The morning of our last full day in Khulna was filled with Rotary and professional visits. Our first destination was the University Hospital and the University itself, which I didn't even think to take pictures of, and then we got to visit a small farm owned by one of our hosts. Gave us a good idea of what goes into growing and processing rice.... The young man in these pictures is my host-brother, Sakib...
From there we moved on to a Brac school for underprivileged children. The kids only had a chalkboard tablet and a few books to work with, but their handwriting was very neat, and they sang and danced for us! We had picked up a camera crew by this point, they were filming a few of our visits for a short segment on one of the news channels!
Then we moved on to another Brac project, where they give land to local families and teach them how to grow crops (generally rice) and then how to manage it. This was where the camera crew interviewed us individually, but they saved Dr. Tonya for an on-set interview once we got back to Dhaka.
As we were leaving, a local farmer gave us some green coconuts to drink from, and although I personally am not a fan (It's too sweet for me, which is really saying something) the other girls enjoyed it and the "slime" which is what the meat tastes and feels like before it fully ripens...
To top off our day we had our last Rotary meeting in Khulna, but I think the best part was that one of our host-fathers took a picture of us that morning visiting the hospital, and by that night they had a sign made welcoming us to their club with that same picture! Kinda impressive!
They were also celebrating the 29th anniversary of their club charter...
This is Khurshida, she is from Seattle- she sat at our table and was telling us about her NGO that works against human trafficking... We all fell in love with her, very sweet and very driven young lady!
The next morning we ate breakfast with Meredith's host family and lunch with Holly's, but then we had to get on the bus to Jessore to catch our flight back to Dhaka!
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