National Immunisation Day part of a special immunisation programme on polio eradication. Polio is primarily a disease of the infant caused by an enterovirus with disease manifestations that include destruction of motor neurons in the spinal cord causing flaccid paralysis. Because of enteric entry of the virus, it was thought that an oral vaccine may [...]
January 14, 2009
Boxing Day at the Eco-Park
Boxing day also had a unique Bangladeshi tinge to it, but was in contrast a calm and relaxing experience for all the volunteers who went. Arranged by Michael and Philip’s host dad, a group of team 79 were quite spontaneously whipped off to Sitakundu to a beautiful national park. The area, protected by the government and [...]
January 14, 2009
Christmas in Chittagong
* MERRY CHRISTMAS *
A very belated MERRY CHRISTMAS from Bangladesh! It was perhaps the most surreal christmas we’ve all ever experienced but all the same great fun!
A few of the team began the day with a Church service – the general belief here is that if you’re white and western then you must be Christian [...]
January 14, 2009
Chittagong
I don’t know whether we should have expected the second biggest city in Bangladesh to differ much from its first, and i still can’t decide if it does. There are similarities obviously – the car horns screaming, the street children tugging, the faces turning, the rickshaw bells jingling, the dust, the pollution and the sewege [...]
