Year 2020 was a memorable year for many reasons. COVID-19 pandemic caused over 200,000 deaths in the USA and many more in the world. Many lost their jobs, businesses with increased financial misery. Economy of the country was ruined. With it’s meager resources COBA rose to the occasion and provided help where it could. Without the generous donation of many, COBA could not have achieved what it has done. Your continued trust and support in future will allow COBA to support more needy families here in Arizona and in Bangladesh supporting the orphans with their education, providing older people with eye care, like cataract surgery giving back their eye sight, giving healthy nutritional food to the expected mothers, food to the day care so the mothers can go to work and help people in general when natural calamities take place. It is the ‘Giving’ that you are doing through COBA! 

Below is the summary of activities in 2020. Due to many restrictions during COVID-19 pandemic, COBA collaborated with many other organizations and entities to achieve its objectives. We thank all of our partner organizations those who worked with us to provide food or other services to the people in need.

In Arizona: 
St. Mary’s Food Bank: [$2500] Provided over 17,500 meals
Women’s Transitional home by ICNA: [$5000] to support 5-6 battered women and their children with lodging, food and job assistance
Food pantry by MOVE: [$2500] to provide food and hygiene products to about 100 families in Chandler/Laveen area
Food pantry by Cultural Cup: [$2500] to provide food products to about 200 families in Phoenix areas
Cash payout: [$6000] to 12 families in metro-Phoenix

In Bangladesh: 
Food package distribution: [$5224] provided food packages to over 500 families in Chattogram, Sylhet, Dhaka and Rangpur
Rangpur Eye Clinic: [$3000] to support eye surgery of about 50-60 patients
Chattogram Orphanage:[$3000] to support 24 orphans for a year
Dhamrai Pre-school: [$2000] to support meals program for over 150 pre-school children
Sylhet NSS: [$2000] distributed blankets and sanitary facilities in Sylhet
DADUS: [$2000] to support self reliance and provide  medicine