Charity bargains

Many foreigners in Bangladesh work in diplomacy, international organizations or multinational companies.
Efforts are made for social justice, gender equality, helping the weakest in Bangladesh.
Garment industry was, and still is, one of the sectors with a huge potential for improvement.

Therefore, for a newcomer it was slightly shocking to see a large bunch of the foreign corps diving in mountains of H&M clothing at a sales occasion on a Friday morning. (Friday is a day off here)

I was advised by the more experienced shoppers to come early because the fight for t-shirts, shorts, pants and underwear was not exactly diplomatic in the hight of the two hours session.

No moralizing here.

I was one of the first in line and secured six items for  about 11 euros. All items cost 150 taka each which equals round 1,7 euros.

 The more experienced H&M sharks told that there was no need to panic if the catch this time was modest - a new sale of samples is just a some weeks away.
And in between there are other sales. Last weekend was kind of a warm-up with Ahlens sale, only one middle high mountain of clothing.

To make the retail therapy more palatable, the sales revenue go to charity.
But don't worry: I will not drown family and friends with second-rate clothes as gifts.