The beginning of SAJIDA Foundation was as a private family-funded charity and to this day it has retained the familial involvement.

Association of other professionals at all levels is increasing year to year.

It has maintained high standards of transparency and professionalism since inception.

It started in 1987 with a small garage school in SAJIDA’s founder’s residence. By 1993, it evolved into a formal institution offering micro-credit to poor urban woman in old Dhaka.  Over the next decade, the micro-credit program diversified into different types of credit for a heterogeneous group of family entrepreneurs and simultaneously different types of social development programs were developed.