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Bangladesh

place · in 16 videos (2008–2012)

Mentions by year: 2008: 7 · 2009: 4 · 2010: 3 · 2011: 1 · 2012: 1

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What the videos say

2008

  • 2008-04-08 · Nerdfighting in Bangladesh — A Nerdfighter named Sean left graduate school at Notre Dame for Bangladesh; his project Uncultured films poverty there and uses his Xbox 360 savings to help kids go to school. (00:01:51)
  • 2008-04-08 · Nerdfighting in Bangladesh — John says it costs less than five dollars for a child in Bangladesh to go to school for six months, yet children drop out every day for lack of money. (00:01:51)
  • 2008-04-08 · Nerdfighting in Bangladesh — Because Sean's Xbox 360 money will only go so far, John proposes that Nerdfighters help Sean help people in Bangladesh, via the link in the sidebar. (00:02:20)
  • 2008-04-08 · Nerdfighting in Bangladesh — The children Sean works with may not know in-your-pants jokes, speak English or have fast internet, but they are still part of us. (00:02:20)
  • 2008-04-14 · PAPER TOWNS-TACULAR — John thanks the hundreds of Nerdfighters on six continents who have given money to Sean in Bangladesh; they have raised more than $3,000. (00:00:00)
  • 2008-05-19 · Three Things — John shows what Nerdfighter Sean did with the Xbox money Hank sent him: in a very rural part of Bangladesh where few NGOs work, it will help a family keep their kids in school. (00:01:05)
  • 2008-05-19 · Three Things — John calls it sort of miraculous that Hank can see the actual people his money helps, and says all who donated to Sean will experience that as he distributes more of the funds. (00:01:42)
  • 2008-09-11 · A Video about Videos — John reports that months ago Nerdfighters sent Sean money to help people in Bangladesh; Sean has used much of it and wants to spend the rest with Save the Children. (00:00:00)
  • 2008-10-25 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — In solidarity with Hank's punishment and in gratitude, John asks Nerdfighteria what he can do for them, offering examples, and asks for answers in comments. (00:01:50)
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — John says they will collect money for Save the Children Bangladesh throughout the entire tour. (00:01:11)
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — In Plano they met Sean, the man from Bangladesh who has been working with Save the Children to decrease worldsuck with Nerdfighters' money. (00:01:11)
  • 2008-11-27 · Thanksgiving in Asheville — John says it is weird what can become normal: talking to his brother by video blog before thousands, crowds singing Hank's songs, caring for people in Bangladesh like family, being a nerdfighter. (00:00:00)

2009

  • 2009-03-08 · PEEPS for Bangladesh — John says an army mutiny in Bangladesh, incompetent but deadly, killed many people and endangered the fragile government. (00:00:41)
  • 2009-03-08 · PEEPS for Bangladesh — John confesses he worried more about the Bozeman explosion than the situation in Bangladesh, and argues that intimacy leads to empathy. (00:01:15)
  • 2009-03-08 · PEEPS for Bangladesh — John says nerdfighters have raised thousands of dollars, now being spent to rebuild schools and build water filtration systems in rural Bangladesh. (00:01:15)
  • 2009-03-08 · PEEPS for Bangladesh — John says he has work to do on his 'caveman brain' about people he doesn't physically know (sentence cut off), and suggests maybe using people you know to connect you to strangers, like poor people in Bangladesh. (00:01:15)
  • 2009-07-13 · On Iran, Islam, and Amazingly Stupid Comments — John says Nerdfighters have a guy in Bangladesh, Sean, who pwns poverty with their money, and that Sean has an amazing new video about his work there. (00:00:00)
  • 2009-07-13 · On Iran, Islam, and Amazingly Stupid Comments — John notes that the Iranian protesters, those fighting them, the Bangladesh work and Bangladesh's corrupt government are all inspired by Islam. (00:02:26)

2010

  • 2010-01-15 · Introduction to Chemistry with Hank — Hank says Nerdfighter Shawn Ahmed, doing amazing work in Bangladesh, is one of five finalists to possibly attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, and asks everyone to vote for him via the sidebar. (00:02:55)
  • 2010-10-27 · You Are Awesome — John says Sean from the Uncultured Project is now in Bangladesh, working with Save the Children to help 10,000 kids in a project funded by Nerdfighteria. (00:00:01)
  • 2010-10-27 · You Are Awesome — John thanks Nerdfighteria for all it does to decrease world suck, from their own communities to Bangladesh, and for being awesome. (00:02:47)
  • 2010-12-17 · PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2010: Save the Children and Partners in Health — As evidence John cites Nerdfighteria's work with Save the Children and Shawn's Uncultured Project on a pond sand filter in Bangladesh that still provides clean water after two years. (00:01:34)

2011

  • 2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — Feeling his pee-joke book was outclassed, John remembered that Nerdfighters had helped rebuild a school in cyclone-ravaged Bangladesh and wanted to tell Mortenson. (00:01:03)
  • 2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — At the cocktail party John told the man he took for Mortenson about Nerdfighters' pond sand filters, Kiva loans and the school, talking for twelve minutes without letting him speak. (00:01:33)

2012