forced to flee their homes. 

The floods are some of the worst to hit the area in three decades and people are now sheltering in hospitals, schools and government buildings.  

Homes, roads, rail lines, schools and farmland are underwater or have been washed away – leaving people without shelter, power and livelihoods.  

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We are sending a team to Bangladesh to find out what type of support people need.

We’re speaking with our partners, Uttaran and Rotary, to gather as much information as we can.

Hundreds of thousands of homes are no longer habitable, so any response is likely to focus on supporting people with emergency shelter.

Click here to learn more about our current assessment in Bangladesh.

ShelterBox has supported people in Bangladesh after flooding in 2017 and 2019. In 2007 we responded to Cyclone Sidr.

We also responded to the Rohingya crisis in 2017 with International Organization for Migration (IOM). Around 688,000 Rohingya refugees fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in 2017 to escape violence and persecution.

As extreme weather gets worse, disasters like the flooding are becoming more common in places like Bangladesh. The need for emergency shelter is greater than ever.