International Volunteering and the Bangladeshi Diaspora
12 March:
By Sandra Kabir, Executive Director of BRAC UK, and Jebi Rahman, Programme Officer for Porishod, BRAC UK's Diaspora Volunteer Programme for British Bangladeshi Professionals. The programme is supported by DFID and VSO, who found that Diaspora communities are underrepresented in international volunteering when they could be playing a key role in development awareness. Sandra, whose extensive career in development began in Bangladesh in 1976, and Jebi, whose first experience of volunteering and visiting schools in Bangladesh in 2004 led her to further study an MSc in Comparative and International Education (Oxford University) discuss this and other issues surrounding the initiative and invite returned volunteers to share their experiences and opinions.