Dear friends,
VCU School of Medicine (shoutout!!) was kind enough to lend me a video camera for my travels to Bangladesh this summer, and I have been trying to take full advantage of it by shooting some documentary-style clips from the slums here in Dhaka. So today I went to the slums to interview some people about life in this crowded, dirty, impoverished place. What I found was a love story! I randomly knocked on someone's door (not surprising to anyone who knows me) and asked if I could interview them. In this tiny, cramped room were a young couple. Despite their poverty, their room was decorated with pictures of some of the seven wonders of the world, as well as a color wedding photo showing a young bride in a bright red sari (the traditional color of marriage). Both were about my age, and had been married for two years. Most Bengali marriages are arranged, but this pair had both been residents of this slum, and both worked at the same garments factory. they had undertaken what is referred to in Bangladesh as a "love marriage." Their story reminds me, that despite poverty and material want, there is always humanity, and rarely are human beings are rarely without love.
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