08 Sep
Empowerment

Camp Women Sew Masks & Serve the Community

The students at OBAT’s Chittagong Sewing Center stitched 2,000 masks for the patients visiting our Rohingya Medical Clinic. The impressive effort was funded directly by our generous donors and it’s benefits were two-fold. Not only were our clinic patients provided much-needed masks to help curtail the spread of COVID-19 in the Rohingya camps, but by training the students  to sew...

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07 Sep
Relief and family assistance

OBAT & Amal Foundation Bring Relief to Flood-Affected Families

Families devastated by flooding in Susua Chor village in Tangail received generous food packages through the joint efforts of OBAT and the Amal Foundation. The distribution, carried out by volunteers from our OBAT Think Tank, Dhaka Team, Amal Foundation, and the young volunteers of Susua Village, was able to provide much-needed support to 400 affected families across the region. We...

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06 Sep
Health

Japanese Biotech Giant Helps Camp Children Fight Malnutrition

Long time supporter of OBAT, Euglena, a Japanese biotech giant, is helping camp children fight malnutrition by providing nutrition-rich biscuits through its GENKI program. Inspired by a visit to Bangladesh camps as a student, Euglena president, Mitsuru Izumo, founded the company and established the GENKI program to help solve the issue of hunger in camp communities. The biscuits were distributed...

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05 Sep
Education

Digital Technology Helps Preschoolers Learn through the Pandemic

OBAT, in collaboration with Teach the World Foundation, is helping camp preschoolers continue to receive a quality education through smartphone apps and in-home support, in spite of school closures across the country. TTWF provided training to all OBAT preschool staff in Bangladesh to utilize innovative digital programs. After the training, our preschool teachers visited the students and showed the parents...

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04 Sep
Rohingya relief

ALIGHT Brings Growth & Opportunity with a New Multipurpose Center

A new Multipurpose Center has just been inaugurated by the Camp-in-Charge in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazaar! This Multipurpose Center is part of a 5-month long project, funded by ALIGHT that will help build the capacity of the Host community & Rohingya women and children who have been affected by COVID-19. The new Center will host sewing training classes for 40 women,...

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03 Sep
Education

IT Workshop Creates Opportunities for Camp Residents

OBAT partnered with the Ayaz Waris Khan Warsi (AWKW) Foundation to offer a 3-hour IT workshop to 60 students, staff and teachers from OBAT Rangpur’s office, computer labs, Think Tank, and educational centers. The workshop covered digital marketing, freelancing, graphics design and web development. This innovative program strives to create skilled manpower in the IT sector, empowering individuals and contributing to...

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24 Aug
Education

New Computer Training Center at Bogra!

Bogra Camp is one of the most poverty-stricken camps in Bangladesh. Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Aftab Iqbal, OBAT has been operating a tutoring center and preschool in Bogra, and has also carried out construction projects of sanitation facilities. Recently, Mr. Iqbal initiated a new project to train the youth in Bogra Camp in computer skills. The students are...

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16 Aug
Education

Tutoring Centers Conduct Online Classes

Since the shutdown of the educational Institutions in Bangladesh due to the pandemic, OBAT has been working diligently to keep its students engaged in their coursework. Online classes began on June 28th for OBAT’s Tutoring Centers’ students. Almost 200 students participate in online learning every day. These students are candidates for the JSC (Junior School Certificate) and SSC (Secondary School...

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