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Photographer: Fahim Ahamed Riyad
Title: Volunteers of Al markazul Islami is getting into ambulance immediately after they received a call to collect dead body of a Covid-19 victim. Covid-19 has had an unprecedented effect on people all around the world and Bangladesh is no exception. In Bangladesh testing positive for the corona virus carries a great stigma and many people even refuse to disclose the identity of family members who test positive. Family members and relatives of those who pass away from Covid-19 do not even attend the funerals for the fear of being infected. Al markazul islami is a volunteer team who has stepped forward in this situation and conducting funerals and burials of Covid-19 victims with dignity and love. Volunteers collect bodies from home of victims also from hospitals and perform the final rites of the dead including bathing of bodies, dressing them in shrouds, and offering funeral prayers all free of cost. To undertake this noble cause this team of volunteers have been keeping themselves away from their family for months and risking their lives to provide burials for the people with honour.Open Call: The Guardian Project
It Ends With Love: In Bangladesh testing positive for the corona virus carries a great stigma. Many family members and relatives of those who pass away from Covid-19 do not even attend the funerals for the fear of being infected. Al markazul islami is a volunteer team who has stepped forward in this situation and conducting funerals and burials of Covid-19 victims with dignity and love. To undertake this noble cause this team of volunteers have been keeping themselves away from their family for months and risking their lives to provide burials for people with honor.
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