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“OBAT Helpers is the reason I am proud to be a Hoosier,” these were the words Professor John Clark, a visiting professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs used to introduce OBAT at the Humanitarian Speed Dating event held by the SPEA program of Indiana University on Jan 25th, at the Athenaeum. Professor Clark, who has been hailed as “the foremost public intellectual in Indiana,” by the Indianapolis Star, brought 15 nonprofits together under the roof of the German-American...

OBAT will be at the Athenaeum this Wednesday, join the fun event with your friends! http://spea.provocate.org/ January 25: Humanitarian speed dating at the Athenaeum Fifteen of Indy’s most creative social entrepreneurs will tell you what they are doing, why it’s important, and how you can be part of their efforts to change the world … in four minutes each. Then take time to get to know to these exceptional people … you’ll discover that your neighbors who have set up amazing...

Recently, ProTrans International, a Supply Chain Management company based in Indianapolis, allowed its employees to wear denim to work for one week in exchange for a small donation benefitting OBAT Helpers. This organization’s act of giving was carried out with a twist, allowing its employees to have some relaxed, worry and iron free days of wearing denim to work. Protrans raised over $700 for OBAT with this creative idea! It would be wonderful if our supporters out there could get similar...

 Forty years pass in a blink of an eye, in retrospect. In reality, a lot can transpire in this time frame: wars are lost and won; countries form or perish; revolutions ferment and inventions are actualized. In a parallel universe though, life can take a different course. For the Bihairs stranded in the camps of Bangladesh, time has stood still since four decades ago and little has happened to put their lives on an upward trajectory. The 16th of December...

OBAT Helpers & SalaamCorp invite you to Race4Rehma  November 13th, 2011 Downtown at the North end of the Indianapolis Canal (Close to the intersection of 11th St. and Martin Luther King Jr. St. and by Creations Café) 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Register now to walk as an individual OR a team member through our EventBrite page! http://race4rehma.eventbrite.com   This year’s Race4Rehma will be the first annual walk-a-thon hosted by SalaamCorp youth group to benefit Obat Helpers’ Rehma Initiative.   Walk with us to increase opportunities for self-empowerment through education, healthcare...

OBAT Helpers & SalaamCorp invite you to Race4Rehma  November 13th, 2011 Downtown at the North end of the Indianapolis Canal (Close to the intersection of 11th St. and Martin Luther King Jr. St. and by Creations Café) 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.   This year’s Race4Rehma will be the first annual walk-a-thon hosted by SalaamCorp youth group to benefit Obat Helpers’ Rehma Initiative.   Walk with us to increase opportunities for self-empowerment through education, healthcare and micro-financing opportunities, both globally and locally!   Obat Helpers’ global movement assists the desolate, forgotten...

On September, 17th, OBAT spent an elegant evening with the rest of its Center for Interfaith Cooperation partners, III, MAI and BRIDGE, hosting a fundraiser at the Indiana Interchurch Center. The objective was to raise funds which the partnering organizations could use for their collective administrative expenses. OBAT’s secretary and the Director of the International Interfaith Initiative, Charlie Wiles was the glue and force that brought the whole event together. The beautiful Krannert Hall with its multihued stained-glass windows was...

OBAT Helpers is pleased to announce a new initiative, “Rehma,” to help alleviate poverty and hunger in the United States.  The Rehma Initiative will seek to partner with existing hunger and poverty programs in the United States as well as establish a micro-lending program to help the unemployed.  Rehma is the Arabic word for compassion and is regularly featured in Muslim religious texts.   According to OBAT’s president, Anwar Khan, “OBAT Helpers has been able to create successful models in Bangladesh with...

Face to face with him, you would see a salt and pepper haired, extremely humble and soft-spoken man. His respectful demeanor and kind eyes tell a lot about the kind of person he is. But not enough about what all he has done or accomplished- single-handedly. This is a man who travelled 8000 miles to Bangladesh with $1800 in his pocket. His intention was to adopt a destitute family living in refugee camps -one family out of a population of 250,000...

Recently OBAT recruited a posse of youthful and energetic volunteers to accomplish its bulk mailing project. The eleven to six year old age group was able to get approximately 850 envelopes, stamped, labeled and stuffed. Prior to that, they carried out some serious folding of 800+ fliers and newsletters. Thank you, Sami, Bana, Malek, Teimour, Sarim and Imaan for spending so many precious hours from your summer break doing the aforementioned tasks instead of chilling out and playing on your various electronic devices. We couldn’t have...