Bangladeshi children love to have their picture taken. I was walking down the street one day with my camera and all of these neighborhood children jumped in a rickshaw with big smiles requesting that I take that picture. I couldn't resist.
Halfway through our time in Bangladesh, my site mate and I moved to a different apartment down the road. We transported all our household goods by rickhsaw. Moving day in our town looked very different than it may have in the United States.
Pinky, my student at the Department of Youth Development, is teaching a hygiene class in a poor part of Comilla. One part of our class involved a community outreach project.
This is a photo that I took of the groundbreaking ceremony in April 2004 for the new Youth Training Center in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh. It was a grand ceremony with everyone getting dressed up for the local member of parliament.
The streets were papered before local elections. Each candidate had their own symbol that people could identify and vote for even if they were not literate.