The three months that I have spent in Bangladesh have been exhilarating and frustrating, remarkable

Throughout the summer, I have blogged about people who have been associated with BERDO, talked

The following vlog is the last in a series of five on the new initiative

The following vlog is the fourth in a series of five on the new initiative

The following vlog is the third in a series of five on the new initiative

The following vlog is the second in a series of five on the new initiative

The following vlog is the first in a series of five on the new initiative

About a third of the visually impaired people that I have talked with during my

The following blog, though not related to BERDO, is about an entity that is central to

Tehran, 2000 A young blind boy Mohammed waits for his father to take him home

On the eve of International Literacy Day, Dhaka-based NGOs that work on disability rights addressed a

Wajed Ali Mallick lived a contented life in quaint little Gowachitta in Southern Bangladesh. During

A common feature of all my meetings with females who had taken loans from BERDO

The success of micro-credit programmes all over the world has given rise to a new

BERDO’s micro-credit programme loans out sums starting from Tk 5000 upto Tk 20000 to disabled

Mir Salim was eighteen months when he fell ill with typhoid and lost his eyesight.

Once every week at 9 am in the morning in Banaripara in Barisal division of

In an earlier post, I had touched upon how development in Bangladesh has been suspended

Laxity at the workplace is both a bane and a boon in Bangladesh. While it

I am back from a trip to Panchagarh, a sleepy town 42 km from the

Power outages are a common occurrence in Dhaka. While two power cuts (known as load shedding

Imran Bapari is from Rajarhat, a village in Rajshahi division in the north-western corner of

BERDO was started on the 17th of July, 1991. I had the opportunity to follow

My first few days at BERDO have been full of stops and starts. Work progresses

  “My friend came to me, with sadness in his eyes He told me that