2023-11-03 10:25
In March 2023, FMSI (Marist Foundation for
International Solidarity) and the CCIG (International Catholic Centre of
Geneva), with the support of the Marist Brothers Trust Bangladesh, s… Read More
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Uwavutse wants to share with you his missionary experiences in several countries
2022-12-23 18:42
Suchorita, that’s her name, does not scare me, how could such a defenseless and fragile little thing frighten me. How could such an angelic smile and such flimsy little hands sca… Read More
2022-12-08 17:34
The youth in the photo are some of the boys and girls who have just received their Secondary School Certificate (SSC). They belong to the first group that started the adventure of the first… Read More
2022-03-27 14:13
God sometimes sends you gifts when you need them most. Well, the truth is that he sends them to you when he just wants to. Today he has given me a good moment with these children. We have pl… Read More
2022-03-06 14:59
Today we went for mass to a little village lost in the tea plantations a few kilometers from our school. The place is called Mirtinga. And as you can see in the photo, everything was there… Read More
2022-03-05 07:23
Now that things are back to normal (fingers crossed), and we have the school and the hostels fully operational, with more students than ever, the effects that these almost two years of schoo… Read More
2022-02-12 05:43
These two children are students of our school. And as you can see, instead of studying they are working. One with the hoe preparing fertilizer and the other as a shopkeeper in his father's t… Read More
2022-02-08 11:26
It is quarter past four in the afternoon when I ran into this lady. She has been working all day since 8 in the morning picking tea. She has collected 23 kilos of leaves, which have been wei… Read More
2022-01-29 05:49
These boys are our students, the group of older boys. They have been in our school for 5 years, of which two have been practically blank due to the pandemic. Since March 2020 they have had a… Read More
2022-01-04 15:10
Because so far this boy hasn't gotten very good cards. He hasn’t been lucky with his parents' marriage, he was put to work in a biscuits factory when he was 11, they interrupted his sc… Read More
2021-12-30 06:44
The day before yesterday this little boy surprised me again. He had been rummaging through God knows what rubbish can and found the remains of a lamp that someone had thrown away, broken and… Read More
2021-12-22 11:17
The prophecies are about to be fulfilled. In fact many have already become true. Those prophecies say that there will be a new heavens and a new earth where crying will never be heard again… Read More
2021-12-20 15:14
Yesterday was one of the most difficult days of the year for me. It is the day we have interviews with families wanting to bring their children to our boarding school. We had 20 places and a… Read More
2021-12-13 15:02
What do you have in that plastic bag? I asked Nozrul yesterday afternoon. "Nothing; just some eggplants from my garden for Roshid's family. They are from my little garden and it occurr… Read More
2021-12-01 12:41
Her husband died at home. This photo is all that is left of him. Two days dying without being able to do anything for him, without being able to take him to a hospital or give him medicines… Read More
2021-11-12 18:50
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly,” said a poet. Don't let what you live for fade away. You need to keep your whys alive. The… Read More
2021-11-02 10:19
"We will stay with you" is what the people of Tibhirine heard the monks say when things got ugly in Algeria. "We will stay here", is what our Brothers of Bugobe responded by phone to the su… Read More
2021-09-27 17:02
You are a child; you belong to a minority tribe. You were born in a lost village on a tea plantation, in a remote area of a remote country. If I took you to a hospital, they would find intes… Read More
2021-08-13 17:08
Three months ago I had a couple of heart attacks. I came to Spain just in time to be operated by a fantastic doctor who removed some tumors and fixed my body. Now I am recovering my st… Read More
2021-05-10 06:07
This woman weighs 28 kilos. Indefinite age, wrinkled skin, a couple of teeth still in her mouth, and still she forces herself to come and pick up a sack with food with flour, milk, rice and… Read More
2021-05-01 14:51
I had to come to the Tea Plantations of Bangladesh and get old to realize some important things. For example, if you tell yourself a story several times a day, you end up believing it to be… Read More
2021-04-18 13:49
I met this boy for the first time seven years ago, when we came to live in Giasnogor. He was a kid not taller than my waist. He lives next door with his parents and siblings. He fell sick an… Read More
2021-03-29 04:36
Here you have this child whose name I won’t say. His mother took him to us this afternoon seeking for help. I have asked the mother what is his age, “4 or 5 months?” I was… Read More
2021-03-06 09:47
"Which class do you read in?" I asked to this boy in Bormachora village, lost in the middle of the tea plantations in southern Sreemongol. "I read in class 3," he replied. "Read" is the wor… Read More
2021-02-25 10:49
