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Sharna Bremner
Outreach Blogger
8 July 2010

Throwing two Aussies into a country where they don’t speak a word of the language, with a somewhat lofty goal of connecting the world with some poverty-stricken slum dwellers could have been a recipe for disaster. Lucky for us, it was the opposite.

As I sit here at home in chilly Adelaide, bundled up in my Snuggie (yes, I’m a Snuggie person. And I’m not ashamed to admit it), the only sound I can hear is my dog’s snores.

The loud and chaotic streets of humid Dhaka seem a lifetime ago.

In our whirlwind two week quest in Bangladesh, we met amazing people, learnt more than we probably expected to, made lifelong friends, ate great food and managed to achieve some outstanding things.

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Sharna Bremner
Outreach Blogger
9 June 2010

Today was a momentous day. After much planning, some lengthy discussions and some minor hiccups, the ActionAid Bangladesh blog went live.

It might not seem that exciting to any of you, but for us and the ActionAid staff, it was roughly the equivalent of Australia winning the World Cup. Or for the Bangladeshi’s, it was the equivalent of Brazil or Argentina winning the Cup.

Not only does ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) now have an amazing blog where you can follow projects such as one of the Happy Home’s or the innovative Community Journalist Group’s, but they also have a Twitter account. Yep, the gang at AAB will now be tweeting, blogging and taking over the world, one social media outlet at a time.

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