Mentors and friends

Students from Khulna University (KU) and Khulna University of Technology and Engineering (KUET), two high-quality universities in Bangladesh, volunteer to teach in EDS and Shishu Pali government orphanage (where EDS works) and mentor the children and youth to get education. They engage in our action research and their professors support EDS. The friends of EDS are all passionate about the EDS way of working. They are experienced professionals, and university and school students, who reside all over the world. In the eyes of the EDS children/youth, international people have high social capital. It’s unthinkable for a vulnerable child/youth in Bangladesh that international people will talk with or care about them. When our EDS friends call the EDS children/youth and acknowledge their volunteer work, the children/youth become more confident, feel they have value, and their EDS work is important. The motivation is mutual, as the EDS children/youth inspire the EDS friends that with courage, compassion, and endurance we can overcome any obstacle, and together we can create a more humane world.