'Color me Red' in Bangladesh

by travellingLite
(currently on the road)

Hands-on

I worked with Hands-on Disaster Response (hodr.org) in Bangladesh earlier this year.

It was an impulsive decision, I couldn't make it to the project in Peru, so decided to start my extended trip with volunteering.

We built houses, playgrounds, schools - everything. We lived, worked with the community without the luxury of AC SUVs (the bigger NGOs seem to have a lot of those) or even fans in the bedrooms.

Work was hard, six days a week of mostly construction but then, once in while, there were fun side-projects as well like distributing photos in the villages, which essentially means 4 hours of celebrity status :)

It was the single most rewarding and moving experience of my life and I wanted to share it with you all!

You can read a lot more about this kind of work
on my blog.

You can also look at photos here on Flickr.

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'Color me Red' in Bangladesh

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I've heard about this before
by: Scribetrotter

This isn't the first time I hear about this group - and others who have volunteered with them, in Haiti and in Bangladesh, sing their praises. It's apparently very hard work, but extremely satisfying as well.