Becky Webb
Becky Webb is a media and public relations officer at the British Red Cross. She has a communications degree from the University of Leeds. Before joining the British Red Cross in early 2005, she spent five years working in the media team at The Institute of Cancer Research.
Water diaries tell of life in Cambodia
Author: Becky Webb
Even now, during the dry season, water seems to penetrate all aspects of Cambodian culture. Thousands of Cambodians earn their living by rice farming, while many more live on floating villages - whole communities set adrift along the river.
Life for people here is ruled by water - too little rain and the rice production will fail, too much rain and the fishing industry will suffer as the rivers and lakes swell, making catching fish all the more difficult.
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Author: Becky Webb
Even now, during the dry season, water seems to penetrate all aspects of Cambodian culture. Thousands of Cambodians earn their living by rice farming, while many more live on floating villages - whole communities set adrift along the river.
Life for people here is ruled by water - too little rain and the rice production will fail, too much rain and the fishing industry will suffer as the rivers and lakes swell, making catching fish all the more difficult.
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Uganda's displaced suffer a double blow after the floods
Author: Becky Webb
In the crowded, muddy camps in Amuria District the sun beats down, a stark contrast to only a few weeks ago when the rains came and didn't stop. But the fine weather is deceptive. While the sun shines overhead, underfoot the ground in the camp is sodden - waterlogged by the rains which continue to fall in the mountainous north of the country before making their way here, to lower lying land.
Twenty-year-old Mary lives in Angedakiteng camp with her baby daughter, Otim Joffery, who is 16 months old. "Although it is dry now the ground is always wet in my home," she says. "I cannot put my baby down anywhere and have to carry her all the time - it is so much worse than before."
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Author: Becky Webb
In the crowded, muddy camps in Amuria District the sun beats down, a stark contrast to only a few weeks ago when the rains came and didn't stop. But the fine weather is deceptive. While the sun shines overhead, underfoot the ground in the camp is sodden - waterlogged by the rains which continue to fall in the mountainous north of the country before making their way here, to lower lying land.
Twenty-year-old Mary lives in Angedakiteng camp with her baby daughter, Otim Joffery, who is 16 months old. "Although it is dry now the ground is always wet in my home," she says. "I cannot put my baby down anywhere and have to carry her all the time - it is so much worse than before."
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Floods threaten health of children at play
Author: Becky Webb
In northern Bangladesh, a mother sits up through the night, too anxious to sleep for fear of what might happen to her small son. Thirty five-year-old Kamrunn Nahar, a mother of two, lives in Bashalia village, which was completely under water for 15 days following recent floods.
"I am afraid to go to sleep in case I wake up and find the children have gone playing in the water, fallen in and died," she says.
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Author: Becky Webb
In northern Bangladesh, a mother sits up through the night, too anxious to sleep for fear of what might happen to her small son. Thirty five-year-old Kamrunn Nahar, a mother of two, lives in Bashalia village, which was completely under water for 15 days following recent floods.
"I am afraid to go to sleep in case I wake up and find the children have gone playing in the water, fallen in and died," she says.
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