Volunteer in Bangladesh

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Raising Awareness of Childhood Blindness Participating in Child Sight Foundation’s (CSF) First International Volunteer Camp on childhood disability in Bangladesh has been one of the most satisfying experiences that I have had. This project concentrated on bringing awareness about childhood blindness. Most of the project’s work was done in a district called Sirajganj. We have also had some events relating to the project in Dhaka city. Bangladesh /F. Yeasmin ~ 2009

"We started our hike to villages by walking along the railroad tracks. When we arrived in the villages we were split into three groups, with one or two foreigners in each group. I was unprepared for the extreme poverty that we saw. The children had large bellies from starvation. Their teeth were a dentist's nightmare. They laughed lots, despite their obvious pain. We came to this village to build latrines, as the villagers had no bathroom facilities and still relieved themselves in their rice fields, causing sickness. We installed twenty latrines in total. Each latrine needed a hole that was 6 feet deep. We spent the majority of our time digging, but when we needed a break we entertained the children through silly slap-stick humour. When the hole was ready, we carried five cement rings and placed them in the hole." Victoria Westcott / Bangladesh - 2004

"I believe that in the short time of the camp, substantial good was accomplished. The infrastructure improvements to the village, though not glamorous, were tangible and immediately usable. And the 53 people with restored vision in one eye will lead fuller and more productive lives as a result of the eye camp. This made the experience a highly rewarding one. It was also a unique way of learning about rural life in this friendly and untouristed country, not to mention about ophthalmology." Matthew Butler / Bangladesh -2001

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