Heidelberg, 26 February 2010

Charity Party "Bengali Blast"

On the 25th of February 2010 a charity concert for the children’s village Haluaghat in Bangladesh was held in the Billyblues at the Ziegler under the name “Bengali Blast“. The rock and alternative-rock bands performing were 1, 2,… JETZT! from Heidelberg, Eat That Frog from Stuttgart and Die Kunstbanausen from Adelmannsfelden. The 90 guests and three sponsors present donated more than 1000 Euros, thus making the event a complete success for the street children in Bangladesh’s capitol of Dhaka. “We are very happy that the guests as well as the bands, some of which had to travel quite a distance to get here, had a great time at the Party and are overwhelmed by the willingness to support from the Heidelberg residents,” says Maqsuda Afroz, project executive and Ph.D. student at the Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Physics. (more…)

Flyer "Bengali Blast"

Heidelberg, 31 January 2010

As night falls on Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, more than 200,000 children do not go home to a warm and cozy bed. Instead they roam the streets of the city, often barefooted and scantily clad, looking for a safe shelter to sleep.

Located in South Asia, Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations in the world with a GDP per capita of about 525 USD (2009). One of the most exposed and excluded groups of Bangladesh’s society are the street children, whose number the government estimates at around 380.000, 55% of which live in the capital of Dhaka. Approximately every second of these children (49%) is under the age of ten. (more…)