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West High student helps give Bangladeshi kids bright smiles (opens in a new tab on Deseret News)

The Deseret News followed Sami Safiullah — now a BOSHAT director — on a trip to his family’s ancestral village in Bangladesh, where a student-run fundraising effort delivered backpacks, dental supplies, and mosquito nets to local schoolchildren.

The campaign raised more than $2,300 and distributed 300 backpacks, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and 170 mosquito nets to students in the villages around Shimarkanda Primary School. Seventeen years before BOSHAT was incorporated, the same approach was already in place: work through the school that is already there, buy what the community says it needs, and account for every dollar.