There are things that you can’t buy. I can buy you clothes, but I can't buy you a future. Not with money, not with friends, not with influences, not even with good luck. There are thin… Read More
2021-01-29 12:15
2021-01-26 15:20
Lord, You know better than I that I am growing older and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Rele… Read More
2021-01-24 15:43
Didi was drawing clean water from our well like many other neighbor women to our school. Every day, in the morning and in the afternoon, we open the doors so that their families can access t… Read More
2021-01-14 03:47
They were all there, sitting in a circle, listening to what I was saying. For two days we have gathered all the educators from our little school, the first Marist school in a Muslim country… Read More
2020-12-30 12:26
I found them sitting on a bench this morning as I went to my office. Alone and quiet. Then I asked them and they told me that they had come to enroll in our school. They are brothers a… Read More
2020-12-23 13:00
Hoping is not the same as waiting. You wait for the bus to arrive; you also wait in line to get to the doctor. However, to be hopeful is to believe that something important is going to… Read More
2020-12-11 06:11
What you see in the photo are my sandals. They had broken up. This man got them fixed in 10 minutes. If it had happened in my country, most likely I would have thrown them away and bought a… Read More
2020-12-09 03:30
Last Sunday we distributed firewood to our neighbors in Giasnogor. As the hostel is still closed due to the virus, we had firewood that was almost beginning to rot and we decided to share it… Read More
2020-12-03 12:34
There are no weapons more powerful than the words. Some say that words are blown away by the wind. It is not true. The words reach the hearts and there they stay, sometimes for a long time… Read More
2020-11-29 17:07
I am always winner. Every time I speak or enter in connection with the people of the tea plantation, our neighbors. Today, as every month, we have had a feeding program, we have provided a b… Read More
2020-11-25 12:01
Like everyone else, I too have been thinking a lot during the pandemic. Many times a song from my childhood has come to my mind, “I thought that man was great because of his power&hell&hell…Read More
2020-11-10 06:10
The boy in the photo should weigh 50 kilos. At least that's what the statistics say for 14-year-olds. Ajit, that’s his name, was in our boarding school until the coronavirus closed it… Read More
2020-09-27 10:08
We were handing out bags of food to our neighbors at the tea plantation in Giasnogor. (We keep distributing proteins in this time of pandemic, in which the poor are getting poorer.) Then one… Read More
2020-09-18 15:53
Do you think this woman has a sprained right hand? Well she does. It happened to her during the long working hours at the tea plantation. Her husband has come looking for me urgently, cryin… Read More
2020-08-21 12:28
I went on vacation for six weeks and it turned out to be six months of absence. I tried to come back six times and only on the sixth was I able to do so. They are now behind, but deep insid… Read More
2020-02-17 15:27
His name is Raj (the King) and, as you can see in the photo, he will not be more than 15 or 16 years old. Well, Raj has put an end to a couple of days of nightmare by fixing the broken front… Read More
2019-10-18 16:37
It is 9 am. The students just entered the classrooms a few minutes ago. The bustle gives way to the singing of the national anthem and then to something similar to silence. Classes have begu… Read More
2019-09-19 12:56
"There are still good people in the world," I have heard this a thousand times to highlight someone's goodness. I am lucky enough to meet many of those people in the years that I have been i… Read More
2019-09-07 00:51
It is not that we are fighting; we love each other more than ever, although I am unfaithful more than ever. They say that young lovers need to say they love each other every so often; nevert… Read More
2019-08-03 16:41
Bangladesh is suffering from a dengue outbreak. Only yesterday 1,649 people had to be hospitalized, not counting those who went to the doctor, received outpatient treatment and were sent hom… Read More
2019-07-09 15:27
You never know what God is going to put on your Facebook wall every day. Today, for example, I expected a quiet day; one hour office work at the school, a couple of hours to write a report t… Read More
2019-06-29 04:52
I had given up. After a great visit to Doublechora with our friends from Red Bend (fantastic people), the car got stuck in a bad way, as you can see in the photo. First we tried to push, wit… Read More
2019-06-20 16:13
A picture is worth a thousand words. Much more. In this video from Australian Marist Solidarity you will see first where our students come from, and then what we try to do WITH themUna image… Read More
2019-06-10 12:45
Sometimes I am afraid of God, especially when, like today, I visit the people of the neighboring tea plantation and I find images as you can see above and below these lines. Children and adu… Read More
2019-02-16 12:40
They have a lot of fun, the kids here. They are happy, creative, simple and a bit innocent. We had to tamp a field to play football; then they started with the most classic, that is, going a… Read More
