BlueNote (see pic below) were featured on Radio Foorti this evening, talking in a 15-minute interview with RJ Fuad about our link to this campaign, as well as the presence of jazz for the first time in Dhaka. All good publicity...
Last night saw another collaboration between BlueNote and Future Shorts. with an evening of jazz and film at the Nordic Club. Again well attended, raising another £30 for the appeal.
We had another of our fundraising bashes at the BAGHA last night. Despite sheets of torrential rain, 89 people turned up for happy hour proving the old adage that no monsoon ever gets between a Brit and his/her pint. That's the spirit. And yes, we risked electrocution, but what does that matter when we raised another £200 for the cause...? Huzzah, chaps! (Pic by Mikey Leung)
We are campaigning to raise funds to pay for a new BNWLA shelter for survivors of abuse, rape, trafficking, domestic slavery and acid attacks, as well as people living with HIV and AIDS, and abandoned babies. It's to be built outside Dhaka and will provide a hostel, school, training centre and playing area. The hostel's aim is to help people initially recover from trauma in a safe environment and then look to the future, through reintegration with society: a new start and a chance to rebuild shattered lives for the women and children who pass through.