A foundation from Bangladesh
Amar Hashi Foundation trains women across Bangladesh in livelihoods, education, and health, so dignity is never someone else's gift to give.
Our mission
Amar Hashi means "my smile" in Bengali. It began with a simple conviction: that empathy, when coupled with purpose, can transform communities.
Founded in Dhaka in 2020, we work where livelihood, dignity and mental well-being meet. Our programs reach women in villages, slums and refugee settlements, and give them the skills, resources and confidence to rewrite their own stories.
From sewing centres in rural Bangladesh to menstrual health circles for adolescent girls, our work is small, deliberate and rooted in relationships. We measure success in the smiles of the women we serve.
What we do
Each program opens a door to income, to knowledge or to health, and that door stays open long after we've moved on.
Three-month intensive courses in tailoring, cutting and machine operation. Graduates receive a sewing machine to launch home businesses and become their family's first earners.
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School supplies, nutrition support and literacy programs for girls in underserved communities. Because the surest path to a woman's future begins in her earliest years.
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Awareness workshops, dignity kits and open conversations for adolescent girls and women. Ending stigma, one circle at a time.
Give a dignity kit →When women rise, entire societies rise with them.The Amar Hashi philosophy
Our founder
Founder · Psychologist · Entrepreneur
"I started social welfare clubs in class eight. Amar Hashi is simply that same promise, grown up."
Srabonty Hasan is a graduate of the University of Dhaka, a mental health professional, and the founder of Amar Hashi Foundation. Her humanitarian work began as a schoolgirl and has since taken her from Dhaka's slums to international policy circles.
Alongside the foundation, she is CEO of Gorurgari, a UN best delegate, and a member of JCI Dhaka Entrepreneurs. Her advocacy has earned the SAARC Activism Award, the Mother Teresa Golden Award and the Asia Foundation Human Rights Award, among others.
Voices from the field
"Before the training I could only cook and wait. Now I sew school uniforms for the whole village. My daughters watch me work."
"The first time someone spoke to us about menstruation without shame, I understood I was not broken. I was a girl becoming a woman."
"My daughter now reads to me every evening. Something in our home has changed. There is more light here."
Support our work
Your gift funds training, machines, dignity kits and school supplies for women and girls across Bangladesh and beyond.