It's all part of Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh, an ELCA funded health care and development project. Southern Bangladesh is a land of rivers. In fact, there isn't much land. It's mostly rivers. Villages are often cut off from larger cities by flooding.
Life is traditional.
Men work in the rice fields or operate small businesses. When not in the fields women stay close to the homestead, cooking, collecting fire wood and caring for children. Many women never venture outside the village. Marriages are arranged. Girls are wed from the age of 13.