::: Sajida Foundation :::..........

Each year, our member families become a little less poor. They become better equipped to deal with the challenges of making a living. Their health and nutrition intake improve. Their children get access to primary education, leading to a better childhood experience.

Amina Bibi - First Member of SAJIDA

Amina heard about SAJIDA at the day care centre. She then came to the SAJIDA office and met its Director of Programs. She explained the entire process and gave her the responsibility of finding six, new members to form a group. This she did easily and got an initial loan of Tk, 3,000 in 1993.

In the second year again Amina took, a loan of Tk. 5,000. This time her business progressed so well that she gave up her job as a domestic servant and moved to a better accommodation. In the subsequent years, she received loans of Tk.10,000- Tk.12,000 and Tk. 15,000 respectively.

In 1998, Amina was granted a special loan of Tk. 55,000. The financial assistance under the two credit programes of SAJIDA Foundation has enabled her to do the following in addition to improving living conditions for her family

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	Provide effective and flexible financial services to the urban and semi-urban poor.
	Increase employability of member families by giving them education and vocational training.
	Provide training in different business skills, such as product development, quality assurance and bookkeeping.
	Train and create entrepreneurs to attain a level where banks deem them creditworthy.
	Establish child-care and educational centers so that mothers have the time to earn a living.
	Provide low-cost preventive and curative health services, including pathology, surgery and specialist services.
	Provide professional advice and legal support for family conflict resolution.



	Where other NGOs are focused on empowering the individual woman, SAJIDA empowers the entire family by giving them access to income, health and education.
	We believe in mothers’ empowerment rather than women’s empowerment
	Encourages members to invest in family-run enterprises rather than on activities that split up businesswomen from their families.
	We strongly believe in providing quality services, all these years our focus has been institutional development - developing SAJIDA as a sustainable, transparent, accountable institution for serving the poor.





This success is the result of the tremendous efforts put in by Nasima and her husband. SAJIDA too played an important role. It provided Nasima with credit, training and peer support. Click Here for Details





Mumtaz and her family rent a home in the poor area of Keranigang. Her husband and six of her seven children have congenital bilateral cataracts. The other child is deaf. Click Here for Details

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