Last Sunday (Jan 15) Mrs. Waid and Bob headed down south with some of the newly arrived missionaries, the Philpots. Mrs. Waid went down to retrieve two babies, Bob went to visit the village schools, and the Philpots went to perform a VBS at the schools. Well on Wednesday we heard that they were bringing four babies back, the caregivers were getting their beds ready, bringing down new cribs and such. Then Thursday night we heard some bad news…They were being held by the police who thought they were child traffickers.
Apparently they had stopped to get the last baby at a village. Where ever the van stops, a crowd forms, because white people are a rare thing here. One of the school teachers brought the baby and it’s mother to the van where the baby was taken and money was given to the teacher for his transportation costs (he had brought them on a bus). The villagers that had crowded around saw a baby taken and money given, a van full of white people, and three other babies. This particular village had a police station nearby and so everyone was taken in and questioned. They were held there for awhile and couldn’t continue until all the guardians of the babies came and got their children. I guess the paperwork they had for the babies had not been filled out correctly, so they were not going to be allowed to bring the babies up here.
This story made the headlines here in Bangladesh. It was on all the news channels and it was in the newspapers. I think it was only in the Bangla additions, but I’m not sure, we were just told about the headlines, I didn’t actually see them.
I had really wanted to go down south, to see more of Bangladesh and to pick up babies, but maybe it is a very good thing that we didn’t go. It does not sound like it was a fun experience, but God watched out for them and He will watch out for those babies that weren’t able to come.
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