In a climate-changed world, Bangladesh will be one of the first countries underwater.
Bangladeshis already have a lot of experience with rising waters.
The nation is inundated with monsoonal rain and floods every year.
In the face of this rising tide, one organisation has developed a novel solution.
They’re delivering high quality health care to Bangladesh’s poorest people, in [...]

 

 Friendship's Floating Hospital [5:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This whole saga really began back in Nepal, when a spontaneous decision made me an owner of an 2004 Enfield Thunderbird. Bel and I managed to drive it to the border with Bangladesh but they turned us back, saying we didn’t have the correct paperwork. That was a serious adventure in it of itself, and [...]

The Tibetan end of Yunnan is still open to travellers, despite the recent protest and subsequent crackdown in other Tibetan regions of China. Despite the presence of military convoys and scores of soldiers entering the main villages and towns of the region, there was no unrest of protest here.
Why? One wonders how this region passed [...]

 

 Shangri-la stays silent, despite protests from around Tibet [6:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Meet Hobu’s family:

And now, see his new rickshaw:

Several other volunteers and I have talked and talked and talked about it, but today I finally did it. I’ve just spent Tk 10,000 (roughly $140 USD) to buy my friend Hobu a rickshaw, and, if he works hard enough, there will be a dramatic change in his [...]

Dominique Keller — a fellow VSO volunteer and good mate — has recently gone on air about her newest documentary, “Brothel Justice.”
The documentary talks about the lives of a group of women inside a brothel in Patuakhali, a town situated in the Barisal district of Bangladesh. She recently did an interview with the Calgary Eyeopener, [...]

I despise Dhaka. I always have. And that’s why I constantly encourage people to get the hell out of it. I will spare very little when I write about the biggest pimple in Bangladesh’s acned face in my guidebook. And I’m not alone in this opinion.
Recently, Forbes.com pronounced Dhaka the world’s second dirtiest city. But [...]