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Bangladesh



Shams-il Arefin Islam '06 turns garbage into gold. 

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Anthropologist Melendy Krantz ’09 unveils a social revolution among Muslim women in Bangladesh.

By Lorraine Berry

How does a young woman who grew up in Vermont wind up in a coffee house 7,800 miles away, asking other young women about their social and sexual...

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Caitlin Burnett ’05 spends an eye-opening summer in Bangladesh working to help the disabled.  by Greg Ryan ’08

Caitlin Burnett ’05 sat among the two dozen Bangladeshi women and children who had assembled on the straw mats in their village center. As always, she began the meeting by asking those gathered why they had come. One woman, crouching in...

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