PRESS RELEASE: Local Veterinarian Helps Needy Children in Bangladesh

From Bangladesh 2008 Photo Album

Doug MacDougald travelled as part of a team of six Canadians to help needy children in Bangladesh by distributing bedkit items to children who have never known the comforts of a proper bed. All team members travelled at their own personal expense to ensure that 8000 of the world’s neediest children would receive bedding items, clothes, mosquito nets and some simple school supplies. The team travelled throughout northern and central Bangladesh by various conveyances including rickshaw, barge, country steamer, baby taxi and van!

Doug has made a passionate commitment to a Charity that has been supported for many years by his parents. SLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD has been a part of his life for the past 20 years. I addition to this, his father flew for the Royal Canadian Air Force and was stationed in what is now Bangladesh in 1944 and 1945. In a small way, Doug feels that he is returning home!

SLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD is an exemplary Canadian Charity which from its inception has distributed over 950,000 bedkits to needy children in 33 different developing countries. Its founders, Murray and Margaret Dryden, parents of hockey legends Dave and Ken Dryden established this Charity in such a way that 100% of all donations go directly to the child who receives the bedkit. The Toronto Star recently listed this Charity as among its top five in Canada!

The bedkit that was distributed in Bangladesh contained articles of critical importance to the children. This included such items as:

• 1 mattress
• 2 mosquito nets
• 1 blanket
• 2 sheets
• 1 Gamcha ( all-purpose towel or scarf )
• 1 girl’s Salwar and Kameez or 1 Boy’s shirt and pants
• 1 pajamas
• 1 sandals
• 2 shawls
• 1 school bag
• 1 lunch box with drinking mug
• 1 pencil, sharpener and eraser
• 1 school notebook

Also available for download as a PDF file.

Click for high-res photo of Doug in Bangladesh.

For more information please contact Tamara Kaftalovich, Account Executive, Maverick Public Relations Inc @416-640-5525 or visit the Charity website @ www.scaw.org