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Connecting hearts - snippets from the monitoring journey
I bent down to the beggar lying on the street and put a few Taka in her hand. In an attempt to please her, I stroked her black hair and emaciated face. Her eyes lit up, she smiled and stroked me back. There was a connection. A connection of hearts. And so this year's monitoring trip was like that.
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Bangladesh children return to school after 18 months
Finally, it is happening! After 544 days of waiting (18 months), schools in Bangladesh got reopened for young and old schoolchildren on the 12th September 2021. Children are coming back to school gradually under precisely given conditions. We wish them smooth return and we thank everyone who supported them during the school closure.
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BanglaKids 2020: Love in action
Love and solidarity are the unique values of life. During crises, they manifest themselves in decisions that give meaning to our lives. In the year of "covid-19", you helped Bangladeshi children and their families during the famine, supported several investment projects and experienced unique meetings. "Love in action," we called a retrospective look at 2020.
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I danced with joy that we had something to eat again
The covid-19 pandemic mixes the fates of people around the world, people question the future, a UN report speaks of impending famines. In Bangladesh, we help children from the poorest families. You can read about how much humanitarian aid is needed in a few short testimonies of children who know hunger from their own experience.
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What Grandma says is true!
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: a girl her mother wanted to bury alive
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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All children in the world should have a happy childhood
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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Brave Mother Jamila: The (not) Collapsed World
"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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