2019-02-03 15:54
The first thing that came to my mind this morning in Doublechora when visiting this family was the image of the Virgin Mary with Jesus in her arms at the foot of the cross. The girl's name i… Read More
2019-01-28 04:42
The tea plantations in our area are stunning. They are like a green carpet with changing nuances according to the season and according to the time of day. A tapestry that extends as far as t… Read More
2019-01-17 07:39
Running away is not necessarily a bad thing. It can be the occasion to make something new arise. Not long ago in the movie Outcast, I heard this dialogue: "- So far from home, are you runnin… Read More
2018-12-30 14:55
A very long year is over in which so many things have happened, in which so many things have happened to me. And I have the intuition that "life is not simply a series of accidents or meanin… Read More
2018-12-24 18:32
In the same way that Jesus did not come to be born in Rome or Jerusalem, the important places of that time, I think that if today He came again he would not be born in New York or London or… Read More
2018-11-28 15:44
Look at this little girl putting all her attention on copying words from the book in her notebook. Ant, Ass, Ax, Apple ... They are undoubtedly some of the first words she manages to write i… Read More
2018-11-26 19:49
The sun was setting and everything seemed quiet. I was chatting with some Italian journalists who have come to visit us. Everything was calm and under control. And then suddenly God has sent… Read More
2018-10-25 14:51
You are serving but you are not a servant. It is one of the messages that we want to embed in the hearts of the boys and girls of our school. Most come from the tea plantations where work is… Read More
2018-10-10 12:19
You meet wonderful people when you least expect it. Today we have visited Bormachora, a small village lost in the middle of the tea plantations near Sreemongol. And there I found the genius… Read More
2018-10-02 11:59
I have had a puncture. And when we fixed it, we discovered that a tiny screw had been the culprit. A tiny screw a thousand times smaller than the wheel and millions of times lighter than the… Read More
2018-09-27 16:41
"Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruits," says Francis. Nobody better than Didi knew it before the Pope said it. Despite the appearances, Didi, which you see… Read More
2018-09-13 12:41
One of the girls in the photo is going to get married. She is barely 16 years old and therefore her wedding would be illegal. That's why the family goes around trying to get someone to falsi… Read More
2018-09-08 17:03
They say that secrets generate distrust; someone hiding things from you is somehow leaving you out of his/her life. On the other hand, those who know how to keep a secret generate trust; kno… Read More
2018-09-02 12:02
The eyes of the kids that we have in Giasnogor are eloquent. Most times they say more than their lips. They speak of innocence and candor, of suffering and effort, of desire to leave and fea… Read More
2018-08-29 15:26
Apparently the guilty was a squirrel. A couple of nights ago we heard three explosions coming from the current transformer. Immediately we had a black out. The next morning the employees of… Read More
2018-08-23 15:40
Not everything is always beautiful. Many times in life you do what you have to do, like it or not. It may happen that circumstances make us doubt almost everything. It matters more to be fai… Read More
2018-08-08 16:52
For the second consecutive year we are receiving volunteers in Giasnogor. People from Australia and Spain have come, all of them from Marist schools or Marist environments. People who have d… Read More
2018-07-24 15:05
I still haven’t found a single boy or girl in our school in Giasnogor who isn’t grateful. Every time I finish a class with them, when they leave the classroom, all, one by one, c… Read More
2018-07-18 15:50
The lady in the photo is eleven years younger than me. The other day I took her to the doctor because she was so weak that she could barely stand, and she has two grandchildren in charge bec… Read More
2018-07-08 14:57
It has been moving. Today we went to a small village lost in the middle of the tea plantations called Kalachora 9. There the Shishu Mongol was being celebrated, the children's party. Directe… Read More
2018-06-28 17:41
Today I went to visit with James and Michael, two Australian Marist teachers, a village called Longlia. It is a punji, that is, an enclave of the Kashia tribe in which people live on the cul… Read More
2018-06-22 14:54
We have had a long month holiday due to the celebration of Ramadan and the Eid-Ul-Fitr festival in Bangladesh. And suddenly today everybody has returned; Brother Martí (headmaster), B… Read More
2018-06-06 12:59
A man has come this afternoon. He entered with short steps and with a plastic bag in his hands. Head low like most people in the tea plantation, who have been taught since their childhood no… Read More
2018-05-08 15:56
The 18 months that Monojit has been on this planet have not been very pleasant. His mother brought him to me last night so that I could see him. The child cried and cried. He had been like t… Read More
2018-04-21 12:39
