Yearly Archives: 2012

Over 1000 books and some canned food for Sense Charter School! OBAT's desire to create a difference in the local Indianapolis community led it to partner with Second Helpings and Sense Charter School. For Giving Tuesday, we aspired to collect enough books to help Sense Charter School start a library for the kids studying there. Most of the kids at the school...

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Giving Tuesday is finally here! Today, you can still feel the rush that comes from retail therapy and share your good fortune with others at the same time. Shop at http://voucherry.com/ and earn credits for yourself that you can use to shop more! "Shop on Groupon, Walgreens, Disney and thousands of partners to earn rewards for you and your favorite charity or...

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H2O is truly supplying the nourishment that is feeding and strengthening OBAT. Help to OBAT or H2O is a group of young professionals who volunteer their time and talents to ensure that OBAT is successfully meeting its objectives. Their help in pulling off great events, representing OBAT where needed and just being there, keen to offer assistance, has been indispensable. Kudos...

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Rahena Begum is the head teacher/principal of OBAT’s Sardar Bahadur Nagar School.The  school has 450 students enrolled in it; this is the highest number of students in all of the seven schools of OBAT. Rahena Begum has worked as a teacher for the NGO, Concern Worldwide for 20 years. Now, some of the students she taught are serving as teachers...

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Twenty one year old Zafar Ali studies at the Victoria University of Bangladesh in the B.B.A department. He is also a volunteer for OBAT Helpers and teaches the destitute students who live in different slums or camps.  Zafar’s parents were able to get him through high school where his diligence got him stellar grades. Zafar feels that without his parents’...

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Humayun is from the city of Khalispur in Khulna. He is the Head Teacher of OBAT Primary school as well as the project officer for Khulna. Humayun also works as the secretary of SPGRC (Stranded Pakistanis General Repatriation Committee), Khalispur branch and the secretary of Khalispur Non Local Relief committee. We are very thankful to him for his support and for...

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Sohail Akhter Khan lives in Chittagong, Bangladesh and is the Program Manager for OBAT. Prior to working with OBAT, Sohail had worked with Concern Worldwide, an international charity for 22 years. His core area of focus was always, Education though he is also experienced in Disaster Management. He has also worked with UNICEF and various other Government programs and received training...

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The Spirit and Place festival was accepting blog entries centered around the theme "play." Here's the link to our entry : http://spiritandplace.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/just-play-with-or-without/  

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Born in Geneva Camp, Dhaka, Shahzada Hussain is twenty two years old. He is the eldest in a family of three boys. His father, a rickshaw driver struggles to make ends meet for his family. Educating their three children is daily struggle for his parents who were able to get Shahzada through elementary school. Shahzada worked hard and his will...

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Thank you, Mohammad Wasim Khan, for being a valued OBAT student. Wasim’s father sells ice cream to support his family. His earnings, though, are not sufficient to feed the family three times a day. The family of eight lives in a squalid camp at Rangpur. To improve the wretched living conditions of his family, Wasim started studying at the OBAT tutoring...

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