"Mr. Rossie
Thanks for your letter, I'm here in Dubai, right now it is not possible for me to visit Dhaka, next month end, schools are going to start, the home, kids, schools etc. I'm a mother of 3 school going kids (thanks to God).
I do work as a part-timer. More over, I get work on week-ends, and right nowwork is very very dull in my side. I hope it gets good by the grace of God.
For me to leave the country and visit anywhere is a big preparation, take permission from my kid's father, and his mother-father also. My passport andmy kids' passports all are with my kids' grandpa.
Talking about my work, I do face painting, balloon twisting, henna designing, games for kids and adults in birthdays.
I don't have internet facilities at home, I check my emails from the cafe every 3 days.
Talking about generosity, pls if i can give some money for the people. I don't have a bank account, if somebody is in Bur Dubai, your volunteer, I can give cash to the person or if you want me buy educational books, clothes, etc. (as you say). I wish the money goes to the needy people and whatever they are in most need of.
You can call me on my mobile, anytime.
Thanking you,
P. "
Showing posts with label Help. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Help. Show all posts
Monday, October 20, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
TO LIVE INDEPEDENTLY
The Dhaka Project's Micro-Credit programme gave its first loan to Shafiqul Islam (on the left) and his wife today. He didn't like to work hard earlier :) but he had some brilliant ideas in his mind.Shafiqul came to The Dhaka Project where he had a meeting with Babu (Manager, Micro-Credit), and suggested his idea of running a carpentry shop. Babu went through the whole plan and after checking its feasibility The Dhaka Project gave him a shop and 5,000 TK in cash at 1% monthly interest to run the shop.
The Dhaka Project will also bear the shop rent for the next three months for Shafiqul so that he can settle down with the newly started business. This family belongs to the group of the families supported by The Dhaka Project.
Let's hope that Shafiqul can make his dream come true.
THE DHAKA PROJECT CHANGES LIVES
Shah Alam is a student of Class-IV at The Dhaka Project. He has two brothers and one sister.Previously his elder brother was studying in a local school but it seemed that his education had a very thin chance to continue because his father is suffering from physical problems like paralysis due to a tumour in one of his legs.
When his father works for 4 days then he will have to rest for the next three days because he can’t bear the pressure for longer, so he couldn’t pay the tuition fees for Shah's elder brother and as a result he had problems in passing the final exams.
His mother took loans from many people to run their house which made their life miserable as time went on.
Shah Alam’s Family
The common problem of house renting is also adding a trauma to their life. Ultimately his mother had to come down to fight for a job; this small kid of class-IV asked The Dhaka Project team if they can provide a job to his mother so they can at least have the basic needs. The team gave her a post as a cleaner at the Community Clinic and she is starting tomorrow. She will have training on hygiene, which will be provided by the The Dhaka Project.It’s not the first time we help families and will continue until all families become independent.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
WE NEED NEW HOSTELS FOR GIRLS
Bilkis, a young girl only 13 years old has been forced to be married by her parents (as we explained in a recent post).
She was told by her parents that they were going to a village to visit their relatives. The poor girl broke in tears as she was telling what she had been through.
Her father simply left her back in the village with her husband, where she has been tortured by her mother in law and her husband's sister.
Monir Hossain, her husband, who is also her cousin, works in a shoe factory.
He is not educated; naturally he does not really appreciate the value of education.
And the girl was sinking in frustration because all her dreams, developed in her mind while she was attending the school at The Dhaka Project, were dying.
The team had to toil a lot to trace her whereabouts and to convince her husband to allow her to go back to school.
She used to be the best student in her class. But the poor girl has gone through an unbearable mental trauma, and this has shattered her confidence.
Now she feels she has lost everything. The teachers are trying their best to comfort and help her to regain the confidence.
We don't want any of our young girls to suffer the same fate.
We opened a girls hostel where the teenage girls will be accommodated and will have their own space to study and grow up with all their potential materialized. But the available accommodation doesn't have room for all the young girls.
There are many applicants in the queue for a place in hostels.
We need help to open new hostels.
She was told by her parents that they were going to a village to visit their relatives. The poor girl broke in tears as she was telling what she had been through.
Her father simply left her back in the village with her husband, where she has been tortured by her mother in law and her husband's sister.
Monir Hossain, her husband, who is also her cousin, works in a shoe factory.He is not educated; naturally he does not really appreciate the value of education.
And the girl was sinking in frustration because all her dreams, developed in her mind while she was attending the school at The Dhaka Project, were dying.
The team had to toil a lot to trace her whereabouts and to convince her husband to allow her to go back to school.She used to be the best student in her class. But the poor girl has gone through an unbearable mental trauma, and this has shattered her confidence.
Now she feels she has lost everything. The teachers are trying their best to comfort and help her to regain the confidence.
