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63 images Created 27 Oct 2015

BANGLADESH: THE SURFER GIRLS

Since January 2014, American – Bengali couple, Venessa Rude and Rashed Alam, are offering surf and English lessons to poor girls in difficult situations, on the beach of Cox’s Bazar, in the deep south of Bangladesh, near the border with Myanmar, through their Life saving and Surfing Club. Despite the opposition of the traditionally closed and men-centered Bengali community and society, they have managed to create this great space for these girls to learn and develop their surfing skills and passions. In a country where just forty percent of girls pass secondary exams, and approximately five million children ages between five and fifteen are engaged in child labour, the Life saving and Surfing Club provides the girls with education and freedom to realize their potential and maybe, one day, being able to leave Bangladesh in order to look for a better life and be able to provide for their families.
For these girls, surf is not just a sport, but also a way of living and emancipate themselves
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  • Rashed Alam, 27, and the "crew" of the surfer girls checking for good waves on Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh and the "crew" of the surfer girls checking for good waves on Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh
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  • Rashed Alam, inside the garage in the yard of his house, proudly showing his surf boards. Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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  • Rashed Alam, 27, founder of the Lifesaving and Surfing Club and the "crew" of the surfer girls checking for good waves on Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh
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  • Two young men, watching the sea on Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh
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  • A young boy wait for tourists to carry on his horse, on the beach of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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  • The girls are getting ready for surfing at Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh
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  • The girls are getting ready for surfing at Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh
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  • The surfer girls walking on the beach of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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  • The girls are getting ready for surfing at Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh
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  • The girls are getting ready for surfing at Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh
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  • The girls are getting ready for surfing at Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh
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  • Rashed Alam, founder of the Lifesaving and Surfing Club in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, portraited here inside the club, right in front of the beach
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  • A man walk along Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh
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  • The crowded beach of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on a busy and sunny Saturday morning
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  • The crowded beach of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on a busy and sunny Saturday morning
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  • One of the lifeguards of the Life Saving and surfing Club carefully watches the crowded beach of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on a busy and sunny Saturday morning
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  • A young boy selling bananas on the beach of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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  • Two young men getting ready to enter into the water to surf on the beach of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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  • A young boy run happily into the water to surf at Cox's Bazar's beach, Bangladesh
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  • Asha, 10 years old, one of the surfer girls, selling hand-made jewellery that she made at home. Most of the surfer girls of her age, while not surfing, try to sell things on the beach of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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  • The surfer girls while doing their english exercises. Venessa, Rashed's wife, gives them daily english lessons in the afternoons
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  • Two young muslim women walk out from the beach of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. In the background, the typical bengali rickshaws, the most common way of transport here
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  • The surfer girls while doing their english exercises. Venessa, Rashed's wife, gives them daily english lessons in the afternoons
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  • Sumi Akter, 13 years old, one of the surfer girls at her house in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Her father works as a plumber while her mother is a housewife. Among the surfer girls, Sumi is the only one who has the luck to be able to go to school because her father can afford that
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  • Sumi Akter, 13 years old, one of the surfer girls at her house in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Her father works as a plumber while her mother is a housewife. Among the surfer girls, Sumi is the only one who has the luck to be able to go to school because her father can afford that
    BANGLADESH_SURFERGIRLS035.jpg
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