[ENG SUB] From the Sundarbans: Community-Led Climate & Disaster Action

What does it look like when communities lead their own climate resilience, and no one gets left behind? This video shares the 2025 progress of CDD (Centre for Disability in Development) supported by ASB South and South-East Asia working alongside communities in Southkhali and Rayenda, Bangladesh. These are places on the frontline of climate change: floods, extreme heat, and saltwater pushing into clean water and food supplies. In 2025, communities didn't just cope, they led. ✅ More than 5,200 people with disabilities were mapped by 30 local volunteers, so no one would be invisible in disaster plans. ✅ Local government officials learned about disability inclusion in disaster response. ✅ 120 Civil Protection volunteers trained in disability-inclusive search, rescue, and evacuation. ✅ 150 households now have clean water tools called WADI and eco-friendly Bondhu Chula cooking stoves that is less smoke, lower costs, better health. ✅ Women-led savings groups kept going even when the project paused for funding, because communities chose to keep going. This is community-led climate action. Not a top-down program. Not charity. People building their own safety systems, making their voices heard in local disaster planning, and adapting to a changing climate on their own terms. Salma Begum, a women's group leader in Nobezanbari village, said it simply: when the project stopped, she kept the savings group running and kept her community connected. Climate change does not affect everyone equally. People with disabilities, women, and communities on the climate frontline often carry the biggest risks with the least support. This program works to change that by building systems where everyone has a place. #DisabilityInclusion #ClimateJustice #DisasterRiskReduction #InclusiveDevelopment #CommunityLed #Bangladesh #ClimateResilience #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #IDRRCA