December 29th, 2016 Early in the morning, the team traveled to Ferozshah Primary School. We felt honored that the local counselor of Chittagong city corporation, Mr. Jasim, came to meet with us. We were glad because he gave his valuable time to discuss the progress of our school and gave some advice to the Headmaster of the school and to the Project Officer for the betterment of the school. We got the chance to spend time with the amazing...
28th December, 2016 Early in the morning, we attended a meeting in our office with “Japan Association of Drainage and Environment (JADE),” a Japan based non-profit organization. JADE is promoting public health improvement projects, combining reproductive health, nutrition and indoor air pollution projects in Bangladesh. Mr. Tofayel and his associate gave a presentation on awareness of their project and we are looking forward to collaboratively working with them. JADE and OBAT: We will work on a collaborative effort for creating...
December 27th, 2016 Conducted day two of the workshop on “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” (Timeless Leadership Principles to Improve the Impact and Influence with Others, written by John C. Maxwell, expert leadership teacher, consultant and author). We started the day by reviewing the laws that were covered on Day one. Attendants actively participated by giving examples and sharing their views related to the laws. We focused our attention on the remaining sixteen laws, discussing each law in depth,...
In the evening, we attended a meeting with OBAT Bangladesh. We discussed how we can expand our projects, project proposals and what activities will be performed in 2017. This strategic planning meeting also included confirming details and arrangements for the two-day training on Monday and Tuesday that OBAT is hosting for its youth leadership and staff. Conducted a workshop on “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” (Timeless Leadership Principles to Improve the Impact and Influence with Others, written by...
December 24th, 2016 Early morning, we traveled with the OBAT English School staff, teachers and students to Mirpur. There we began by visiting the OBAT water point and a preschool, while meeting with the camp residents along the way. In Mirpur, along with our water point and preschool that serves more than fifty students, we also have thirty students participating in our working children’s class and twenty-four students enrolled in our IT center that has more courses in the...
Wondering how this day went? We arrived in Rangpur at night and started our tour early in the morning. First, we went to our preschool project at Huda camp and Ispahani camp No. 2, Rangpur with our OBAT Team. We currently have six preschools in Rangpur with a total of one hundred and thirty-three students. The best part of visiting our education programs is seeing how eager the students are to share their talent and school work with...
20th December, 2016 We began our day with our OBAT team including Dr. Rezwan, Dr. Kaiser, Arishaa, Immad Ahmed, Sohail Akhter Khan, Guddu, Sunny, Fakhruddin and local leaders of OBAT Saidpur, Halim Khan and Mahfuz. We visited the Arabic education center, in Bansbari, Saidpur where twelve wonderful kids had completed reading the Holy Quran. Along with excelling in school, these children are learning the Quran with meaning. We have nine preschools in Saidpur from which two hundred and fourteen students...
19th December, 2016 After an early morning journey from Rangpur to Saidpur with our OBAT team, including two honorable guests Dr. Rezwan Khan and Mr. Aftab Iqbal, we were ready for a busy day. We started our day by visiting Chamra Godown Camp in Saidpur, where we met with the camp residents and consulted with them regarding problems and solutions. We arrived at our pre-school in Chamra Godown camp before visiting our sewing center project for females in Golahat, Saidpur. Each...
Rangpur, 18th December, 2016 After visiting Bogra, we arrived in Rangpur. In the morning, we went to visit OBAT School situated at Alamnagar, Rangpur. We are proud to report that the OBAT Scout Team (of OBAT Junior High School) ranked in 5th position out of 475 schools. We were happy to visit every class and meet with incredible students. They are the future leaders of the country who dream of becoming doctors, scientists, engineers and so on. We look...
Bogra, Bangaldesh 17th December, 2016 On Saturday morning, we had a successful yearly meeting with our on-ground implementing partner, ISDCM. Afterwards, we made the long journey to Rangpur. On the go, we were able to visit different camps in Bogra, Bangladesh. The camps we saw were in need of infrastructure development after significant damage from a recent cyclone. We had an administrative meeting with Fakhruddin (SPGRC Secretary) regarding camp development and legal matters. He expressed his views...
