‘Floating Schools’ Bring Classrooms to Stranded Students
International Herald Tribune July 1, 2013 NASIAR KANDI, Bangladesh — On a hot morning, about 20 fourth-graders sat in two rows of desks, their textbooks open to a Bengali poem […]
Category Archives: Bangladesh
Defying the odds: Bangladesh makes strides in child health
Counter to the common perception of Bangladesh as hopelessly impoverished, the country has dramatically reduced overall child mortality in recent decades. Global Post June 25, 2013 DHAKA, Bangladesh — When […]
Precarious Lives, Rising Threats
New York Times Weekly May 25, 2013 Khulna, Bangladesh On a recent hot spring morning, Israfil Gazi went alone into the Sunderbans, the mangrove forests in southwest Bangladesh, in search […]
Mat red: Safer childbirth in Bangladesh
The Economist May 18th 2013 | Dhaka Medical technology need not be sophisticated to be effective EVEN in rich countries childbirth is not a tidy affair. On an earthen floor […]
The icddr,b—saving lives in Bangladesh and beyond
The Lancet April 20, 2013 On a hot spring afternoon in Dhaka, Bangladesh, an autorickshaw buzzes down the driveway to the hospital at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, […]
Conservation Pays Off for Bangladeshi Factories
International Herald Tribune March 22, 2012 DHAKA, Bangladesh — At the factories of DBL Group, one of the largest Bangladeshi textile and garment makers, tons of fluffy imported cotton are […]
Healthcare, powered commerce
Financial Times December 12, 2007 In the village of Dorogram, two hours’ drive from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, Asia Begum sits on a chair in front of huts made of […]
Bangladesh weathers climate storms
Financial Times December 14, 2007 Dhaka –For generations Mohammed Alam Khokshabari and his forebears lived in a village near the mighty Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Each year this farmer from Sirajgonj […]
Bangladesh storm warning system pays off
Financial Times 28 November 2007 As Cyclone Sidr swept across the Bay of Bengal towards the coast of Bangladesh, 38-year-old shopowner Boni Amin Talukder paced through the remote village of […]
