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BANGLADESH - LAND OF TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL
THE FATE OF MINIORITY GROUPS (KAFIR / INFIDELS) IN BANGLADESH
HEAR THEIR CRY
OPEN LETTER OF APPEAL TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF BANGLADESH
LEARN THE BANGLA LANGUAGE ONLINE
HOW BANGLADESH WAS BORN - OUT OF BLOOD
HOW THE ALLAH CULT IS IMPACTING ON BANGLADESH <> BE SURE TO SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE.
WONDERS OF BANGLADESH
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There's so much information including the LATEST NEWS, particularly when you click on "Photos".
TAKE A GRAND PICTORIAL TOUR OF BEAUTIFUL BANGLADESH
"SHOBUJ SHONA" INCOME GENERATING EVALUATION IN BANGLADESH -
A DETAILED, INFORMATIVE STUDY
(by Rebecca Torres Skillicorn)
PRISM-BANGLADESH AGROSANITATION PROJECT USING LEMNACEAE
(by Paul W. Skillicorn)
TASLIMA NASRIN - HELPING TO LIBERATE CIVILISATION AND ISLAMIC WOMEN FROM KORANIC
OPPRESSION AND SLAVERY
(VIDEO)
LEARN OF BANGLADESH'S WONDERFUL PEOPLE AND CULTURE - ACCESS SOME INTERESTING LINKS
but particularly get to know her hardworking, friendly people who, during our period of six years, working in Bangladesh, won their way to our hearts. We served there for that period, being seconded by
THE LEPROSY MISSION (TLM)-
OPERATING IN BANGLADESH -
OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE -
HOW TO APPLY
H E E D
HEALTH, EDUCATION
and
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
We served HEED BANGLADESH for six years after 25 years in India. Ruth spent most of her time serving in HEED'S Leprosy Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy Dept., while I had my hands full as Director of Health Services (Leprosy / Tuberculosis ) based at HEED's Kamalganj project and reaching into Moulvibazaar, Sylhet and Hobiganj Districts, in the N.E. part of the country covering the needs of 8.5 million people.
If you are interested in Rural Community Development and would like to become involved in a practical way with village folk who really are trying to help themselves against enormous odds, please contact us and we'll put you in touch with a project we would highly recommend for your kind support or you may directly contact:-
GRAUNS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Contact The Director
James Barman
B A N G L A D E S H
Email :- barmanjanet@yahoo.com
HEED's involvement also in a variety of income-generating projects, brought us into a close working relationship with
BANGLADESH RURAL ADVANCE COMMISSION (BRAC)
where HEED's various community development activities, including leprosy, are mentioned. One of the most exciting and challenging community development projects I encountered in Bangladesh , during the six years I lived and worked in there, was exercised through Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) with its nation-wide programmes extending to most of the nation's 68,000 villages. Bangladesh, which is the 9th. most populous nation in the world, is wonderfully served by a very large number of N.G.O.'s (non-government organisations) but BRAC, is one of the most dynamic, reaching out with compassion to millions of women and children, through health clinics, family planning units, rural education centres and participatory community development projects. BRAC also helps local villagers to achieve financial independence and, in this regard, the Grameen Bank, with its innovative microcredit or small loan facilities, needs a special mention.
Grameen Bank has encouraged even illiterate women to avail of credit to purchase a Nokia cellular phone. Not only can these once-defenceless and helpless woman sell eggs, chickens, milk, handcrafts or whatever, but they also can market phone calls at around 4. 5 taka (approx. 10 cents) a minute. With so many Bangladeshis, having relatives in other districts or even overseas, many avail of the services of these phone-equipped women who are able to make a considerable profit, to pay off their loan and establish themselves financially.
Since this unique Grameen phone venture began, in 1976, more than $2 billion have been loaned to well over two million poor and needy women, who, otherwise, would have starved, turned to begging or been forced into prostitution in order to survive. BRAC deserves special praise for its Family Planning effort, pre/post-natal clinics and general midwifery care. BRAC also encourages women to oppose the cruel, Dowry system and also the traditional child-marriage custom. BRAC is heartened by the fact that Bangladesh's birthrate of seven children for every woman in 1975, has fallen to less than half that number by 1995. This is truly remarkable in a male-dominated society, however, in spite of this progress, 200 million women, world-wide, become pregnant annually, many against their own wills and wishes. This is because, in many such patriarchal societies, where women are illiterate or less educated than males, they have no free choices in relation to marriage and child-bearing. For many unfortunate women, marriage in such a male-chauvinistic society is nothing more than legalised rape. Many children of such abused women, often end up being abused themselves, or abandoned. Because they are not wanted, they don't qualify, within the family, for their rightful and necessary share of food, medical care and education.
BRAC, through its distribution of contraceptives, health-care and related teaching, along with the enlightening of local culture, is helping women to become persons instead of slaves. To end on a positive note, Bangladesh Govt. departments, along with N.G.O.'s responsible for the same, can boast of real progress. In 1990, the birthrate in Bangladesh was a massive 4. 9 babies for every woman but, thanks to all concerned, that figure has fallen to 3. 3 . BRAC, Grameen Bank, HEED Bangladesh, GRAUNS and other such caring organisations, deserve our praise and congratulations.
Our son, Paul Skillicorn and his partner, Rebecca Torres (now on faculty of University of Texas), through PRISM-Bangladesh, have been deeply involved in "DUCKWEED AQUACULTURE AND WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT", in association with the Khumudini Trust at Mirzapur, north of Dhaka, in collaboration with The World Bank. Check our REBECCA'S CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE WOMEN OF BANGLADESH
Visit the CYBERSPACIAL "ON-LINE" BOOKSHOP for good books on Bangladesh. At the very bottom of this page you will find a link to our shop, Just click on there, then click on the little red cross and, in the Search box,in the top left-hand corner of the Bookshop page, type the word - Bangladesh - and hit the "GO" button.
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- with many helpful LINKS to many things Bangladeshi
CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR ON-LINE SUPERMALL WITH HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS TO TEMPT YOU -
Buying from us will support charities because all the commission / profits we earn are dedicated to supporting leprosy sufferers, widows, disadvantaged rural women and orphans.
ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN BANGLADESH BY REBECCA TORRES SKILLICORN - for to the People of Bangladesh, specially in the area of agricultural development.
LEPROSY
One of Bangladesh's major public health problems - But it is totally curable and all its disabilities completely preventable - Click here to read about
"THE IMMUNOLOGY OF LEPROSY" (Hansen's Disease)
CLICK HERE TO ENJOY (1) - "EKTARA" (You'll need "REAL" audio) - THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC OF BANGLADESH PRESENTED BY RANA HOSSAIN
also (2) "Aami Bangali" - Resources for Bengali people, (3) - "Bangladesh " - online information, (4) - KeKothae" - Bengali People Directory, - (5) - "Shuveccha" - Bengali musical Greeting Card, (6) - "Bondhon" - Bengali personal site, (7) "RanaInside" - Get your site - Bengali or otherwise - designed by the professionals. ENJOY
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- our online book covering 31 exciting years in India and Bangladesh . Readers say that once you pick up the book, you can't put it down. Check out that claim and - ENJOY.
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