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Shuchona Foundation

Disability organization based in Bangladesh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Shuchona Foundation (Bengali: সূচনা ফাউন্ডেশন)[1] is a Bangladeshi non-profit foundation that works to help people with mental disability, neurological disability, autism, and mental health issues.[2][3][4] Saima Wazed, daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is the founder and chairperson of the foundation.[5][6][7]

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History

Shuchona Foundation was established in 2014.[2] It was for a while known as Global Autism.[8] The foundation released an app with Samsung mobile called "Look at me" that specifically designed to help with autism.[9]

On 17 May 2017, 37 commercial banks donated 1360 million taka to Shuchona Foundation along with Jatir Janak Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust and Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust.[10] On 4 June 2017, Shuchona Foundation started a program to train trainer who would provide information to lactating mothers with the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.[11]

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