The team has had increased engagement with the children cared for at Aparegio Bangladesh and its centres across the city. The work there is considered extremely worthwhile and Team 79 were eager to give the children something to enjoy and remember.
The day included hilarity on the basketball court, interesting penalty shoot-outs, some cheating occurred [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Chittagong’
February 23, 2009
Street Kids Sports Day
February 23, 2009
Slum School Scout Project
A few volunteers offered to help out with a local scout group in the slums behind the station to renovate the area and improve the current, desolate situation. After clearing the area of rubbish, faeces, bricks and sewage the small team set to work. They dug holes for a new bamboo fence and secured the [...]
February 20, 2009
Human Rights Movement Indigenous & Tribal People
Believing the motto “Think globally and Act locally”- a very effective way to deal with different development issues in aspect of globalization, Global Xchange team 79 conducted a Global Citizenship Day (GCD) with the focus of “Violation Of Human Rights in Aspect of Indigenous & Tribal People” . In the day, all the GX volunteers gathered in [...]
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 [...]
January 7, 2009
A VIVID GCD by GX Team 79
Global Citizenship Day (GCD) is a regular session of Global Xchange program where different global development issues are discussed with the joint collaboration of international volunteers. The 2nd Global Xchange program is on going in Bangladesh running in partnership of British Council, Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), YPSA and Nagorik Uddyog.
With this continuation, [...]
December 18, 2008
In Country Orientation – Dhaka
We arrived in Dhaka four days ago and it already a complete blur. Its constantly moving in terms of traffic and incredibly difficult to communicate. The rickshaws are beautifully decorated and need haggling and the UK team are yet to be master such as skill. The team dispersed immediately which really plunged us into the [...]
