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SUNDERBAN ADIBASHI MUNDA MOHILA SOMOBAY SOMITI Ltd.

Year: 02 SSSAAAMMMMMMSSSSSS NNNEEEWWWSSSLLLEEETTTTTTEEERRR Number: 07

Place: Jisur Nam Ashram Date: 03-08-2015

Dear readers, How are you? We hope you are doing well. We are not so fine. Here it has been raining since a long time. There is mud everywhere. We can’t go out to do our daily work. Garden vegetables have gone rotten. We hope better days will come...!

Anyway, in this newsletter we will tell you about: 1. Guests from Italy. 2. Natural calamities. 3. Health insurance. 4. Munda girls going to Italy.

The Munda Girls

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1. Guests from Italy

We have four guests in this place. They came here a week ago. They are

Fabio, Francesca, Elia and Chiara.

Fabio and Elia came to this place the first time five years ago. They are

our close friends and very hard workers. Elia is an architect and Fabio is

a mechanical engineer. The first time they came they built the stair case

of the pond. The second time they built a nice house where the Munda

girls can have a safe shelter.

This time they are also doing a lot of work for us.

They have repaired the electric line in the old building and have put a

roof on one of the new buildings.

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This time two young ladies have come with them: their names are Chiara

and Francesca. Fabio in engaged with Chiara and Elia with Francesca.

They will get married sooner or later. Chiara and Francesca have been

painting the walls of the new building during the day. In the morning

they teach English to the small girls and in the evening to the college

girls. They also teach Italian to the three girls who are supposed to go to

Italy in September.

We thank them for everything and we are very grateful to them .

They will remain in our mind forever.

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2. Natural Calamities

Bangladesh is a land of natural calamities. Every year Bangladesh is

affected by some kind of natural calamities such as: floods, storms,

draught, cyclones etc. The common natural ca lamity during the rainy

season is flood. This year we have had plenty of rain and fields are full

of water. Several times farmers have been sowing rice seeds in the fields

but too much rain has spoil them. So this year the farmers in the

southern part of Bangladesh may not be able to grow what they need to

feed their families.

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3. Health Insurance

You may know that our co-operative (SAMMSS) has a health insurance

scheme. Minoti Munda looks after this scheme. 90 members of

SAMMSS are also members of this scheme. They deposit 20 taka in the

health insurance scheme every month. Sick mothers and children are

entitled to get help for medical purposes under this scheme.

A few days ago we gave 3500 taka (three thousand and five hundred

taka) to a sick woman to meet her medical expenses. Her name is Sabula

Munda.

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4.Three Munda girls going to Italy

Next September three Munda girls (two already married and one still

unmarried) are supposed to attend a meeting on micro credit at the

EXPO in Milan.

The three lucky young ladies are:

Ms Nilima Munda, the directress of SAMMSS

Ms Sahionti Munda, the field worker

Miss Chompa Munda, the cashier

They will return to Bangladesh at the end of September.

We wish them all the best during their staying in that foreign country so

different from ours.

And we’ll be waiting for their return to hear about their experience of

another world and another culture.