Vice Fashion - Still Hungry

Bangladesh is a small country located just below India that somehow manages to exist as one of the world’s poorest, most densely populated and least developed countries in South-East Asia.

by Jamie-James Medina

March 1, 2006, 12:00am

Photos and styling: Jamie-James Medina

Bangladesh is a small country located just below India that somehow manages to exist as one of the world’s poorest, most densely populated and least developed countries in South-East Asia. As the son of a doctor who specialised in tropical medicine, I spent most of my youth there, surrounded by slums, where kids my age spent up to 14 hours a day sifting through massive rubbish heaps, trying desperately to find sustenance. I went back for a visit in January for the fist time in ten years and was disappointed to see that not much has changed. The fact remains that half of Bangladesh’s 145 million citizens still live in deprivation, with almost half of all children under the age of six showing evidence of chronic malnutrition. The people of Bangladesh are still hungry.

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