Eight years ago, volunteers from Mid-Main Community Health Centre in Vancouver started their collaboration with the College of Nursing at IUBAT. In February 2004, the Registrar of the Bangladesh Nursing Council (RN Hosne Ara Begum) inaugurated the nursing program as part of a function held at the IUBAT campus with a large number of senior members of the BNC present. This photo from that occasion shows IUBAT Vice-Chancellor, Dr. M. Alimullah Miyan (centre), National Professor Dr. M. R. Khan, as well as Bangladesh Health Project Director, RN Alex Berland. Eight years later we can claim 22 graduates who have been praised by national and international nurses and doctors for their excellent practice!