I did some color manipulation on this one. Most of people don’t like it like that and prefer the original color picture. However I keep liking this different touch in our Bangladesh work.

We spend some wonderful days in the very dynamic Baliadanga Government Primary School of Jessore, South West Bangladesh. Thanks to our partner the Unicef, we have been introduced to this model school. The kids work has been amazing and very creative. You can see some of them at the following link.
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Bangladesh has one of the most vulnerable economies, characterized by extremely high population density, low resource base, and high incidence of natural disasters. These have adverse implications for long-term savings, investment, and growth. Such defining features impart certain uniqueness to the formulation of the poverty reduction strategy.

However, Bangladesh has done remarkably well in its drive to meet the 8 Millennium Goals, and in fact is one of the world's leaders in terms of change, universal education, the goal of access to water points, and the Millennium Development Goals of infant mortality, child mortality under the age of five.
Bangladesh has done especially well in reducing extreme poverty, the first and primary MDG (see [link]), as the percentage of population living on less than one dollar a day has reduced from one-third to about 40 per cent over the last decade. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation, primary school enrolments and primary health care have also seen improvements

How far is Bangladesh from achieving the third Millennium Development Goal ([link]) on gender equality and women's empowerment? Female enrolment in primary school has increased steadily since 1992. However, a large disparity continues to exist both at the tertiary level of education and in terms of male and female literacy rates. In 2002, for example, male literacy rates were 71 percent among 20-24 year olds, compared to 55 percent for females.
In the school we worked, most of the teachers were dynamic women. Creating awareness and sensitiveness is also to the success. I hope Bangladesh can be an excellent example to other countries as these signs of improvement indicate that development is possible. Bangladesh which was once termed ‘the test case of development’ may indeed represent a learning site for keeping the hopes alive for other equally less fortunate post-colonial societies with adverse initial conditions. This would be especially important in the context of overcoming the persistent economic pessimism and hopelessness—‘Afro-pessimism’ is a case in point--that is often cited in relation to the most disadvantaged parts of the developing world.

Because, let’s not forget that by the end of the day, more than 800 million people go to bed without food, and 30,000 children die from poverty, malnutrition and diseases. They are devoid of basic social and economic rights -- the rights to food, shelter, water, health and education. It is time to voice our concerns about these global challenges. Our generation is the very first in history that had the possibility and the ability to feed every hungry person on earth. We had the technology, we had the food -- we just didn't have the will. And that's where the Millennium Goals come in…

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