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Sacrifices, Challenges, & Opportunities

Where do I begin? There was no one word that could describe how I felt as I was packing up to go home. I felt kind of foolish because the real straw that broke the camel’s back was my dead LaCie harddrive. When I got home, after the culture shock, I felt lucky. The blood tests I took here helped explained why I was feeling so sick, tired, and ill those last few months in Bangladesh. But, in the best case scenario, this problem was due to the iron-heavy drinking water in Bangladesh. What does that say about what awaits me when I return? I certainly don’t want to stop this project – although, given the financial (and now medical) strains, it’s only a matter of time until I have to stop.

This video is one of my sadder videos. It’s also one of the least watched videos on my channel. So if you haven’t already, please do take a look:

Some photos of my return trip after the jump.

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The Urban Poor of Dhaka City

There is a new photoset up on my Flickr page called “The Urban Poor of Dhaka City”. These were photos I took about a block from where I live. There is this sidewalk thats been basically turned into a shanty town or slum.

I once had a friend in college who would scoff at my focus on Third World Poverty. “There are homeless in Toronto you know!” he would tell me (Toronto being my hometown). I would just shake my head and tell him he doesn’t understand. Yes, there is homeless in the developed world – but you can’t even begin to compare the two.

Maybe if he saw this in person he’d understand better.

Hungry, Homeless, Young, and Poor

These homeless don’t have the luxury of a soup kitchen.

More photos here.