Shuchona Foundation () is a Bangladeshi non-profit foundation that works to help people with mental disability, neurological disability, autism, and mental health issues.

Saima Wazed Saima Wazed (; born 9 December 1972), also known as Putul (), is the daughter of Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. She is serving as the South East Asian regional director for the World Health Organization since November 1, 2023 ...

, daughter of Prime Minister

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, is the founder and chairperson of the foundation.

History

Shuchona Foundation was established in 2014. It was for a while known as Global Autism. The foundation released an app with

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called "Look at me" that specifically designed to help with autism. 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. 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 The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (; ''Mahilā ō śiśu biṣaẏaka mantraṇālaẏa'') is a government ministry of Bangladesh responsible for the formulation of policies that promotes the institutionalization and development of women ...

References

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