This last week I traveled down to the division of Barisal in Southern Bangladesh to visit some of the sites where we are working. We were hosting a VIP from Washington and got to spend two full days in the field, visiting a lot of different villages across this division. We took an amphibian plane, taking off on land and "landing" on water in Barisal.
This is a view of Dhaka as we were flying out.
I took this picture in a remote village where we are working with the local farmers and villagers to encourage them to consume indigenous and highly nutritious fish to improve their overall nutrition, especially that of women and children. This little boy was very excited about the fish they had caught!
This was in a different village, quite some distance away. These women were being taught about fish culture and how to tend to their ponds.
Another thing we teach the villagers that we work with is about raised beds for their gardens. Because this part of Bangladesh gets so much rain, often crops are washed away, leaving them with limited access to food, given how little money they make. The simple technique of raising beds allows the crops to remain protected and continue growing. This woman was proudly showing off her raised plot and how the plants had survived the recent heavy rains.
This is a picture of the Ganges River, known as the Padma in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is both blessed and cursed by its water. It was a beautiful flight back from Barisal as we came into Dhaka. And a really nice trip all around.
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