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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...