Bangladesh

One of our very first students at the Garden School was a boy named Anad who was the son of a Bangladesh couple who came to the US to train as medical techs. They returned to a remote part of Bangladesh to work in field hospitals as the only medical personnel for hundreds of miles. They were the nicest people. We enjoyed their son very much. I often wonder what happened to them.

Japanese Assistance for Mother, Childcare Training Institute
3/21/2006

Japan will provide a grant of Tk 6.35 million to a local NGO, Eskander Welfare Foundation, for construction of the Mother and Child Care Training Institute in Pirojpur district, reports UNB.

Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka Matsushiro Horiguchi and foundation chairman MA Salam Talukder signed a grant contract to this effect in the city Monday.The objectives of the project are to provide improved training facilities including well-equipped classrooms and quality health and family planning services especially mother and child health.

About 50 doctors, 500 paramedics, nurses, health visitors and beneficiaries will be trained for safe motherhood and child survival under the programme.In Bangladesh, a total of 119 projects covering 99 NGOs have already received the grant amounting US dollar 7.8 million (about Tk 550 million) under Japan's scheme, which have been significantly contributing to the efforts of the NGOs to promote social development at the grassroots level in Bangladesh.