Matthew D. Kaye, PhD
As the Director of the Office of Volunteer Programs and Service Learning, it is my responsibility to prioritize community engagement at Sacred Heart University (SHU). Community engagement is an excellent means for SHU students to contribute to a community in need, achieve a better understanding of social justice, and, develop their skill set within their major. It has been a pleasure to work with Distressed Children International to further this.
Over the past three year partnership, we have been able to collaborate in supporting DCI’s mission of assisting children who don’t have access to healthcare and education. My student team had the opportunity to work hand in hand with their teams at their facility in Dhaka, as well as in the remote village, Patuakhali, in Bangladesh.
DCI’s volunteer coordination provide SHU students with a unique, well organized opportunity that directly impacted the children DCI supports. Their dedicated staff in Bangladesh is extraordinary supportive and well suited to bridge cultural and linguistic differences. My students not only had the opportunity to volunteer, they had the chance to work directly with Bangladeshi community members. No doubt that this made a positive and lasting impression, as well as contributed to gaining a better understanding of social justice and international development.
I wish DCI all the success.
Matthew D. Kaye, PhD
Director, Office of Volunteer Programs & Service Learning
Sacred Heart University (SHU) 
We are working mainly in the field of child care, preventive & curative. We have lot of achievements in this area. But working for distressed children within the community is a newer concept & appears to be working in a very positive way. We highly appreciate that DCI came forward in assisting us in our journey to reach a predictive goal. I wish your Conference success and hope it leads to positive outcomes for the distressed children of the globe.
–Prof. M R Khan
National Professor of Bangladesh
Director, Institute of Child Health and Shishu Sasthya Foundation Hospital, Bangladesh 
I am confident that the Conference will be able to create an awareness, increase consensus and foster mutual understanding among stakeholders at large on children’s rights in local, national, and international communities, on issues of poverty in the 21st century, and on providing a forum for discussing creative, community-driven methods for alleviating child labor, hunger, and poverty around the world. I am personally happy to publicly announce that Distressed Children and Infants (DCI) International is taking part in excellent endeavors for the development of distressed children and has undertaken some commendable projects in Bangladesh, specifically. I have had the opportunity of visiting some of the projects, and I was highly impressed by the thoughtfulness, caring and creativity of those programs implemented for the distressed section of our future generation.
I wish DCI a great success.
–Muhammad Abdul Mazid
Former Chairman, National Board of Revenue (NBR)
Ministry of Finance, Government of Bangladesh
Advisor, DCI Bangladesh 
I extend my warm greetings and felicitations to the organizers and participants of this year’s Conference on Child Rights & Sight at Yale University. It is critical to promote children’s education and safeguard child rights through more and more awareness. Focus, hard work, and a strong team are required to lower the dropout rate and impact underprivileged children with meaningful education. I am confident that the deliberation of this conference will accelerate the pace of activities in this field. I wish the conference all the success.
—Masud Chowdhury
Advisor, Distressed Children & Infants Intl.
Chairman/President Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce –USA 
Our trip to Shoula has been very successful. Thanks to the effort by the DCI team and their friends here in this village. Shoula is a long way from home but our visit reinforces the similarities between children and families all over the world. We look forward to a long relationship with the children of Shoula and helping them develop to their fullest potential. Thanks again for the wonderful hospitality and look forward to seeing everyone again in the winter & introducing my family to our sun child sponsor children.
–Matthew Nelson
Los Angeles, CA 
Islamia Eye Hospital, M A Ispahani Institute of Ophthalmology (IEH), and DCI have been working closely to mitigate the miseries of underprivileged children. IEH is a non-profit eye care service provider. DCI is doing a commendable job in helping children with eye diseases. Without its appropriate intervention, I am sure these children would have languished in poverty for the rest of their lives. I congratulate DCI in its wonderful service to the poverty stricken children of Bangladesh and hope it will further strengthen its capacity to provide more support to children with eye care needs. I wish DCI a great success.
–Zahida Ispahani
Adviser, Islamia Eye Hospital &
M A Ispahani Institute of Ophthalmology
Dhaka, Bangladesh 
DCI is working hard to make the global community aware of the cry of the many disadvantaged people of the world.
The Constitution of Bangladesh has called for taking special measures for the full realization of children’s rights, putting special attention on the most vulnerable children. Bangladesh has also ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1990. Despite making considerable progress in several areas, children in general in Bangladesh still continue to suffer multidimensional forms of deprivation, violence, abuse and exploitation. A large proportion of this child population is deprived of basic education, health care, an acceptable level of nutrition, a hygienic sanitation system, safe, clean drinking water, and physical safety and security. Although poverty is the root cause of vulnerability in most children, more important is the lack of commitment by society and individual states for ensuring the rights of the children. Mammoth and collective movement is required in order to improve and ensure a better future for the children, thereby creating a better world. The excellent work DCI is doing in Bangladesh is very much needed and we are glad to provide them logistical support. I wish DCI all the success. Today’s children are the future leaders of the world. Let us invest more in the children for better tomorrow.
–Mahmudul Kabir
Country Director,
Terre Des Hommes, Netherlands 
I put my hands together with DCI for all the distressed children of the world and join you to promote and establish the rights of all children of the world. The children are the future. If we care for them well they will continue our struggle for child rights.
I am glad to see that Distressed Children International has been committed in reaching out to the children who otherwise would remain invisible and thereby uncared for. It is our responsibility to bring them development activities because they are integral part of our society, regardless of financial status.
We can not afford to fail in establishing the rights of our children and reaching those who need us most. DCI is doing a commendable job and I thank the DCI team for serious dedication and effort.
–Dr. Abu Raihan, MD, MPH
Bangladesh Country Director ,
ORBIS International 