Tanzila Zaman, a community mentor, and writer of a book, ‘Mother Tongue’, shares her experience of the pandemic. EARLY LIFE Tanzila Zaman was born in Barisal, Bangladesh. Most of her life, prior to coming to the UK just over 10 years ago, she lived, studied and worked in Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh. Her mother was always busy and cooking, cleaning and maintaining their home. Tanzila enjoyed her time in school. In Dhaka she studied at the best institutions and later she worked for a corporation. Her passion to excel in her career made her come to the UK. Her employer preferred her to get trained in Singapore. She chose London. BRITISH EXPERIENCE ‘Most of the things you study in Bangladesh is about memorising things. It is not practical at all. In London you are flexible. In Bangladesh there are restriction, and lots of memorising. I don’t like memorising.’ ‘When I came to London my life changed (dramatically)....
BritBanglaCovid is a platform that shares real-life experiences of British Bangladeshis prior to and during the pandemic. It shares their circumstances from their perspective for public benefit and tries to bring about positive health outcomes for the benefit of this and other minority communities through shared experience. BritBanglaCovid is also a forum through which minority community representatives discuss issues that affect them in times of health crisis.