the Overseas workers here are such beautiful people. They care about only one thing - reaching these people with some kind of hope. We've seen awesome development programs
Education for the poor, hostels,
Speaking of which... we took a ferry from Old Dhaka to Chandpour (apolgies for spelling). This experience alone could take a massive post to explain suffice to say it was an interesting experience
From Chandpour we took rickshaws out to villages to meet with locals and ask them about their life in the villages. We have a project to produce a presentation asking for support from new zeland for the development programs going on for one of the overseas workers here
IT was amazing to see how rural bangladesh lives and that they were so happy to explain their lives to us. Opinions were unanimous that education is the most important development needed for these kids
Few girls go to school and those who do find that high school is only marginally more challenging than high school and often leave
After spending the morning with them we went on to a 2nd village and more questions and learning. A stuning meal was put on for us and we met a feisty muslim teenage girl in a village who declared she was going to be a great doctor in strong English. She was really obstreperous and we all really liked her.
The following day we visited Brahmanbaria - a hostel which hosts some of the children from the villages we visited. It's giving kids a quality education they would not get and there is also an excellent maternity hostel attached which caters to people of all faiths and social standings. A rare thing here.
I must admit I felt very homesick at the sight of babies in incubators
The hostel has 50 boys and we distributed gifts we had brought with us from NZ - including the 2 cricket bats I've been lugging all this time. Man those kids had some crazy cricket skills. They were so talented
The boys were such amazing young men. So full of hope and such a contrast to some of what we had seen in the villages
You have to believe in the value of child sponsorship. It is awesome
Signing off for now
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