My friend Hannah’s parents are visiting from the States right now, so we all went to the shelter yesterday to teach the kids how to bake an American Classic, Chocolate Chip Cookies! The girls are getting really good at baking these days, and the cookies turned out great! The girls made enough for all the … Continue reading
Here’s another great video from Tania Rashid of Vice News, on the tanneries process in Bangladesh. A larger portion of the worlds leather products are processed in Bangladesh, then sent elsewhere for finishing. It’s another great video showing scenes of Dhaka, and the hard lives that the people here have, and what they do to … Continue reading
Vice Video, Report on Gang Rape in Bangladesh Really good video that explains part of the culture of rape in Bangladesh. I’ve met the reporter a few times here in Dhaka and she’s really great. It’s nice to see someone out in the field telling these women’s story. Sad but true parts of Bangladesh. Bangladeshi … Continue reading
A few days ago I went on a research mission to find out more about the living conditions of the garment workers in Bangladesh. Ready Made Garments (RMG’s) are Bangladesh’s largest export. It’s estimated that over 4 million people work in the garment industry. These workers earn on average around $60-70 USD a month and … Continue reading
Last week I was in Southern Bangladesh again for work, only this time I had to take the boat launch in both directions… during the foggy season so it was a considerably longer trip! We had a free hour one morning, so the team decided to take a walk along the river front, … Continue reading
The weekend before Thanksgiving I went with a friend to distribute breakfast to the young students at Piet Van Street School, a small school in the slums through a program called Thrive. Thrive was started by a group of expat women in Dhaka, with the aim of providing meals to students in the slums, as … Continue reading
A great new post from the New Republic on the crazy traffic conditions here in Dhaka. It’s especially worse right now because of Ramadan. Check out the pictures too,they are not far away from where I live. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118416/what-dhaka-bangladesh-traffic-capital-world-can-teach-us Pictures: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118355/photos-dhakas-traffic-congestion Welcome to the Traffic Capital of the World What I learned from the … Continue reading
National Geographic published a great piece on the ship breaking yards in Chittagong this week. Ship breaking is extremely dangerous work of breaking apart old cargo ships and using them for scrap metal. Bangladesh leads the world in ship breaking because of the low cost of labor, labor standards, and environmental standards. I travel to … Continue reading
Around the corner from my office and apartment, there is an amazing program for street kids that can’t afford to go to school, or have any other means for education. Started by an expat dentist, Dhaka Street School is a program that operates four times a week from 12-2, on the sidewalk in Gulshan. There … Continue reading
Political Clashes Grow in Bangladesh , New York Times Surprisingly the stormy political situation in Bangladesh hasn’t made it to the main stream media the past few weeks. (There are a lot of crisis’s happening in the world now it seems). NYT finally posted this story yesterday, about the March for Democracy that the opposition … Continue reading
Blonde And In Bangladesh 