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Community story. Sylhet, Bangladesh,

The kitchen that fed a shelter

Six women, three borrowed stoves and a school courtyard: how one shelter cooked for 400 people a day.

Relief distribution for flood-affected families in Sylhet City, June 2024Press Information Department, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Relief distribution for flood-affected families in Sylhet City, June 2024. File photo from the same region, not of the people in this story.

Our partners supplied rice, lentils and fuel. The women running the kitchen decided the menu and the queue.