A look at the water, sanitation and hygiene challenges faced by one the world's fastest growing megacities: Dhaka, Bangladesh, where thousands of people die each year from waterborne diseases.
Bangladesh: Teaching Swimming, Saving Lives
Published September 9, 2010
The Pulitzer Center's Jon Sawyer reports from Bangladesh on innovative programs that combine supervised child care and low-cost swim instruction to combat deaths by drowning, which UNICEF calls the biggest cause of mortality in Bangladesh for children between the ages of 1 and 17.
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Jon Sawyer is director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that funds independent reporting with the intent of raising...
