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1.1.2023
Kateřina Halászová, the new coordinator of the BanglaKids programme, is a "good fairy" and a mother of two beautiful children. She has lived in the Netherlands, likes challenges, knows how to listen, and loves children who are not good at something. In January, she will replace long-time coordinator Šárka Hejnáková, who will be working with Czech children as a teaching assistant. In this interview we introduce Katka to all our donors.
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27.12.2022
Šárka Hejnáková, long-time coordinator of the BanglaKids programme, is changing her job after 15 years. Many of you knew her from phone or email communication, or from donor meetings. Today's interview is our farewell to Šárka. She'll tell us what it was like, what remains in her, and where she's heading. As a teaching assistant, she will help Roma children.
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12.12.2022
"Bangladesh is not a typical holiday destination..." The untouched corners of Bangladesh, dragon boats, overcrowded Dhaka, the joys and misery of the locals. Martin Vrbický captured all this and much more in 10 minutes of a fascinating documentary from Ganga Expedition, available in this article.
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10.10.2022
ADRA is organizing the adventurous charitable 2022 Ganga Expedition in Bangladesh from 17 to 26 October. Olympic medalist and multiple world champion in canoe slalom, Vavrinec "Vávra" Hradilek, will be paddling a kayak down a 121 km stretch of the Ganges River for the benefit of 121 Bangladeshi children from the Chalantika slum.
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Stories of Joy
Lúcia and Jónatas come from Portugal but they are globetrotters. They have already lived in France, Spain, England, Italy, the Czech Republic, Lebanon and are now heading to the Sao Tome and Principe archipelago. And it was in the Czech Republic that they learned about BanglaKids, started supporting a girl named Hushana, and even before the COVID-19 pandemic, they met her in Bangladesh. Jónatas is an English teacher, Lúcia is a media analyst.
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Tisha is a smiling, energetic, extremely talented 16-year-old girl. She speaks great English and sings beautifully. Originally she wanted to marry a Canadian, but now the favourite is Bangladeshi. Thanks to donors from the BanglaHope organization, she is going to India to study at the SAMS boarding school and wants to become a dentist. Her initially horror story has a happy sequel.
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Monika and Robert are passionate travellers. In four years, they travelled to 31 countries. In March, they went to Bangladesh to meet their adoptive children, the boy Langang and the girl Bristy. According to them, they had never received so much love. In the following interview, you will find out what their first meeting with children was like and what they experienced together.
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"Mummy, are you dancing? Don't you have any work to do?" giggles son Himu, the youngest of three Jamila´s children. He cannot grasp, that his mother is cheerfully hopping in front of an old TV. However, when she was pregnant with him, she did not jump for joy. Her husband left her, her mother passed away, she was left alone without funds, pregnant with two small children. By the day, her whole World collapsed.
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