Writing pad of recyled jute - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 75940 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 33.01 TILIACEAE Corchorus sp | Entry Book Number | 21.1999 | |
| Artefact Name | Writing pad of recyled jute | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Bangladesh | TDWG Region | Bangladesh | ||
| Parts Held | Writing pad of recyled jute | Geography Description | Bangladesh, Asia-Tropical, India, Sreepur | ||
| Uses | Writing pad of recyled juteUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Davies J | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/02/1998 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | This notebook was made by children at the Sreepur Children's village in Bangladesh using re-cyced jute waste. They also produce Christmas and birthday cards and envelopes from waste. The village is the creation of a former British Airways stewardess, Pa, t Kerr, who became aware of the plight of orphans in the capital, Khaka, during stopovers. At that time, in the early nineteen eighties, they were housed in a crumbling tenement block without proper sanitation which had been condemned. With the blessing, of Lord King, then the airline's chairman, she set up a charity to help and raised nearly 700,000 pounds sterling in 6 years to establish the new site at rural Sreepur, 40 miles north of Dhaka. It has now been in operation for nine years and has expanded, to include a school and workshops where the children are taught many skills including carpentry and papermaking. More than 600 children are currently living there and some of the earlier residents have gone on to become airline employees, beauticians an, d soldiers. The emphasis in the craft shops, however, is very much on traditional Bangladeshi skills using materials like jute and wood from jackfruit and carob trees which abound. The women who are the children's 'Ayahs' or surrogate mothers are also ta, ught these skills. Money raised from the sale of furniture and paper products also helps towards the upkeep of the children's village. Donated by Jim Davies, 13 Julius Court, Brentwood Dock, Middlesex, TW9 8QY (26/02/1998), a freelance journalist who, w, hen working for the Daily Express, covered the project for an article and in January,1998, revisited Bangladesh for the marriage of Pat Kerr. | ||||