Education Bangladesh Project #10155

Educate 425 impoverished camp kids in Bangladesh

by OBAT Helpers Inc

Educate 425 impoverished camp kids in Bangladesh

Project Report | May 16, 2013
A little bit of sunshine from OBAT's Preschools.

By Saima Hassan | Project Leader

Training for Rangpur Preschool teachers

Dear friends,

A very happy summer to you! At this glorious time of the year, we have some of our own sunshine from OBAT’s preschools to send over to you.

Recently, we added a new center in the Ferozeshah camp in Rangpur, which makes the total number of preschools, twenty-one. These centers collectively house 232 delightful boys and 247 charming girls.

Since the last time you heard from us, we had two more training workshops conducted for our teachers. These were held in Chittagong and Rangpur. The workshops taught the teachers how to improve upon their current methods of teaching English, Bangla, Art and Math to the young children. The workshops are interactive in nature and feedback from the teachers is an integral part of revising the curriculum or making adjustments where needed.

In the accompanying pictures, you will also see some of the text books used by the school. These have been designed by the Education Coordinator of OBAT, Sohail Akhter Khan and his wife, Shamim Akhter who serves OBAT in a voluntary capacity. The couple has extensive experience working with Concern Worldwide prior to joining OBAT. Concern Worldwide is an international nonprofit organization.

We cannot thank you enough for generously supporting OBAT’s preschools through your contributions via GlobalGiving. In this year, we were able to get donations from some wonderful new donors and I would like to extend my special thanks to them. Only $3,140 remains to be raised for this project. We hope to reach that goal together with your support.

Best,

Saima Hassan.

(Dir. Dev. and Comm. OBAT Helpers Inc.)

Precious preschooler from the Rangpur Center

Training at the Chittagong Preschool

Chittagong preschool children pose for a group pic

Dedicated to learning

Some of the books taught at the preschools

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Feb 15, 2013
New Year Preschool Update

By Saima Hassan | Dir. of Development and Communications

Anwar Khan with preschool kids

Dear friends,
We are off to a great start in 2013 and as always have some good stuff to share with you about how the kids at our preschools that you have lend your generous support to, are doing.
In December of 2012, the little preschoolers had great fun meeting several visitors from the United States. Anwar Khan, the President of OBAT visits the camps every year in December. This year, he was accompanied by his daughter, Arishaa Khan who volunteers a lot of her time for OBAT, Katie Basbagill who is a human rights photojournalist and Zachary Rockwood who is a documentary film maker. All three of these wonderful individuals were there to meet these sweet souls and to capture their stories through film, photography and ink.
At present, we have a total of 437 students in 20 preschools with 209 boys and 228 girls. At the end of December, final examinations were held for preschool students; ninety-seven percent of these students cleared the exam.They were thus able to gain admission into an elementary school due to being prepared by the Preschools.
You have already helped us raise $5,225 so far. The project is gradually progressing towards its goal of raising the remaining amount of $8,525 and is enjoying a great ranking of 1,474 out of the 10,440 projects listed at GlobalGiving. Thank you for helping us get closer to our goal.
Please go to http://goto.gg/10155 if you wish to contribute more to the cause.
Do stay in touch through our social media sites: Facebook: (www.facebook.com/obat.helpers); Twitter:@OBATHelpers
With gratitude for your support,
Saima Hassan.
(Dir. of Development and Communications, OBAT Helpers Inc.)

Arishaa Khan with the kids at Chittagong Preschool

Drawings made by preschool kids

Katie and Zachary at Khulna preschool

Katie Basbagill with Chittagong Preschool kids

Chittagong Preschool children

Anwar Khan with preschool kids

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Nov 16, 2012
News from OBAT Helpers' Preschool Program

By Saima Hassan | Project Leader

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