Before that it had been pandemonium. The presenter from Delhi had to turn round and go home after flying as far as Kolkata. Others (from Pakistan and Nepal) were urgently called not to start their journeys. Richard Boyum had been warned of the situation by the US Embassy so did not venture on to the plane. Poor George Pickering from Britain spent a single day and night cooped up in the curfew in a hotel in Dhaka before taking the first flight back home.

In the meantime, BELTA members rallied round and organised an impromptu programme that attracted about 90 ELT people for 2 full days of workshops and demos on the 25th & 26th of August at Presidency University !

BELTA then went on to hold its previously scheduled 2-day TT programme at the National Academy of Educational Management on the 27th and 28th of August. (See below: August 27-28 Third Intensive Teacher Training Programme For secondary school teachers link to Visiting ELT specialists through the Teachers Helping Teachers project).

So it was a very busy 5 days for BELTA, in spite of the enormous setback it had suffered. And to organize all this, members had to work hard round the clock behind the scenes.