Blog

Healing in Bangladesh – Help Us Open a Women’s and Children’s Natural Health Centre

Recently, we responded to a plea for help from a group of Doctors in Bangladesh, who are in charge of 8 medical centres throughout the poorest parts of Dhaka, who had in their charge over 4000 children in need of care and treatments outside of traditional...
Read More

Day 9 and 10 in Bangladesh

Thursday 24th March – Day 9 We told our Bangladeshi team that we would have the day off today to rest. They were relieved too. It’s been stressful on them also, looking after us and communicating difficult messages to parents who fervently...
Read More

Day 7 & 8 in Bangladesh

Tuesday 22/3/16 – Day 7 We have treated so many children since we’ve been here with a vast range of variations of the same conditions. We thought we’d seen everything, until today. One severely brain-damaged girl, Ahida, 8 months old,...
Read More

Day 5 & 6 in Bangladesh

Sunday 20/3/16 – Day 5 A day off! In Australia, a day off can mean having a sleep in, doing household chores we don’t get to do through the week, watching a favourite TV show or movie or perhaps catching up with friends. Here, sleeping till...
Read More

Day 3 and 4 in Bangladesh

Friday 17/3/16 – Day 3 Bangla Belly has hit! We all woke up with tummy pains and diarrhoea. We’d visited some physician friends of the Dr the night before and had supper with them. The tap water they served we probably could have dealt with,...
Read More

Continuing work in Bangladesh

Thursday 16/3/16 The day dawned much brighter, with sunshine and blue sky today. Our first breakfast arrived late as everyone likes to sleep in. Then we went to the clinic by tuk-tuk. What a wild ride (with some near misses) through the streets and markets...
Read More

Culture Shock

15/03/2016 Colleen, Micheal and I went to bed quite late after packing all clothes, supplements and first aid supplies.  I think I was too excited to sleep.  I was still working out what I needed to do the next morning to complete the admin for the...
Read More