Bangladesh 2011

Most of the bathing in the countryside is done in public, either in the rivers and lakes or beside a well with a hand pump.

On our weekend with our guide, we visited a village school. I taught in a village school in Botswana while in the Peace Corps. School

Almost all of the women we met were dressed in beautiful, elegant saris. The women at the school wore modern versions of traditional dress. Those

The children we met along the way were so curious about us, but ever so shy. They occasionally engaged with us, but mostly stood and

We had a few days in Dhaka, Bangladesh, before we started work in Chittagong with the Asian Women’s College. We hired a guide for the

Looking at the map of the Indian subcontinent, it is not geographically obvious how the borders of India and what was then Pakistan (East and

Everywhere we went in the countryside, we drew a crowd, but nowhere like we did when we stopped to tour a school. At first, a few

We arrived in Chittagong last Sunday, and we have been chauffeured around like royalty ever since. Neither our hosts nor we have been eager to