We don't want any of our young girls to suffer the same fate.We opened a girls hostel where the teenage girls will be accommodated and will have their own space to study and grow up with all their potential materialized. But the available accommodation doesn't have room for all the young girls.
There are many applicants in the queue for a place in hostels.
We need help to open new hostels.
Monday, June 9, 2008
UNEXPECTED DREAM COME TRUE !
Nurul Islam, who is an Office Assistant of The Dhaka Project, is going to Dubai within 3 weeks.
He will work there for Emirates Airline
as an Office Assistant, earning a handsome salary with free accommodation.
But 2 years ago his life was not so smooth. He lives with his wife Hamida ( who works as a beautician at The Dhaka Project ) in a slum area named Korail, in Dhaka-Bangladesh, and used to sell fish or to work as a carpenter for his survival. And many times they had to pick grains of rice, one by one, at the local market.
Their life was so miserable! Both of them didn't know how to read or how to write.
Maria took them to The Dhaka Project, provided them a house, English classes, trained Hamida as a beautician and Nurul as a skilled car driver and also as an office assistant.
On 04-06-08, Scott Williams from Emirates HR took his interview at The Dhaka Project and confirmed his job in Dubai.
Without you nothing would have been achieved!
Thanks to all who help The Dhaka Project !!!
He will work there for Emirates Airline
as an Office Assistant, earning a handsome salary with free accommodation.But 2 years ago his life was not so smooth. He lives with his wife Hamida ( who works as a beautician at The Dhaka Project ) in a slum area named Korail, in Dhaka-Bangladesh, and used to sell fish or to work as a carpenter for his survival. And many times they had to pick grains of rice, one by one, at the local market.
Their life was so miserable! Both of them didn't know how to read or how to write.
Maria took them to The Dhaka Project, provided them a house, English classes, trained Hamida as a beautician and Nurul as a skilled car driver and also as an office assistant.
On 04-06-08, Scott Williams from Emirates HR took his interview at The Dhaka Project and confirmed his job in Dubai.
Without you nothing would have been achieved!
Thanks to all who help The Dhaka Project !!!
Sunday, June 8, 2008
GALLBLADER SURGERY
The Dhaka Project's role concerning
to families has been called on once again!
Mohammad Ali, father of a girl who is one of our students at EK College, after doing an X-ray, has been told by the doctor that he had a stone in his gallbladder, and advising him to do a surgery to remove it.
A surgery?! Afforded by a poor man recently rescued from the slums of Dhaka? How would it be possible?
So the chance was coming to The Dhaka Project and ask for help, that sent him to a private hospital to do the operation.
The operation took place on 5th June and its cost was 30,000 Taka (435 USD). And it was a successful surgery.
Mohammad is very grateful to The Dhaka Project,... i.e., to those who help the Project with their donations, volunteer work, to the team and staff,... who make this mission possible.
He is very GRATEFUL TO YOU !!!
to families has been called on once again!Mohammad Ali, father of a girl who is one of our students at EK College, after doing an X-ray, has been told by the doctor that he had a stone in his gallbladder, and advising him to do a surgery to remove it.
A surgery?! Afforded by a poor man recently rescued from the slums of Dhaka? How would it be possible?
So the chance was coming to The Dhaka Project and ask for help, that sent him to a private hospital to do the operation.
The operation took place on 5th June and its cost was 30,000 Taka (435 USD). And it was a successful surgery.
Mohammad is very grateful to The Dhaka Project,... i.e., to those who help the Project with their donations, volunteer work, to the team and staff,... who make this mission possible.
He is very GRATEFUL TO YOU !!!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
APPEAL TO CABIN CREW COLLEAGUES
Dear Colleagues,
700 marginalised children were rescued from the streets and slums of Dhaka. They are cared for by The Dhaka Project. Through the generosity of donors like The Emirates Airline Foundation, and Dubai donours the basic day-to-day need for health care, education,
food, clothing, shelter is being met in so many different ways. But we do need more help.
We have overseas volunteer workers like doctors, dentists, nurses, paediatricians etc who come and donate their professional services. These visits do substantively contribute to the emotional and physiological well-being of the children.
This appeal from me to you, dear colleague, is to ask for help to sustain the growing needs of the little children under our care. We need rice, dal, powdered milk, diapers etc...as these items have become very expensive to buy and are used everyday.
If each one of you could donate 1 kilo of rice or dal, or powdered milk, diapers, and bring them to Dhaka on your next trip or through other inflight colleagues, this would make a huge positive impact on the material welfare of the kids. Donated items can be left with
the crew hotel concierge and we shall pick them up.
Please donate generously. On behalf of the children at The Dhaka Project, please accept my grateful thanks.
