21 Oct
Empowerment

Women in the Host Community Receive New Opportunities through Training

In partnership with ALIGHT, a US-based nonprofit organization, OBAT has launched a sewing program for women belonging to the host community. Eight women from the Rajapalong host community in Cox’s Bazar (near the site for our Rohingya Women’s Empowerment program in Kutupalong camp) will participate in a four-month long sewing training program. This training will enable these women to supplement their family’s...

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18 Oct
News and Updates

OBAT Celebrates an Exciting October!

October offers lots of opportunities to appreciate, educate, and give back with so many days of recognition to observe. Our OBAT staff and students didn’t miss a beat! Here are just a few of the activities that were organized in the camps: International Day Of Older Persons A day of recognition and appreciation for the older people in our lives, OBAT’s Think...

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15 Oct
Health

Celebrating Global Hand Washing Day

Today we have celebrated the global handwashing day in our Learning centers and Community Center with the Caregiver of students and student. The program was inaugurated by Block Mazhi of the camps and our side. We have celebrated the global handwashing day in two venues. First we have started at 10:30 am with 20 caregivers in community Center. Secondly, we have started...

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05 Oct
Health

OBAT Donates Hospital Beds to Fight COVID

Hope Clinic Isolation Center was gifted 20 hospital beds by OBAT in our efforts to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the Rohingya Refugee camps. The isolation center, situated in the Kutupalong camp, which houses most of the 1.2M Rohingya Refugees, plays a pivotal role in fighting the spread of the disease. This donation will increase the clinic capacity by...

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09 Sep
Relief and family assistance

OBAT Celebrates Baby Safety Month by Distributing Infant Care Kits

September is Baby Safety Month. OBAT celebrated the month by distributing 25 sets of baby kits to 25 FDMN (Forcefully Displaced Myanmar National) mothers of 0-5-month old babies. Each set comprised of a bamboo cot, cushion with pillows, katha (a local handmade blanket), mosquito net, feeder and a plastic bucket. All sewing items were created by Rohingya women who have...

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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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