SAJIDA Foundation

SAJIDA Foundation SAJIDA Foundation is a value-driven, non-profit organisation.

18/06/2026

Not just accessible, our financial inclusion services are designed to be fast, transparent, and convenient.

For small entrepreneurs across Bangladesh, managing loans and savings once meant manual transactions and repeated office visits. Our digitised microfinance operations are now transforming that experience.

Members can now access transaction information in real time and receive instant updates, while staff are able to make faster decisions with greater visibility, efficiency, and data-driven insights.

Watch the video to learn more.

11/06/2026

⚽ বিশ্বকাপের মাঠে সবাই চায় লেভেল প্লেয়িং ফিল্ড। তাহলে জীবনের মাঠে সাদিয়াদের জন্য সমান সুযোগ কেন নয়?

এই বিশ্বকাপের উন্মাদনায়, আসুন প্রতিটি নারীর পাশে দাঁড়াই, হই তাদের সবচেয়ে নির্ভরশীল টিমমেট। 💪

In coastal Bangladesh, disasters strike with little warning but with devastating impact on livelihoods.Our Building Clim...
10/06/2026

In coastal Bangladesh, disasters strike with little warning but with devastating impact on livelihoods.

Our Building Climate-Resilient Food Systems project is helping communities adapt with locally suited seeds, smarter storage and stronger market links so they're better prepared to absorb the shock.

The outcome: stronger food security, better incomes, and a ripple effect reaching neighbouring households. Change, it turns out, is contagious.

Dive deeper into the programme's efforts: https://youtu.be/oJ23uW0Dq9c?si=0l20wyXHvbfZ8Q26

সম্প্রতি ঘন ঘন অনুভূত হচ্ছে ভূমিকম্প। এই সময়ে সচেতনতা হতে পারে ঝুঁকি কমানোর সবচেয়ে কার্যকর প্রস্তুতি। জেনে নিন ভূমিকম্পে...
08/06/2026

সম্প্রতি ঘন ঘন অনুভূত হচ্ছে ভূমিকম্প। এই সময়ে সচেতনতা হতে পারে ঝুঁকি কমানোর সবচেয়ে কার্যকর প্রস্তুতি। জেনে নিন ভূমিকম্পের আগে, চলাকালীন ও পরে কী করণীয়।

We were a nation of rivers, of green, of resilience. Today we make headlines about bad air, polluted rivers, and disappe...
05/06/2026

We were a nation of rivers, of green, of resilience. Today we make headlines about bad air, polluted rivers, and disappearing green.

This damage was built slowly, through millions of small, unconscious choices. It can be undone the same way - through millions of better ones.

Plant a tree. Recycle. Avoid fast fashion. Refuse single-use plastic. Switch to solar.

Every conscious choice is a step towards a better future. The world we wish for begins with the habits we choose, every single day.

Sharif had mastered teaching for years. He knew how to command attention and move through difficult subjects. But there ...
04/06/2026

Sharif had mastered teaching for years. He knew how to command attention and move through difficult subjects. But there was one topic he never considered teaching: the monthly experience shared by more than half of his students, period.

At the institution he taught, 159 of 289 students are girls. Every month, he noticed, many would miss classes. The reasons were always the same: period pain, lack of facilities, shame.

One day, a field officer from the Stop the Stigma project, a collaboration between Plan International Bangladesh and SAJIDA Foundation, came to the institution and offered to introduce a menstrual health and hygiene programme. The principal and most teachers resisted. Menstruation, they felt, was too private a topic to be discussed in classrooms.

Sharif was not initially certain he disagreed. But something about the absences stayed with him. If girls were losing school over something manageable, staying silent was a choice with repercussions.

He convinced the principal to allow the programme, underwent training, and did something few male teachers in his community had done: he started teaching menstrual health.

"When I started leading classes on menstrual health, many parents and even some teachers criticised me. But I kept going because I knew the importance of this work.

The attendance registers started to change. Girls were not anymore missing classes for periods. They were also asking questions to understand menstrual cycle better.

