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Some happy kids with their bedkits
The journal for a trip as a volunteer traveller with Sleeping Children Around the World, the Canadian charity that provides bedkits to children in underdeveloped countries.
Some happy kids with their bedkits
A typical bedkit contains:
- Mat or mattress
- Pillow
- Blanket
- Mosquito Net
- Sheet
- Towel
- Clothing outfit
- School supplies
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Out-of-pocket costs
What will a trip like this cost you?
My expenses, including economy airfare, hotel, meals, vaccinations, required documents, share of in-country travel, and tips totalled just under $CAD 4,000.
Vaccines required prior to departure
- Typhoid (1 needle)
- Twinrix for Hepatitis A & B (3 needles)
- Tetanus/Diphtheria (1 needle)
- Dukoral (2 oral doses)
- Influenza
- Pneumonia
Drugs recommended for travel to Bangladesh
- Mefloquine or Malarone (Anti-malarial)
- Amoxil/Septra/Cipro (Antibiotics)
- Polysporin (Antibiotic Cream)
- Benadryl/Atarax (Anti-histamine)
- Tinactin/Canesten/Nizoral (Anti-fungal)
- Advil (Analgesics)
- Gravol (Anti-emetic)
- Tylenol (Fever)
- Imodium (Anti-Diarrhea)
- Epi-pen
- Ear/eye drops
Other useful items for trip (thanks to Marsha Hardy)
- Tincture of iodine or chlorine bleach for water purification
- Toilet paper
- Backpack
- High protein/high fibre snacks
- Laundry soap, stretchy clothesline and pegs, universal sink plug, plastic hangers
- Flip-flops
- Towel, facecloth
- Bed sheet and pillow case
- Wet wipes
- Insect repellant containing DEET
- Hat and sunglasses
- Sunscreen
- Extra eyeglasses
- Pepto-Bismol
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- Last distribution
- Team photo
- Crashworthy
- School days
- Construction site
- High touch
- Cricketeer
- Going down the road
- Bonus photo
- Homeward bound
- Toilet talk
- User feedback
- Arrival at Shibpur
- A long and winding road
- The pause that refreshes
- Pedal power
- School Days
- Team member down
- High fashion
- Sreenagar
- Waterworld
- Water taxis
- New friends
- Seeing things
- Back in Dhaka
- A shining beacon
- Let's sing
- Happiness is ...
- Record day
- Barisal
- Anchors away
- The entertainer
- Southern exposure
- A very long day
- Wheels of commerce
- Getting' outa Dodge
- This must be the place
- Takin' it home
- Smiles
- Distribution day one
- We're here
- Somewhere west of Kiev
- Halfway there
- Here we go
- Ready to go!
- Registering with Foreign Affairs
- Last of the meds
- A solution for team communications.
- Wireless woes
- The paper flies
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