Bangladesh

Our CEO of Legacy WM Aftab Rahman was interviewed by BBC Midlands today talking all things Freedom50 and his latest trip to Bangladesh where a 400km charity bike ride took place for 5 days, raising funds to build an eco-school. The school in Bangladesh will be built in partnership with Sircer Pasha Welfare Trust. Part of the funds raised will also be used by Human Appeal to support their Dhaka Street Children Project. 

If you would like to help and support, all donations are welcome. 

50 years on since Bangladesh has become a sovereign nation and we, British Bangladeshi, have had a footprint in the UK that stretches back four centuries. It started with the expansion of the East India Company in Calcutta in the 17th-century, with merchant seamen known as ‘Laskars’. They were recruited to serve the ships and on occasions, they would jump ship in one of Britain's ports. There were also ‘ayas’ – servants and cooks brought back by returning employees of the East India Company, however, this was in very small numbers and there is little account of their presence in the UK.