Hello Again!

          It has been a couple of weeks since my last post and I'm not really sure that I have a good reason for why. I have been continuing to work at the office and the project continues to progress. Over the past two weeks I have been working on developing documents that habitat can use in the future as part of an advocacy program. However, at this time we are still trying to focus in on some of the main issues that the organization can cover but this is quite difficult. There are so many different issues and every one is complex. I am making a lot of general issue documents and hoping that they can be specified either while I am still here or later in the future. A lot of my recommendations have focused on the need to collect research concerning the issues identified by the community but this will take time and is not able to be completed in my remaining time in Bangladesh. 
          This upcoming week I am going on a field visit with BRAC, a non-profit that started in Bangladesh but now works internationally and works on a wide variety of issues. According to Wikipedia BRAC is also the largest non-governmental organization in the world! I am excited to see how they work in the community and hopefully learn some methods that could be helpful in the project with habitat. 
          I cannot believe that in 3 weeks I will be starting the journey home, some days it seems like I just arrived and others it seems like I have been here for a long time. Over this past week I had a couple of conversations that really made me think about this experience and the universal nature of service. I was speaking with a habitat employee about the project and hopes for the future, we ended up speaking how the ways different roles in an organization are  important. It was a conversation that I feel like I had a lot when working as an administrative assistant and it just reminded me how service is such an all encompassing term. In our first semester at the Clinton School we were tasked with developing an individual definition of public service. Although this was a challenging assignment it was very interesting to see how the definitions varied among each member of the class. It was also a very refreshing conversation, it is easy to bogged down in the difficulty of finding out different information but then to get focused back in on why an organization like habitat is so important, when there are millions upon millions of people living in substandard housing or urban slums. 
          I will probably update soon with more details about my day with BRAC.