TTC Global

TTC in Bangladesh:
ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN

The Asian University for Women, founded in 2008, is a scholarship-based setting in Bangladesh for young women whose higher educations have been severely restricted in their home countries. Currently, AUW houses and educates more than 1100 women from 17 countries, including Afghanistan, Bhutan, East Timor, Myanmar, Senegal, Syria and Yemen. Many of these young women come from worlds of trauma, with loss, pain and violence hard for us to imagine. Recently, AUW helped move 171 women out of Afghanistan to Bangladesh.

AUW founder, Kamal Ahmad reached out to Maine psychiatrist Anne Hallward to organize a lecture series for students featuring national experts in trauma, resilience, therapeutic arts and emotional empowerment. The lectures offer culturally sensitive mental health tools and will be available as a free resource at the Asian University for Women’s Youtube channel.

The Things They Carry Project is proud to join this empowering effort, offering six-week writing workshops to gently explore writing as a therapeutic tool, helping to make sense of the change and disruption they’ve experienced, and offering hope and possibilities for a future.