Sunday, June 22, 2014

More Pictures and Update

As I tried to think about what to write about this week I realized that I have not really discussed the project that I am here to work on with Habitat for Humanity Bangladesh.  My project is to develop an advocacy program for habitat. Advocacy is such a big and often vague term that it can mean many different ideas. For the project we are taking advocacy to mean both collaborating with the communities and the government, if necessary, to work for change or greater awareness. That definition is still very vague but by trying to explain it I hope its a bit easier to see that there can be many facets to the project. Habitat has been in Bangladesh for 15 years and although they have not have a advocacy program, at least in recent years, community based advocacy in the form of education for water, sanitation, and hygiene has been a small part of different projects. For this project my supervisor and I have gone on interviews to different non-profits in Dhaka, the site visit to speak with habitat staff in different communities, and started a questionnaire concerning advocacy with the staff throughout the country. I'm at the point in the project where it is time to take all the information that has been collected and bring it together into the program. This is quite the task because there are so many directions that are possible to go in, but with the help of the staff and best practices from other habitat offices throughout the world its working out. Hopefully in the next 5 or so weeks a sustainable plan can be developed for the program. 

Now that I have gone into my project I wanted to share a couple more pictures that I received from the tour company from my tour last weekend. :-) I'm going on another tour this coming weekend so I will hopefully have lots of pictures to share! Thanks for all the support and keep making memories! 

Traci on a boat! Thank goodness they had those umbrellas because the sun was intense!

In front of the parliament building. 

Traci on a rickshaw!

Traci on a rickshaw!

I don't know what face I'm make here, but this is a tea stand on the side of the street. They are really common and this is me awaiting some red tea with ginger, I promise I'm happy in this picture. :-)

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