Category Archives: Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh

By pertorkelson | Published: March 3, 2008

On the 23rd of last month I, Debashish and Ashu visited Ahsan Manzil (The Pink Palace) down by Sadarghat. Ashu’s mother’s family is related with the person who let build this palace in 1872. We got a tour of the palace by Ashu’s uncle. I had a nice time visiting it. From there we visited [...]

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Dhaka, Bangladesh

By pertorkelson | Published: February 23, 2008

On the 10th of February we had a staff meeting in the office and we discussed our recent picnic in Gazipur. In the meeting one of the teachers, Popy, told that the street boy Shoeib had said to her; “Erik is an angel”. It made me very happy to hear that he had said it.
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Dhaka, Gazipur; Bangladesh

By pertorkelson | Published: February 8, 2008

I have downloaded a SNES emulator and some games for my MacBook, it’s nice to play once in a while and it brings back fun memories from my childhood. I have been playing “Aladdin”, “Tom & Jerry” etc.
One day when I had been to the GPO (General Post Office) and was walking alongside the Baitul [...]

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Dhaka, Bangladesh

By pertorkelson | Published: January 24, 2008

I’m back in Dhaka and I started working again on the 10th of January. I have slowly gone back to the daily routines in Bangladesh after the magical journey together with Alexzandra in Kolkata.
At work the first week after returning to Dhaka: We held a monthly staff meeting. I worked both in the office and [...]

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Dhaka, Bangladesh

By pertorkelson | Published: December 26, 2007

The last day at work (19th Dec) before the Eid and Christmas holidays I worked in the office and in the afternoon, around 3:30 pm, I, Kanta and Nioty went to Kamlapur Railway Station and distributed t-shirts to 30 street children in the School Under the Sky who are regularly attending the class. It was [...]

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Dhaka, Bangladesh

By pertorkelson | Published: December 19, 2007

On December 4th the Shishu Tori office had visitors from the streets, we had eight street children in our office that had come to paint and make handicrafts, which we displayed and sold in a stall at an exhibition in the International School of Dhaka (ISD) on Friday the 7th of Dec. The street children [...]

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Dhaka, Bangladesh

By pertorkelson | Published: December 2, 2007

Last week, on Wednesday afternoon we (I, Forhad, Kanta, Milon and Nioty) were working in Ramna Park interviewing street girls. Before we started interviewing there was quite a crowd (maybe around 35-45 people) standing around us, just staring, not doing anything, I’m used to it by now but I got very annoyed and said loudly; [...]

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