Shuchona Foundation

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]

Shuchona Foundation
Formation2014
HeadquartersDhaka, Bangladesh
Region served
Bangladesh
Official language
Bengali
WebsiteShuchona Foundation

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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gollark: It's an attempt to wrest prizes from those who aren't stupidly rich.
gollark: ```Hoop Snake can fly and crawl fine, but he would much rather move by grasping his tail in his jaws and rolling around like a wheel. He looks extremely silly but can also move terrifyingly fast, but that is only because he manipulates time so viewers think he's wheeling faster and more gracefully than he really is. He's really a strange dragon with a head full of tall tales. His greatest adversaries are trees, which he tends to clumsily impale while rolling around the forest.```
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gollark: Ah, yes, I have a child from that.

References
  1. "বাংলাদেশ, অটিজম ও সূচনা ফাউন্ডেশন". Bangladesh Pratidin. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. "Mission & Vision". Shuchona Foundation. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  3. "Unique Glimpses: A Portrait of Bangladesh Through Their Eyes". The Daily Star. 24 June 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  4. "Responding to Needs of Families Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder". ipsnews.net. Inter Press Service. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  5. "Executive Committee". Shuchona Foundation. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  6. "Shuchona Foundation to train civil servants about autism, mental health". theindependentbd.com. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  7. "সূচনা ফাউন্ডেশনের নামে প্রতারণার অভিযোগে গ্রেপ্তার ১". Kaler kantho (in Bengali). Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  8. "Int'l Conference on Autism: Hasina, Saima show the way". The Daily Star. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  9. "Samsung, Shuchona Foundation launch autism app". The Daily Star. 31 October 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  10. "Banks donate Tk 136cr to prime minister". The Daily Star. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  11. "Current work". Shuchona Foundation. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
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