Mymensingh & Bogra office visits
We have mentioned before that MCC Bangladesh has three offices. We are located in the Dhaka office and know the staff quite well. We don’t see staff in the other offices often so made a trip this past week to visit individually with staff. You can go to one of our first posts to see a map of where the three offices are located. Our days were spent mostly in meeting individual staff members to learn about their joys and concerns. So we took very few photos from that.
We did stop in on a peace training led by two MCC staff members. This was TOT (training of trainers). The participants will use the information as they work with young people in communities. The group gave us a musical welcome. (We have two good videos of the music but don’t have the software to reduce their size so that we can link them here.) Their group work was to define “peace” and then share their ideas with the rest of the group. Another activity was writing one’s name on a paper and passing the paper around the small group and each person wrote one good quality of that person.
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- welcome song
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- more singing
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- group activity
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- describing activity
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- “my quality” activity
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- MCC staff
We also met with another small group who run a women’s training center. And in another office men were preparing posters for a crop training.
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- women trainers
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- women trainers
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- preparing posters
We love talking to the MCC staff and learning from them. We also enjoy the many scenes along the way even though the trip is long. (It was 4 ½ hours to Mymensingh, 5 ½ hours on to Bogra, and then 7 hours back to Dhaka!)
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- newly planted rice fields
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- rice fields
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- mustard
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- market
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- market
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- road building
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- apartments
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- farm wagon
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- vegetables
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- chickens
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- bamboo
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- monkey
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- bananas!
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- “toll road keeper”
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- look at those horns!
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- buffalo
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- roadside market