Every year, Bangladesh Railway Scout Management Team in Chittagong holds a competition for Scout Families. Though all participants receive certificates, only the top three winners are awarded cash prizes. With nearly 200 students participating in this annual competition, OBAT SBN High School students and scouts, Nur Nahar and Sravanti Akhter, won second and third place! We are so proud of them both! ...
How one OBAT Star is Pursuing his Dream & Giving Back Since Sobuj was just a child, he dreamt of becoming a professional cricket player. For a boy living in the camps, this was not only a big dream, but an incredibly difficult one to achieve. With many camp families struggling to make ends meet, young children working to supplement their parents’ meager income, and schools with few resources or athletic programs for the youth… becoming a cricket player was a...
In May 2014, I joined Mr. Anwar Khan at a symposium arranged in his honor by PRC Jeddah. The symposium, “The Role of Welfare Organizations in Supporting Stranded Pakistanis” opened a discussion about the plight of 1.2 million Stranded Pakistanis who were living in deplorable conditions at various relief camps throughout Bangladesh. THE HISTORY History has on records that the Urdu-speaking communities, soon after partition in August 1947, arrived in several waves and settled across the then East Pakistan. Representing...
Our most exciting news of the month is that YOU have helped two camp families break the cycle of poverty for good! Swapna and Raju, both OBAT scholarship recipients, have been empowered through your support to build a brighter future for themselves and their families. Swapna, who currently works as our Scholarship Program Manager; and Raju, our OBAT Public Relations Officer, have both – with hard work and dedication -been able to gain stability and transition to homes outside of the...
