Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
8-2013
Abstract
It was 1994 when aristocrat Runa Khan and her soon-to-be husband Yves Marre sailed a decommissioned oil barge from the waters off France to her home country of Bangladesh. They had intended to propose to charitable organisations of a revolutionary plan they had: to turn the shipping vessel into a mobile medical station.
The ship would bring medical help to the unreachable islands, or chars, that make up much of Bangladesh. It was a brilliant plan, and would have solved the problem of reaching isolated char communities, most of whom had been neglected by the government and NGOs (non-governmental organisations) due to their remote locations. She speaks more of her efforts in this paper.
Keywords
Medical aid, Bangladesh, NGO.
Disciplines
Asian Studies | Medicine and Health | Rural Sociology | Sociology
Copyright Owner and Holder
Copyright © Singapore Management University 2013
Licece/Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Subject(s)
Medical care; International agencies; Nonprofit organizations.
Citation
Singapore Management University.
Floating Hope. (2013).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/pers/41