Aiding Afghan Refugees...

Here are a few ways that OBI is aiding the innocent with the help of partners like you:

• In mid November, OBI began to sponsor a soup kitchen in Pakistan for just $8,000 a month. Six thousand Afghan refugees receive lunch six days a week! That's not even one cent per hot meal of rice and beans or potatoes and meat. Please help OBI continue to sponsor this soup kitchen! Without this food, many will starve.
  
  
• OBI gave food to 650 refugee families with approximately six to seven members. Costing just $15 each, packages contain a bag of flour, rice, beans, oil, sugar, and tea. Each package will feed families for two to four weeks.
  
  
• OBI shipped 140 donated tents to Afghan refugee families living in Tajikistan. Materials for an additional 100 tents was purchased and laborers made them for free. We need funds for shipping costs! With a gift of just $45 you can provide refugee families with a 12' X 18' X 8' tent. Each tent will enable the average Afghan family with seven children to not only sleep, but to live sheltered from the brutal cold.
  
  
• During the second week of December, Pakistani physicians will freely treat and provide medicines to up to 14,000 children and their families living in refugee camps. The general medical package includes antibiotics, equipment (med scissors, forceps, blood pressure cuffs, etc), bandages, rehydration salts, etc., and will enable the treatment of ailments including respiratory problems, skin infections, dysentery, eye ailments and dehydration.
  
  
• A container holding warm clothing and shoes is on the way to protect Afghan refugees from the harsh elements the cold winters in Central Asia.