A photo essay from the News International magazine.

An innovative foundation is providing rural youth in Bangladesh with the chance to learn computer skills—and a lot more.

It is 6 am in Barigaon Village in Bangladesh, and Halima Begum is opening her shop. Her first customer is waiting—not to buy goods, but to use her telephone. The telephone is a second business, augmenting her family's income by 1,000–1,500 taka (US$20–30) per month.

Bangladesh is a beautiful country of rivers, farms and tropical forests. Home to 130 million people, it counts more than 60,000 villages, a few sizable cities and one chaotic mega city, Dhaka. Bangladeshis have been blessed with some of the world’s most fertile land. However, Bangladeshis have not been blessed with one of the world’s more efficient governments.

Audrey Hepburn joins children outside a school in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. During her 1989 visit to Bangladesh, she toured UNICEF-supported immunization, water and sanitation, and formal and non-formal education projects.