Ten years and four months ago the Marist Brothers arrived in this blessed country called Bangladesh. And these are the years that it has taken to have our first Bangladeshi Marist Brother, n… Read More
2018-03-14 07:13
2018-03-05 11:37
Ahmed, the boy in the photo, does not give the impression of being unhappy. He has put a bit of creativity and has made a prince's crown from the remains of a paracetamol package. It does no… Read More
2018-02-14 08:29
I once attended a conference given by two young ladies belonging to an NGO in Bangladesh; the conference was about child abuse. When I heard them talk, and saw the way they dressed and makeu… Read More
2018-01-29 08:12
I took this picture last Sunday going to visit the parents of a child from our school. The family lives on top of a hill near Mirtinga, in the middle of one of the many tea plantations in no… Read More
2018-01-15 01:36
Life has not treated Krisna, 12-year-old girl in the photo, very well so far. Her mother died a few months ago and then her father left and went with another woman leaving her and her little… Read More
2018-01-07 14:56
I do not know how I'm going to tell you this. It has been very strong. I was leaving home with the car this afternoon and, as usual, children around began to greet me loudly. One of them, Pr… Read More
2017-12-30 15:09
2017 has been one of the most intense years that I have ever lived. I think that never in my already long life had so many things happened to me and especially so many new things. I'm not th… Read More
2017-12-23 11:08
Christmas is you when you decide to be born again each day and let God into your soul.The Christmas card is you, when kindness is written in your hands(Pope Francis)Merry Christmas! In… Read More
2017-12-17 14:55
Today we closed the academic year at our school. The first year of our journey. There has been a great party with dances, songs and sketches. Then a meeting with the parents and the expected… Read More
2017-12-11 16:35
I was with the kids of our school this evening. I had given them the task of creating a Christmas card. They love doing things with their hands. It's 6 in the evening and it's already dark i… Read More
2017-11-30 17:54
Entrevista en El Espejo COPEDesde Bangladesh, el Hermano Eugenio Sanz, @Uwavutse, habla para @cope_es con motivo de la visita del Papa Francisco @Pontifex_es. Un lujo poder escucharlo. https… Read More
2017-11-29 10:11
Proshanto came to this world before time, after only seven months of pregnancy. A few days later he caught an infection and it looked like the child would also leave this world too soon. We… Read More
2017-11-28 17:05
2017-11-14 13:00
People live in this house. A single room, tin shed walls with holes everywhere, beds without mattresses serving as seats as well, wood stove at the corner, bamboo branches serve as shelves f… Read More
2017-11-06 12:57
Look at the right hand of the child in the photo. You'll have to zoom in maybe. He has three coins. The boy and the lady next to him are beggars. For a while they have been asking me to give… Read More
2017-11-03 07:59
When in the morning Sheik leaves home with his backpack, his grandparents believe that he comes to school; but most of the days he does not arrive here. His father disappeared from home one… Read More
2017-10-14 16:37
He chose our corner to be the center of the Marist world for a day. And it was not any day, it was the day Marist Brothers celebrated 200 years of life and when we set a new beginning. Someh… Read More
2017-09-17 14:21
Don’t be mistaken when looking at this photo. It seems that I am helping a child to cross a bridge made of logs, one of those you are a bit afraid to cross. But if you pay attention yo… Read More
2017-09-10 16:42
Where do you live? That’s a question that I have to answer almost every day when I go out. People in Bangladesh love having a stranger like me speaking, or rather, pattering their prec… Read More
2017-09-05 03:07
Robin has been late for school today. In normal conditions it would take him half an hour to walk along paths and crossing a river with no bridge that sometimes carries water at the height o… Read More
2017-08-21 15:23
[Today I will not mention any name] He has come like Nicodemus, at night. To tell me that his son is very bad, that he has had a terrible accident. He lives a few meters from our house. The… Read More
2017-08-17 03:33
When you have been living for years in the midst of iniquitous, unjust and absurd situations, you risk to become accustomed, to accept them as normal, to let the evil expression "what can be… Read More
2017-08-09 16:57
Ten o'clock at night. Everything is quiet. The school children are already sleeping. I'm about to go to bed. And suddenly someone knocks on my door. "Bad business," I say to myself. When som… Read More
2017-07-19 15:28
I was engaged in an interesting conversation with the people of the neighboring tea plantation. We were in one of the stores discussing our nutrition program for children under 5, the proble… Read More
2017-07-07 12:50
Many say simple when they mean easy. And complicated when they mean difficult. Nothing simpler than a mathematical equation; a paper and a pencil is all that is needed to solve it, it is ind… Read More
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