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Guide Tours online fundraising complete: $1,855 raised

Posted on 21. Jan, 2008 by Mikey Leung in Sundarbans
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A woman stands with her young daughter while collecting relief goods being delivered from CARITAS. Villagers suffered greatly during the cyclone. Many lost their homes, boats and livelihoods. Nevertheless, people are now busy picking up the pieces and rebuilding their lives. See more photos here..

Dear Donors,

Well aware that this message is late in coming, we would like to announce to you all the final total of the funds raised via this website for the Guide Tours Cyclone Sidr relief initiative that we began shortly after Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh.

I am proud to let you know that we raised $1,855 USD by various means.

$1,555 was raised by individual donors sending their money to us directly, and the last $300 was raised by selling Bangladesh travel photography in Beijing. Our friends, Andrea Dowd-Dever and Benjamin Binks, sold our photography at Beijing’s Hutong cultural space.

Guide Tours has told us that they will wrap up all their relief activities by the end of this month, which basically consisted of bringing immediate needs goods to the affected areas. You can read their first field report here.

Once again, on behalf of the benefactors, we would like to thank you for your donation to our effort, and we hope that you can stay in touch with us via this website. Feel free to subscribe to www.joybangla.info using the subscription box at the left.

Travellers take matters into their own hands

In an entirely separate initiative to the Guide Tours relief effort, another individual traveller decided to conduct his own private relief effort with our assistance. Michael Mangano was already planning a visit to Bangladesh to join in our research, but after the cyclone happened, he raised $1,005 from friends and family before coming to assist in the relief of one specific villager of the Sundarbans. You can read more here
and watch a video about our work below:

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