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VCU medical student finds mission in Bangladesh

16.06.10

It is not uncommon that Richard Hubbard, who just finished her first year of medical school, is summering in Bangladesh on a mission to help those in need.

Many medical students, and college and secondary students spend their vacations doing good works somewhere. What is unusual is that Hubbard, who is from Ashland and is a student at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, summers in Bangladesh every year, and at 23 he is the founder and president of a nonprofit organization charitable in this nation of Southeast Asia.

Basic Needs Inc.provides housing, clothing, food and employment support for poor families and orphans in the capital Dhaka, and he built a school for children in a remote village.

"One thing I hate is when people say, 'Oh, that's a great thing you do," Hubbard said in an interview before his departure for Bangladesh last week. "I do not see it like that at all. I see it more as something that I have no choice about. I reacted to a situation that has been on my knees. Otherwise, how would I react?

Source: Richmond Times Dispatch