Sharif also began providing sanitary pads to students who needed them. The act was simple. The effect was not. A girl who had a pad and a functioning washroom had no reason to go home with unfinished lessons. The slow shift Sharif had hoped for was becoming visible.

Then came an unexpected sign of change. Before graduating, tenth-grade students donated twenty packets of sanitary napkins as a farewell gift for younger girls.

"I was surprised. Menstruation is a topic that women and girls still feel ashamed to discuss, and yet here were my students proposing to make it part of their farewell. I and all the teachers in my madrasa were proud.”

The Stop the Stigma project did not simply change what happened in one classroom. It changed what was possible in one institution, and through that institution, in one community.

Read more: https://www.sajida.org/knowledge-hub/stories-of-sajida/the-teacher-who-broke-the-silence/

For many girls in Sathi's village in Bhola, periods came with silence, a reality still shared by many girls and women ac...
03/06/2026

For many girls in Sathi's village in Bhola, periods came with silence, a reality still shared by many girls and women across the country. They have questions, but no safe person to ask. When they need sanitary pads, they feel embarrassed to buy them openly.

Sathi knew this silence closely. When she first got her period in class six, she was frightened.

"I told my mother and she told me not to tell anyone. It was a shameful thing, a secret thing. She gave me an old cloth and showed me how to fold it. That was all the guidance I received."

For years, Sathi managed her period quietly, facing discomfort and recurring infections, until she was trained through the Stop the Stigma project, being implemented by SAJIDA Foundation and Plan International Bangladesh.

Through the project, adolescent girls like Sathi are trained to be peer leaders and build a small network of women entrepreneurs for making menstrual hygiene products more available and accessible in remote areas. Sathi learned what she had once needed to know herself, and started selling sanitary pads from her home with just 20 packets.

"I thought, I live in a remote area. Who will buy pads here? But I was completely wrong. The demand was already there. Girls just had no one nearby to buy from."

Girls began coming to Sathi not only to buy pads, but to ask the questions they had kept to themselves for years. She has since reached around 60 adolescent girls as a young entrepreneur, a peer educator, and someone girls in her community can turn to.

Read more: https://www.sajida.org/knowledge-hub/stories-of-sajida/how-sathi-became-the-girl-others-could-ask-about-periods/

For many adolescent girls, "period" remains a whispered word that quietly costs them their confidence, health, and educa...
01/06/2026

For many adolescent girls, "period" remains a whispered word that quietly costs them their confidence, health, and education.

This Menstrual Hygiene Day 2026 we brought together girls, teachers, health professionals, and local authorities for open conversations on menstrual health in Dhaka and Bhola, under the global theme , as part of the WASH4UP Phase-II project with WaterAid Bangladesh and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

Through storytelling, medical awareness sessions, and a live demo of the menstrual hygiene management app - Ananya, students were encouraged to speak openly, ask questions confidently, and deepen their understanding of safe menstrual hygiene.

"Before today, I always felt shy talking about periods. Now I understand it is normal, and I should not be afraid to ask questions", shared Eva, a class VIII student and participant of the session.

A period-friendly world starts with awareness, empathy, and safe spaces. And we remain committed to building it every single day.

This Eid-ul-Adha, while many around the world celebrate through uncertainty and hardship, may we remember the values tha...
27/05/2026

This Eid-ul-Adha, while many around the world celebrate through uncertainty and hardship, may we remember the values that bring people together beyond borders and differences:

A shared meal.
A warm embrace.
A simple act of kindness.

May the spirit of sacrifice inspire more compassion, more understanding, and a world that feels a little more humane for everyone.

ঈদের খুশি উদযাপনের সাথে জড়িয়ে আছে আমাদের চারপাশের দায়িত্ববোধও। আসুন, প্রয়োজনীয় সতর্কতা মেনে চলি এবং পরিবেশ সুন্দর র...
25/05/2026

ঈদের খুশি উদযাপনের সাথে জড়িয়ে আছে আমাদের চারপাশের দায়িত্ববোধও। আসুন, প্রয়োজনীয় সতর্কতা মেনে চলি এবং পরিবেশ সুন্দর রেখে সবাই মিলে এবারের ঈদের খুশি ভাগাভাগি করে নিই।

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