If you have been following news about Bangladesh you will have noticed that there has been a call for a nationwide day-long work strike today.  As Bangladesh prepares for an election, emotions are running high particularly in the capital, Dhaka.

I wanted to let you know that our entire group stayed in Grace House today instead of traveling to placements.  There is no added risk for us to travel by foot in our neighbourhood so we are staying local to ensure that we avoid any political demonstrations. This is just a one day strike and we expect to be back to business as usual tomorrow.  If other general strikes are scheduled in the next couple weeks while we are here, we will follow similar protocol.

We ask for your prayers for Dhaka and for Bangladesh.  If you have any other questions, please direct those to Archi as I will be at a regional student conference without internet for the next 4 days.

Tom Pettigrew