Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan Trust Bangladesh () is a

Bangladesh government The government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh () is the central government of Bangladesh. The government was constituted by the Constitution of Bangladesh comprising the executive (the president, prime minister and cabinet), the le ...

managed trust that is responsible for managing a number of orphanages in Bangladesh. It is under the Ministry of Social Welfare. The chairperson of the trust is

Nuruzzaman Ahmed Nuruzzaman Ahmed (born 3 January 1950) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Lalmonirhat-2 constituency during 2014–2024. Earlier, he served as the minister of social welfare and the state ...

, Minister of Social Welfare.

History

In May 1984,

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was an Emirati royal, politician, philanthropist and the founder of the United Arab Emirates. Zayed served as the governor of Eastern Region from 1946 until he became ...

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and Emir of Abu Dhabi, visited Bangladesh. During his visited, he expressed a desire to establish orphanages. He founded the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan Trust Bangladesh in 1987 to run orphanages in Bangladesh. The trust manages two orphanages, one in

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, built in 1993, and another in Mirpur,

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, built in 1987. The trust is funded by income generated from Bangladesh UAE Moitry Complex. The Trust started with an initial funding of US$50 thousand from the

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. The Trust, beside the moitry shopping complex in Banani, built a number of residential buildings with the aim to use rent from those buildings to fund the orphanages. In 2006, the trust established Mirpur High School. The trust has subsidized the High School with 20 million taka by 2018. In 2020, an investigation by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Welfare discovered graft and mismanagement in the running of the trust. The committee recommended the appointed of an external auditor. On 6 March 2019, three girls at the orphanage in Lalmonirhat District, managed by Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan Trust Bangladesh, attempted to commit suicide by consuming a toilet cleaning product.

References

1987 establishments in Bangladesh Organisations based in Dhaka Government agencies of Bangladesh Orphanages in Bangladesh {{Bangladesh-org-stub