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It’s exciting to hear that the Mummy Blogging community is getting involved in Bangladesh. Three mummy bloggers: Josie at Sleep is for the Weak; Eva at Nixdminx and Sian at Mummy-tips are travelling to Bangladesh at the end of August with Save the Children. Their role is to meet mothers, share their stories and raise awareness of the terrible conditions [...] I would like to share photos and thanks from ARBAN for the clothes M passed to them for the people of Jheelpur slum on his last visit in May. Thank you to everyone who donated clothes; people were extremely generous, handing me huge bags of beautiful clothes. I hope you will think from these photos that they are being put [...] This the last in my series of posts about our trip to Bangladesh. My visit to Jheelpur slum gave me much to think about, a new perspective on how some people live. After a couple of days in Dhaka I became very aware of a desperately poor underclass. There is no welfare state so beggars tap at [...] For those interested in seeing more of Bangladesh, Simon Reeve travelled through there on his journey around the Tropic of Cancer. The episode was shown tonight on BBC 2 but is available on iplayer. For me, having not left Dhaka when I visited, it was great to see the vast rivers and people fishing them using [...] You can’t understand Bangladesh without appreciating its rivers, for Bangladesh is the delta where the vast Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers meet the sea. The country is therefore a network of vast rivers and tributaries with a large proportion of it underwater, more during the monsoon floods. As over 165 million people live in Bangladesh (a population density [...] Yesterday I thought a lot about what being a mother means. For a mother I met in Bangladesh, being a mother means a desperate struggle to keep a child alive and healthy. During the Mother’s Day service, M, one of the Guides, read a prayer for mothers… “for those who struggle to balance the tasks of [...] The project flat M stays in has two staff to look after everyone; Babul and Bibar, a couple who I thought were in their fifties – M told me they are not much older than us, in their 30’s; the harsh life of Bangladesh takes a physical toll. They were very kind to us, concerned [...] I am very flattered to have been asked a few times when a report on the Bangladesh trip will appear on this blog – it’s gratifying that people are reading and interested. We experienced so much in our ten days in Dhaka that it’s hard to know where to start, so I’ve decided to break the [...] I like to read books set in a place I am visiting, so while in Bangladesh I read A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam. This is the story of Rehana, a widow, and her fight to keep her children, with her and then alive. It is set in 1971, the year when Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, [...] There have been no posts for a couple of weeks because we have been away: visiting husband M in Dhaka, Bangladesh where he is working, then staying with friends in Dubai on the way back through. Dhaka is not a normal family half-term destination and I think some of the playground mums considered me mad to [...] |
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