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...
December 16th, 2016 After a long night’s journey, we returned to Dhaka from Khulna with the OBAT team. Our team grew in numbers with Dr. Rezwan Khan joining us from Dallas, TX and Arishaa Khan joining us from New York City. Our first engagement of the day involved visiting AWARD, another organization which works for the camp dwellers of Dhaka on different issues such as education, health, sanitation and so on. We had a great meeting with...
