A Journey of Growing with Knowledge, Empathy and Care.
In my childhood days, I was always frightened of talking with someone in English, especially with a foreigner. Fortunately, I had a teacher who changed all my stigma related to it. During the WLL & Empatico fellowship journey, I noticed that my students were also quite frightened of international students. They felt somehow inferior that they were not all equal, and had a mindset that as the foreign students speak better English than they do, they are more learned. Most of the Bangladeshi parents and people are habituated to create an atmosphere of inferiority with the prejudice speaking better English means higher intelligence. I faced this as my first challenge of my fellowship journey to eradicate inequality among the students to attain all the sustainable global goals successfully. Before the first video exchange, the students shared their concerns that helped me and my partner to design the video exchange session together. We had an off-class discussion where the student...