Maria Conceicao
Founder,The Dhaka Project
700 marginalised children were rescued from the streets and slums of Dhaka. They are cared for by The Dhaka Project. Through the generosity of donors like The Emirates Airline Foundation, and Dubai donours the basic day-to-day need for health care, education,
food, clothing, shelter is being met in so many different ways. But we do need more help.
We have overseas volunteer workers like doctors, dentists, nurses, paediatricians etc who come and donate their professional services. These visits do substantively contribute to the emotional and physiological well-being of the children.
This appeal from me to you, dear colleague, is to ask for help to sustain the growing needs of the little children under our care. We need rice, dal, powdered milk, diapers etc...as these items have become very expensive to buy and are used everyday.
If each one of you could donate 1 kilo of rice or dal, or powdered milk, diapers, and bring them to Dhaka on your next trip or through other inflight colleagues, this would make a huge positive impact on the material welfare of the kids. Donated items can be left with
the crew hotel concierge and we shall pick them up.
Please donate generously. On behalf of the children at The Dhaka Project, please accept my grateful thanks.
Maria Conceicao
Founder,The Dhaka Project
Monday, March 31, 2008
AN INTERNATIONAL PLEA FOR HELP
Dear Volunteer-of-the-World,
This appeal for help comes from Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh.
The Dhaka Project is a humanitarian community service founded by an Emirates Airline cabin assistant, of Portuguese nationality , two and a half years ago. We
now have 700 children from nursery school to Class 6 levels under our care and attention.
We believe that every child deserves the opportunity to build a full and rewarding life. At The Dhaka Project, we maximise human potential. We try to bring hope to the children of Dhaka, Bangladesh, by providing sustainable skills and dignity needed to
better their lives.
We envision lifetime transformation.
Our mission is to create a safe and nurturing environment so that poor, underprivileged children in Dhaka can be developed to become the best that they can be, and rescued from the miserable depths of abject poverty.
Apart from donations that come from the world over, and especially from the financial generosity of the Emirates Airline Foundation, we also need help from professionally qualified individuals with a range of experience and skills that can change the lives of these marginalised kids.
We need people who have experience and skills in the following areas of specialty:
- English Language teaching for elementary learners .
- Computer teaching geared towards children IT education.
- Extra curricular activities eg. drama, music. sports, dance, any kind of performing art.
- Teaching another language besides English like French, Spanish, German etc.
- Help in putting in place administrative work processes & procedures for the schools.
- Working on improving existing school curriculum.
- Counselling programme for families of children under our care as well as child counselling.
- Health, dental, eye care support from doctors, dentists, ophthalmologists, paediatricians
- Teaching children about the World and Global culture.
- Instilling confidence and a sense of security through child psychology and personality development.
- Environmental awareness program to inculcate into the young a love and caring for the environment in which they live in.
However, any other specialty experience and skills not listed above will still be considered in the context of the developmental needs of the children.
For more background information on The Dhaka Project's activities, as well as insights into what our volunteers say, do visit this website :
www.thedhakaproject.org
Volunteers-of-the-World, come and share your experience and your life with the children of The Dhaka Project. They await you with open hearts and excited anticipation.
Maria Conceicao
Founder,The Dhaka Project
Monday, February 25, 2008
LET'S DO IT TOGETHER
The Emirates Arline Foundation School we have been talking about for a while is welcoming 450 children who were in the local schools sponsored by Emirates Foundation. After one year 
of constant chasing and struggling to have those schools to provide a minimum of proper education, discipline and values to the children, we gave up and deciding to build our proper school and at the same time to make them follow top notch education.
The children as we have mentioned previously just started couple of days ago their new education program in the brand new Emirates Arline Foundation School College.
But those 450 kids have families who need our help right now. As per the recent post you can see their extreme poverty they live in.
Since our aim is to break the cycle of poverty, not only of the children but also their families and the entire community. There is no point to teach them about hygiene, grooming, good manners and discipline if when they go back home, they are back to square 1!
We found out that the kids themselves are a great asset in this mission as they are messengers at home with what they learn at achool. Teaching them to eat in a clean canteen is encouraging them to push the family to do the same at home. We provide them tooth brushes and tooth paste and we realise now that the entire family is being following the student new good habits ;-).
So our job and our mission is to encourage this behavior but how do you want it to happen in non human basic conditions as describe previously.
We need your help to provide them THE DECENT MINIMUM meaning 4 walls, one cement floor and a roof! THAT's ALL!
What we want to do it to give them a brick house with cement floor and proper roof. The house is only one room but it's ok as soon as it's strong and safe as it prevents diseases such as scabies .
With 3000 Dirhams (833 $ - 600 Euros - ) you provide for a full family a human and decent house!
