Another early morning and we headed for Sherpur to the northeast of Dhaka arriving at about noon. Although we have come to expect bumpy, dirt roads out in the country the highways are not too bad other than the frequent speed bumps. Today, however, we travelled on the old side of a highway being widened and reconstructed, for more than an hour. The potholes were huge and the air was dusty! When we finally got there, the venue had been changed as there were exams being written at that school so, the Rotarians had us wait in town for 45 mins as they got sorted at another school. We wandered around a little checking out a man washing his clothes at the lakeside, the wholesale market and a mother cow and her baby resting near the lake.
The distribution went well again in a very poor area where they are very needy. There was head lice in the majority of the children's heads. Many children were shoeless. One fellow had his photo taken and then hopped out of his flip flops, leaving them in place for the next one. Many wore borrowed jewelry and rusty hair clips for this special day.
The people kept converging on us, sometimes getting a little too close, looking for handouts.
We had to stop giving out our trinkets for fear of starting a stampede.
Once again, and as usual, the joy of handing out bedkits to the beautiful Bangladesh children was overwhelming!
We had lunch afterwards at the local Rotary hall before traveling about 3 hours.
Tomorrow is our last distribution and there is so much more to be done in Bangladesh!
Team Bangladesh 2014
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