Updates to readers about new items and developments on www.quayasia.com
Tahmina joined Quay Asia in Dhaka as part of our start-up team.
She has academic background in economics and professional experience in sales and marketing.
And with that combination of skills Tahmina was just the right person to pioneer some of Quay Asia’s work in Bangladesh.
Welcome back Naila!
Naila first joined Quay Asia as our start-up manager for Bangladesh. She got our logistics and book-keeping into shape. And searched for office space.
Now Naila is back to head up our finances and administration. So we’re in safe hands!
Last week was Eid in Bangladesh.
So we won’t be writing our weekly round up of articles about employment, the labour market, skills training and workforce development this week.
The next round up will be for the week ending 14th July.
Eid Mubarak.
Avik was a key member of our start-up team. He came on board in March to develop the branding and marketing for our first micro-business, Aroyee.
Aroyee is a fine dining experience served in the comfort your own home. It’s an exciting fusion of Thai cuisine, exotic ingredients from Chittagong Hill Tracts with a fancy Western service.
Aroyee is a social business that trains people from disadvantaged backgrounds to become professional chefs. The business sources ingredients from Chittagong Hill Tracts and works with poor farmers to develop their commercial acumen.
Avik masterminded some of our promotional events including our tie up with Euro Kitchens. Euro Kitchens markets and sells luxury brands in Bangladesh.
Avik finished up this month. He left us with a set of brand guidelines and then rushed off to start his career in film-making.
Good luck Avik and thanks for all your hard work!
Aidan joined Quay Asia for a short-term assignment as part of our start-up team. He spent three months in Nairobi before arriving in Dhaka. Aidan heads back to his home in Toronto this month.
Aidan made an incredible contribution to our analysis of the labour market in Bangladesh. He designed Quay Asia’s monthly post series, “Issues in the Labour Market,” and went on to write the first three of twelve articles, which focused on the transitions between school and work.
“The Nation’s Children” was the second in our Fifty Series. Aidan talked to Mazharul Haque Mintu one of Bangladesh’s freedom fighters from the 1971 Liberation War. Recording Mintu’s memories of Bangabandu’s return to the newly liberated Bangladesh in 1972, Aidan made a video of Mintu’s vivid recollections.
Aidan diligently captured articles in the Bangladesh press about the labour market, workforce development and skills training every week in Quay Asia’s What the Papers Say series.
We’ll miss Aidan and wish him the best of luck in the next phase of his career.
We’ve been taking a break from publishing our “What the Papers Say” posts. But we’ll start them up again this month.
We’ll also be adding a number of other post series this year.
And we’ll let you know what’s coming soon.
Best wishes for 2016!
We won’t be writing our weekly round up of articles about employment, the labour market, skills training and workforce development this week. The next round up will be for the week ending 29th October.
It’s taken slightly more time than we anticipated. But as you can see our Web site is up and running.
In the end we decided to develop the site in house. It gave us an opportunity to get in touch with some of the latest thinking in social media. And that’s been useful for those of us that didn’t grow up with smart phones, tablets and social media apps.
So for some words of thanks.
We appreciate Morten Rand-Hendriksen and his video lessons on Web site design at Lynda.com.
Thanks also to Bigstock for many of the images we’ve used on the site.
And of course thanks to the WordPress Project.
We’ll be adding more material and features to keep things current. And of course we’d like to interact with you through the site.
While we work on our Website we’ll post articles that might interest you.