The UnCultured Project - One student’s haphazard project in Bangladesh to try and make the world a better place. Shawn Ahmed, A 26 year old former graduate student from the University of Notre Dame, liquidate his accounts, postpone his studies, and travel halfway around the world to hand out mosquito nets and clean water in a disaster area. He is chronicling his exploits on YouTube and Flickr under the pseudonym, “The Uncultured Project”. Ahmed has been in Bangladesh since late June.
I was inspired to come to Bangladesh for a small, short-term, and self-funded project to see what difference I can make in helping some of the world’s worst off. My goal is to inspire those who read this to ask themselves the question “are we doing enough to make a the world a better place?
The Young Hardworking Poor of Rural Bangladesh is a video from his series that are uploaded to Youtube. This video has featured on the noted blogs and news articles. Shawn explains “In this video I meet 30 kids who were forced to choose between either putting food on the table or getting an education. They are able to study part-time (for two hours each day) because local community members in this rural village pooled their money to form an informal school. The school teacher teaches these children English, Bengali, and Math all for a salary of $15 a month.”
Watch The Young Hardworking Poor of Rural Bangladesh
The UnCultured Project on Flickr
The UnCultured Project on Youtube
Source: Uncultured.com, Youtube, Nighi Videos
Guys !!! Shawn showed us the realities of poverty in the developing world and the difficult decisions that young kids must make. Lot of us coming from a developing nations, we are not new to such realities, but Shawn showed us what one could do. Please leave your comments and kind words to Shawn.
Note: We will continue to feature Shawn’s videos time to time as he uploads. Keep checking for more videos.
Hats off to this guy .. This will inspire a lot of people like me. It is very very true that poor people are not necessarily lazy.
Much kudos to this guy who wants to make a difference.
Also the number of comments on this article show how we all sit around and comment on stuff that we have no control over like politics and corruption but when it comes to real life situations that we could be part of no one wants to say anything.
My heartfelt support this brave soul who is out to make a difference and is making a difference as I speak.
I am very sad to see the luke-warm response to this topic. We fight over religion, political parties, our favorite heros .. but when it comes to realities like these .. we don’t even have a second to appreciate people.
I’m surprised to see one can go to such extent to serve people. God bless people like these. Good luck to Shawn ..
I appreciate this guy for his efforts..n setting out an example for many of us.
I can understan the lukewarm responce for this post. There is nothing here to debate about, coz everyone agrees on his efforts and no controversy’s over that. People seem to have varied opinion on controversy’s and would like to present their interpretations of that.
Apart from that, i feel that the major media needs to Highlight cases like these and need to emphasize on the difference that could be made if big corporates follow suite.
I would like to see the corporates to adopt some villages and bring in a change in the lifes of the poor. If atleast one corporate does this in a grand scale and if it were given proper coverage then it will bring in the rest of the corporates to do the same.
Good thinking from this guy. I have a piece of advice for him Change to Christinaity and change others in Bangladesh to change to christianity and you will get a lot of western funding for your project as they do by hook or cook in India and other places
Thats a good point raised by “zeenamaste”. I’m impressed with a post on Shawn’s blog about “Religion, Politics, and Fighting Poverty”. and All these western machineries come to India and other poor countries with one sole aim to convert them to Christianity. With one hand they show poor the money and with the other hand they will ask you to follow their religion.
Shawn quotes “Though our beliefs differ, our goals should be the same: We. Must. End. Poverty”. If these rich machineries can follow the same and serve the poor without any self-motives - they can surely make a difference in ending the poverty.
Great job bud ….. God bless you !!!
What is wrong with western missionaries coming to Poor countries and using compassion as a form of getting their point across? Did anyone ever think about the fact that “the money they show in one hand” is a form of compassion to help the poor and needy? All they ask in return is to hear their beliefs. No one ever forces them by saying we will only help you if you convert. We have so many different religious sects that use violence to stop these western missionaries. How is that justified. Everyone has a motive…… very seldom do we see people like Shawn who are just motivated by their passion to inspire change. If that was the norm we would see many like him but it is not……