Kurigram, June 8 -- Scattered like green islands across the shifting waters of the Brahmaputra, Kurigram's chars are places of both breathtaking beauty and heartbreaking neglect.

These remote sandbars-isolated, unstable and often invisible on development maps-are home to lives shaped by river erosion, poverty, and sheer resilience.

Here, every morning is a challenge. For the families who call these chars home, dawn does not signal a fresh start-it begins another chapter of survival.

For children growing up in these forgotten lands, childhood is not a time for dreams but for duty.

With hunger pressing and families stretched thin, little hands grasp hoes before they hold pencils.

At the break of day, tiny feet rush across muddy fields-...