St Andrews Interact Club visit Bangladesh

Wed, Jan 10th 2024 at 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm

Dennis and Lorraine Hopper took 5 Interact members on a Cultural Visit arranged by invitation from the Dhaka Downtown Rotary Club, Bangladesh.

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Rotarian Dennis Hopper described a cultural visit he and his wife Lorraine undertook in 2005 with a party of five Interact Club students from Madras College. The Rotary contact in Dhaka was Iqbal, a past District Governor, who had been involved when, a few years earlier, the Rotary Club of St Andrews raised funds for a project to establish wells for good drinking water. Before their trip the five students, all girls, raised money to buy furniture for classrooms in the local school. They arrived in Dhaka for a week’s stay in March when the weather was very hot and dusty, and the traffic, as always, utterly chaotic! A series of day-trips ensued hosted by local Rotary clubs, including visits to tea estates to the north, to schools and cultural functions, to the rain forest and local villages, to a jute mill. Then it was on to the village where the wells had been sunk and classrooms and desks had been presented by the St Andrews' club; to a girls’ college where the Madras students presented books; to see silk weaving in progress. Before leaving for home they flew to Cox’s Bazaar with its famous beach where they were guests of the Rotary Club of Islamabad. Then back to Dhaka and the flight home……..All agreed it had been a fascinating cultural insight, challenging but absolutely memorable and rewarding. Vote of thanks, David Hill whose daughter had been one of the five Madras students who went on the trip