SAJIDA Foundation

SAJIDA’s goal is to improve the ability of poor Bangladeshi women to take charge of their lives and earn productive livelihood through access to credit and knowledge of enterprise development.

OBJECTIVES • To provide effective, flexible and responsive financial services to the urban-semi-urban poor women. • To provide training in different aspects of business such as product development, quality assurance, basics of bookkeeping. • To train SAJIDA members and their families to make them employable by imparting them with basic education and sound vocational training. • To establish child-care and education centers so that parents can be freed from the compulsion of looking after children and can thus go out to earn money. • To provide preventive and curative low cost health services to its members and their families. • To train and create entrepreneurs, members who show potentials and bring them to a level where they become credit worthy to banks and move out of the poverty trap. • To provide professional advice through SAJIDA counselors for family conflict resolution and legal support in case of need.