That's what we need, That's what they need!
of constant chasing and struggling to have those schools to provide a minimum of proper education, discipline and values to the children, we gave up and deciding to build our proper school and at the same time to make them follow top notch education.The children as we have mentioned previously just started couple of days ago their new education program in the brand new Emirates Arline Foundation School College.
But those 450 kids have families who need our help right now. As per the recent post you can see their extreme poverty they live in.
Since our aim is to break the cycle of poverty, not only of the children but also their families and the entire community. There is no point to teach them about hygiene, grooming, good manners and discipline if when they go back home, they are back to square 1!
We found out that the kids themselves are a great asset in this mission as they are messengers at home with what they learn at achool. Teaching them to eat in a clean canteen is encouraging them to push the family to do the same at home. We provide them tooth brushes and tooth paste and we realise now that the entire family is being following the student new good habits ;-).
So our job and our mission is to encourage this behavior but how do you want it to happen in non human basic conditions as describe previously.
We need your help to provide them THE DECENT MINIMUM meaning 4 walls, one cement floor and a roof! THAT's ALL!
What we want to do it to give them a brick house with cement floor and proper roof. The house is only one room but it's ok as soon as it's strong and safe as it prevents diseases such as scabies .
With 3000 Dirhams (833 $ - 600 Euros - ) you provide for a full family a human and decent house!
- - Brick walls
- - Cement floor
- - Proper roof
- - Basic furniture and accessories as beds, mosquito net, matress, bed sheets, blankets, pillows, electric rechargeable lamp, kitchen shelve, fan, cooking dishes and crockery
That's what we need, That's what they need!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
HELP US GIVING THEM BASIC LIVING CONDITIONS
If we follow the same topic of safety for example to avoid ladies or men to get burnt as Chika, we need to talk about the families living conditions.
I am not even talking about the adults but the full family including our children. It seems that there is more and more cases of scabies in the village but you see where they live and how they live, you are not surprised. One family and especially the baby gets every 2 months scabies even after treatment. OF COURSE! If the hygiene rules are not followed, if the full house is not desinfected and the full family treated, scabies comes back.
Yesterday, we have decided to take action regarding this family with the sick baby. Before starting, we sent the team buying new beds, matress and mosquito nets. Then, 5 of us went there as a commando with gloves, water drums and bleach. We took all the furniture out of the house.... put all the dishes and everything that could be washed in big drums full of water and bleach. All the rest has been burnt! No other choice.
I am not even talking about the adults but the full family including our children. It seems that there is more and more cases of scabies in the village but you see where they live and how they live, you are not surprised. One family and especially the baby gets every 2 months scabies even after treatment. OF COURSE! If the hygiene rules are not followed, if the full house is not desinfected and the full family treated, scabies comes back.
Yesterday, we have decided to take action regarding this family with the sick baby. Before starting, we sent the team buying new beds, matress and mosquito nets. Then, 5 of us went there as a commando with gloves, water drums and bleach. We took all the furniture out of the house.... put all the dishes and everything that could be washed in big drums full of water and bleach. All the rest has been burnt! No other choice.
Just removing the furniture and all the dirt awaked hundreds of huuuuge cockroaches and red ants... Yeurkkk!
WHAT WOULD YOU DO ?
These 2 and a half years have been really hard to find sponsors TO HELP the adults. Most common answer is that they don't need help, they schould help themselves , they are lazy, only children deserve support!
Here is what we found at our door this morning....
What would you do if you were confronted to this situation?
For 3 days this 20 year old lady been turned down by the local hospitals as she could not afford treatment. Her one month and half baby has got scabies and has been declined, deprived of treatment ....
She is 2nd degree burnt from chest to feet because of oil. Only because of her appaling living conditions.....
We spent 3 hours in a private hospital begging for the doctors to react and provide medical care ..
They claimed there was no need to rush into treating her that she was not in pain because she had NO FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN........ We had to threaten to call the police if they wouldnt react ...
How many people in her condition are daily been turned down and they don't know about our existence........
THEY NEED YOU
WE NEED YOUR HELP
Flo & Maria
Here is what we found at our door this morning....What would you do if you were confronted to this situation?
For 3 days this 20 year old lady been turned down by the local hospitals as she could not afford treatment. Her one month and half baby has got scabies and has been declined, deprived of treatment ....
She is 2nd degree burnt from chest to feet because of oil. Only because of her appaling living conditions.....We spent 3 hours in a private hospital begging for the doctors to react and provide medical care ..
They claimed there was no need to rush into treating her that she was not in pain because she had NO FACIAL EXPRESSION OF PAIN........ We had to threaten to call the police if they wouldnt react ...
How many people in her condition are daily been turned down and they don't know about our existence........THEY NEED YOU
WE NEED YOUR HELP
Flo & Maria
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