I have recently returned from a two-week trip to Bangladesh on behalf of Quaker Service Sweden, to visit Sabalamby Unnayan Samity (Self-reliance Development Group, abbreviated as SUS), an organisation whose projects we support. It was my second visit in two years. The SUS working area is the rural rice-growing district of Netrakona and the crowded city of Mymensingh, in the northern part of Bangladesh. In this area travelling takes a long time. Many of the roads are full of potholes, while others are simply dirt tracks. We held our breath, too, as our skilful driver crossed perilous bridges, where the holes are covered over with corrugated metal strips. Two years ago the rivers were high and fish plentiful, now the water levels were alarmingly low, due partly to unusually dry periods and partly to the effect of dams erected in neighbouring India.

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