Stories
Stories from the work
These are short accounts from the families, students, teachers, and volunteers of DKWFB. Each opens on its own page. Names, ages, and dates in this first set are drafts — they will be replaced with verified details as written consent is recorded with each contributor.
Photographs shown alongside each story are placeholders until a consented image is available.
Alor Path School
She came home that day and read the road sign aloud.
Rumana joined Pre-Primary in 2024. By April 2026 she was reading the medical-centre sign at the corner of the lane to her mother, who had walked past it perhaps two thousand times.
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Alor Path School
The teacher asked him to read the question twice.
Imran joined Class 1 in 2022. Three years later, in a weekly assessment that was not in the curriculum, he read a four-step word problem aloud — slowly, for the rest of the class.
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Teach the Qur'an
She had wanted to read it herself for fifty years.
Halima Begum had prayed five times a day for fifty years and had never read a page of the Qur'an herself. In January 2025 she joined the adult recitation class at Mirpur with her glasses and a borrowed Mushaf.
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Teach the Qur'an
He paused on a verse he had recited a thousand times.
Steady, not spectacular. In a morning revision class in March 2026, Tanvir paused mid-verse and asked his Hafiz what it meant. The class stopped for twenty minutes.
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Qurbani
Three families. One table. One Eid.
For most of the children's lives, the Khan family had not eaten beef on Eid-ul-Adha. In June 2025, two volunteers from DKWFB arrived at the door with sectioned, weighed parcels.
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Qurbani
We give our Qurbani at home and through DKWFB.
Three generations under one roof in Bradford. In 2018 the Faruk family was looking for a route they could trace. They have given Qurbani through DKWFB every year since.
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Flood Donation
The water came in at four in the morning.
Late August 2024, a Tuesday in Sirajganj. By Thursday the water was at the second-floor window. The DKWFB field team reached the cousin's house that afternoon in a borrowed flat-bottomed boat.
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Flood Donation
He took the boat out at dawn for nine days.
Class 3 teacher at Alor Path during term time. In August 2024, on a bus to Sirajganj the morning after the call came. Four runs each day for nine days.
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