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17Dec

Wear jeans to work week- Thank you Protrans International!

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...

16Dec

A saga of four decades

 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...

08Nov

FIVE more days to go! Sign up to Race for Rehma!

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...

01Nov

Join us to Race for Rehma!

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...