The Acid Survivors Foundation
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In 1999 a charity was founded in Bangladesh that was dedicated to treating and rehabilitating the survivors of acid violence. The majority of the attacks were against young women, the acid was usually thrown at their faces causing life-altering disfigurement and long-term psychological issues. Farhana Haider has been speaking to Monira Rahman who help set up the charity.
Photo: Monira Rahman with survivors of acid attacks 2011 . Credit Monira Rahman)
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| 0:36.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.9 | My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned |
| 0:43.0 | podcast for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:45.0 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality, |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 1:00.9 | poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, Cricket, and Conspiracy Theories. |
| 1:04.3 | And that's just a few examples. |
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| 1:09.4 | find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading this edition of the Witness History Podcast with me for Hana Hiver and today I'm taking you back to May |
| 1:26.8 | 1999 to Bangladesh and the founding of the Acid Survivors Foundation, or ASF. |
| 1:34.0 | The first organisation in the world dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of Acid Attack Survivors. |
| 1:42.0 | I've been speaking to Monero Rahman who helped set up the charity. |
| 1:47.0 | For me it was a mission. I was shocked. I was horrified. I couldn't understand how a human being can do that to other human being. |
| 1:57.0 | In the 1990s, acid attacks were on the rise in Bangladesh, a conservative patriarchal society where many crimes against women went unreported |
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