Press Release

Date: 8 September, 2018

Press release!

Dear Prof. Dr. Muhit sir and Asso. Prof. Dr. Gulam sir,

Please accept my Greeting (Salamwalukhum), Namaskar

Firstly, I would like to introduce myself. I Ashok Pandey coming from Nepal as the FK participants for one year in CSF Global, Banani Dhaka. I was coming here on October 22, 2017, and I am going to be leaving Bangladesh before October 14, 2018. I never know anybody before coming here. I know Mr. Jewel (supervisor of FK Norway project) and Mr. Ansar (Finance officer) in the CSF Global office. I meet with Prof. Muhit in the workshop in Sonargaon hotel during lunchtime on December 2017. He may be forgotten, but with his smiling face, he welcomed me and give the best wishes. Before that date, I met with Asso. Prof. Dr. Gulam at the University of South Asia during a workshop for MPH students. Again, I meet and talk with him before one month in Skype.

During the tenure, I try many times to contact them. I asked my colleagues for making me a contact. They just advise me to talk with Mr. Jewel and Mr. Ansar. During the Skype talk with Asso Prof. Dr. Gulam, I came to know he is the executive director of CSF Global and he was not aware of our smoking-related project. During drafting the proposal, I request Mr. Jewel to talk with you both many times. I was scared after Asso. Prof Dr. Gulam said he was not aware of it. Please trust me, if they entertain my call and message I never ignore them for sending the message or giving the call any time. I always follow the chain of command for reporting the issues which I learned in my schooling.

Now, I would like to share something about my hard work for the direct benefit of CSF Global. I was writing the tobacco proposal and it is accepted for funding. Now, we are working on it. I was also bidding another proposal in May 2018, they promise to contact us very soon with a positive result. I also make the relationship with another organization, they will work with us in the next round in November or December 2018. (Please see the details in Table 1)

I don’t know, I am doing good or bad, but I was satisfied with CSF Global before getting the tobacco-related fund. Now, I am facing hassles and difficulty in implementing this research. I am being ill and sick. The donor is willing to work with us in the next round also.  I don't know what is the wrong is going with me. If I did any mistake, please tell me, I will correct the mistake without any negotiation. I am describing this issue from my heart. Now, I am in the most difficult phase in my life by doing good work, hard work with being polite, punctual and respecting to all. Now, I am feeling insecure and unsafe by the person's behavior. 

I request for the pleasant environment for working and respect the feeling of foreign participants in their home country and organization. I like to be transparent and don't like to be controversial anymore. I would like to make the strong bonding with CSF Global in my future. I will pray for CSF Global for the upliftment. Till date, except my FK Norway, mentioned allowances, I never took any Taka, handy cash and other materials from CSF Global except 1 pen. I am not taking any transportation cost, communication cost and daily allowances on the events also. Simultaneously, I am working in the FK Norway, according to the plan and Gantt chart without segregating the fun and entertaining time for exploring Dhaka and Bangladesh. I completed almost all of the outcomes as mentioned in the agreement. Except, FK Norway project, I did the following tasks as mentioned below.
Table 1: Activities

Date	Task	Updates
22 October 2017	Date of joining CSF
Oct- Nov 2017	Meeting with supervisor (Jewel) regarding the NCDs, ethical approval process, etc.
November 15 2017	Give consent for proposal bidding, manuscript writing, etc.
Dec 02 2017	I wrote the proposal on tobacco for the Canadian donor	Not able to bid
Dec 15, 2017	LOI sent to FSFW
Jan 02, 2018	Accepted my LOI and invite for consultative meeting in the USA
April 10, 2018	Finalised the proposal and sent to FSFW
July 22, 2018	Accepted the proposal
During the same time
2 concept note for US based donor on the issues of Rohinga and Fistula (They are willing to work with us)		Almost in the stage of MoU signing
Eye related issues with SEE international		Willing to work with us
Disability related issues with Japanese donor		No more interested
Center for substance Abuse Research Glasgow, UK It is on the stage of agreement signing for proposal bidding (about 100 thousand Taka)		Stage of MoU

Ashok Pandey

Nepal