Summary of Project Action

Dear friends and colleagues,


I have started my action plan of the project ‘Community development and building community capacity against corruption’ on 14 April, 2010. So far I have shared how I am going with my action through this blog. Today I am going to sum up the experience I have gathered with my action.


On 14 April, 2010 I talked for the first time about this project with some of my Bangladeshi friends at Guyatt Park, Brisbane on a social gathering. All of them agreed on the point of community participation against corruption. I found one friend who is really interested to participate actively with this project. I invited my friends and colleagues who are in Bangladesh through the message option of the blog. But blog is a new tool for me so to others. Therefore, I got more responses from them showing the interest on what blog is (?) rather than the project. Then I emailed them and tried to satisfy their interest. Again, I invited them to my blog for their response on the project via email.


The email sent to the community

This time I got some positive responses from my community in the ‘forum’ I created in my blog. However, I got few responses through email also by showing their interest. However, some of my community members emailed me that they want to work on this issue but they have some technical problems with blog or internet.


The response from the community member


So far with all the above efforts I am very encouraged to say that I have got some members from the community who showed their real interest to work on this project. It is also very appreciating for me to know that all of us want to do something for the benefit of the community or country. But most of us do not know what to do or how to do. For this what we need is to encourage them and bring them together. However, still we are in the network building stage and what we have agreed upon is that we all will try to motivate our friends or colleagues who are in our surroundings to spread the network in order to eventually create significant impact on alleviating corruption from the country.


I would like to thank you all for your encouragement and responses to make the project effective and look forward for your further feedback.


Best Regards,


Mohammad Rashed Wasif