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2008 photos

The Wear Surma Clinic Bangladesh

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The Clinic has just had a fresh coat of paint!
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The building was funded by Soroptimists in 1997

This youngster is 14 years old
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We hope to fund plastic surgery for him

One of the twelve tube wells
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Shut down because of arsenic contamination

Carole, with Asgor Ali and his family
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These children are from a minority Hindu family
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There are the very poorest in the village

Carole handing out some little cardigans
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They were knitted by a partially sighted friend in Newcastle

A typical family group
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The first latrine in the village....A milestone!
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Not quite finished before we left!

The deep bore well
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It hit fresh water at 680 feet

Carole, student and tutor
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Some of the villagers have great skill
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See a finished mat and a couple of baskets below

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Brought to the Clinic for assessment
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A youngster with a congenital deformity

Andrew and Kokun prepared a fish curry......
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..for solar cooking! another milestone!!

Kokun, Andrew and Ken.
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Keeping an eye on the Solar Ovens!

Rotarians from Jalalabad Rotary Club
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Very impressed with the Solar Cooked meal!

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"Taking health to the people of Bangladesh"