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Longtime DS collaborator and photojournalist extraordinaire Kadir van Lohuizen of NOOR Images has just released his latest beautiful photo collection, After Us The Deluge. This incredible book captures the uniquely presented images of climate change the world over using Kadir’s insightful eyes as a frontline guide to the horrors of climate change already devastating ever growing portions of our vulnerable planet. DS has had the great honour of working with Kadir in climate devastated parts of Bangladesh, along the eastern coastlines of Panama where the Guna people are already moving to new homes because of climate change, in Kiribati and beyond. After Us The Deluge contains chapters by a series of authors accompanied by Kadir’s award winning pictures from Greenland, the United States, Bangladesh, Panama, the Carteret Islands, Fiji, his home country of the Netherlands and many other parts of the globe that are very much living through the beginnings of the ravages of ever-worsening climate change, something hinted at in the title of this masterpiece. DS invites everyone who cares about climate change and those who wish to learn more get a copy of Kadir’s book and then as our initials say – Do Something – to become part of the solution to climate change and not another unwitting participant in the slow but constant degradation of our planet. Congratulations to Kadir for another stellar effort fighting the good fight!

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Ninth OHOF House ready for occupants!

We are delighted to announce the completion of the ninth house of the joint DS-YPSA One House One Family at a time project (OHOF) in Bangladesh, which serves to provide free, lifelong housing to some of this country's most vulnerable climate displaced families. DS coordinates OHOF, while YPSA manages the entire process on the ground - identifying suitable land sites and purchasing these, working with architects to design the homes, amassing building materials, building the homes with local labour and identifying the beneficiary families who are provided free, lifelong tenancies in the OHOF homes. 100% of DS' time involved in this project is pro bono in nature, and 100% of all funds raised go straight to Bangladesh to provide real, land-based solutions to climate displacement. In 2021 we will shortly commence Phase 3 of OHOF with a target of eleven (11) new homes and a fundraising target of USD 96,000, thus bringing the total number of homes to 20, enough for as many as 120 people. To date we have raised USD 12,000 for Phase 3, so have USD 84,000 to go. If you would like to play a direct role in finding housing solutions for some of the world's…...

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DS and YPSA are delighted to announce the launch of Phase 3 of our One House, One Family at a time project in Bangladesh where we raise funds and build permanent homes for some of this country's most vulnerable climate displaced families. If you have you ever wanted to do something directly about climate change, now you can. During the first two phases of OHOF we built nine (9) high quality, safe houses providing permanent, lifelong housing solutions for more than 50 people who through no fault of their own have been displaced because of the ravages of climate change Once Phase 3 is completed, OHOF will have built 20 homes and provided much needed housing to some 120 Bangladeshi citizens With your help we are planning to build eleven (11) more homes and assist up to 70 more climate displaced people. As is well-known, Bangladesh is one of the countries hardest hit by climate change. Every year tens of thousands of people across the country permanently lose their homes to rising sea levels, violent tropical cyclones, devastating floods and other effects of climate change. Most have nowhere else to go. Solving this problem starts with land. Displacement Solutions has worked on…...

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