Reports

Sitting in a circle on dry leaf mats, a group of children from Bangladesh’s Chapainawabganj district laugh at the play they are watching about a dog called Bhulu. This play is part of a hygiene lesson, supported…

Press Release No:2012/342/EAP WASHINGTON, March 22, 2012 — The World Bank today approved a US$75 million concessional credit for the Bangladesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (BRWSSP) to increase access to safe water and hygienic sanitation…

(Extract) Japan will provide US $ 628,000 as grant for seven grassroot projects in Bangladesh on human security encompassing healthcare services to mothers, children and physically challenged people and arsenic mitigation. Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima…

When Ying was 16, she almost dropped out of school to toil on the farm with her parents so that her younger brother could go to school and the family would not go into debt. “I had…

GENEVA (28 February 2012) – “The Government of Bangladesh must ensure that any policy concerning open-pit coal mining includes robust safeguards to protect human rights. In the interim, the Phulbari coal mine should not be allowed…

Listen Enormous progress has been made in Bangladesh where poisonous arsenic was found in well water across the country, but more still needs to be done to help the people there. Both the United Nations and the World…

VIEWPOINT FROM A CONVERGENCE DISTRICT HOSPITAL During her first year at the Jamalpur* District Hospital, Doctor Fakhria Alam recalls a young woman in labour coming to the hospital. "She had tried to have the baby with the help…

The story of the Horizontal Learning in Bangladesh began in 2007, when community councils proposed a knowledge sharing approach allowing to learn from each others’ experiences, with the aim to improve access to safe drinking water…

Sumi, 11, remembers what it was like to go to a school that did not have drinking water or latrines. “Being thirsty was so painful,” she said. “Not being able to use the toilet all day…

Jan. 26, 2012 PATHORKHALI, Bangladesh – Shahanara Begum beams as she works the pump lifting water from the village pond into a new sand filter that creates clean drinking water for many people in her village and…