Please come to Bangladesh...

Last Spring I received an email from a man named Rubel asking me to bring Caring Coins to Bangladesh. At first, I didn't quite know what to make of his message. First of all, who was this person? And how did he find the You Are Never Alone Foundation? And what would make him think we would come to Bangladesh?

As we communicated, I found out the he is the founder of a legetimate non-profit organization working for a better Bangladesh. He found us when he was searching the internet for organizations that reach out to others. He had seen how Caring Coins had gone to Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana and Spanish coins had gone to Ecuador and Guatemala...so why not Bangladesh?

He went on to explain how the people and especially the children of Bangladesh feel they have been forgotten by the world. The Caring Coins with their message You are never alone would be a perfect reminder for them that people had not forgotten Bangladesh.

I explained to him that other people who were volunteers already going to these places had brought the Caring Coins with them. The Foundation had provided the Caring Coins but we did not bring them ourselves. I suggested the perhaps we could send a video with a Caring message along with Caring Coins for him to distribute.

Rubel said that this would not work. First of all they do not have the technology to show the video in the places it would be most needed and more importantly, it would mean so much more if a "foreigner" came with the coins. As I thought about that, I remembered how much it meant to the Katrina survivors in Houston that I had come from Vermont to give them the Caring Coins.

To be continued...