Widow Foundation - We Improve and Dignify Our Women Foundation

WIDOW is a non-profit organization under The Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 with necessary permission from the government/concerned authority or competent authority of Bangladesh and the objects contrary to the provision of section 20 of the Act, and is funded solely by donations from individuals and corporations. These contributions are not only monetary but also in the form of in-kind contributions such as medical equipment, computer equipment and software, facilities, vehicles, mobile clinics and volunteers in the medical, pharmaceutical, biological, environmental and educational fields.

The Foundation was created to address the shortage of care currently available to women in the prenatal and postnatal conditions, infants and children that live in the economically depressed rural regions of Bangladesh by providing health and medical information, educational training and services.

The foundation works to develop and institute programs that also focus on improving the economy in these regions and the equality of women and more specifically the economic development of ethnic minority women and those living in remote and poor areas; and that assist women in rural areas as they attempt to better their economic, health and welfare conditions so that a platform of economic stability can be established that will be able to improve and sustain the medical and health needs of those communities.

The foundation not only facilitates the introduction of medical science and technology to these regions and works to procure the necessary medicine, equipment and facilities required to support their regional program; but also, provides educational assistance that encourages and develops good practices of preventive medicine and early identification of health problems and maladies suffered by women and children in these areas.

The Foundation also supports initiatives that protect the legal rights and interests of women and facilitating their livelihood and personal growth through promoting employment and enhancing their physical and mental health while promoting and implementing programs that provide for the people’s basic needs, general health and welfare.

It's called self-development because local people define their own needs and build organizations for social change — while WIDOW provides training, tools, financial resources, and networking opportunities to support their vision.

Our mission

Area of operation: All over Bangladesh.
The prime objective of the Society is” Charity for Humanity”. The society will not involve in business at any cost.

To make awareness to stop child labor and provide basic education for hard to reach urban working children and women and to offer work for their parents.
To organize campaign for STD (Sexual Transmitted Disease) like AIDS, Genital Herpes and warts etc and make awareness about women health and hygiene.
To extend helping hand to helpless women at any corner in the country
To help widow and divorce women by creating jobs for them.
To organize IT training for making women skilled and provide jobs for them.
To arrange counseling for social frustrated a woman who wants to commit suicide and who wants to break family by divorce.
To undertake and carry on any humanitarian or charitable program for the poor and under privileged people and build hostels for widow, divorce and other helpless women who are exploited by their family.
To take up program for eliminating corruption and launce patriotic educational program in primary level.
To take up program to distribute relief among the neglected, poverty stricken in the event of any natural calamity like flood, storm, cyclone and earth quack.
To arrange training activities of improved educational program for literate and half educated people for the purpose of increasing capability of works.
To establish libraries, reading room, study center for developing the habit of study for the benefit of the society.
To arrange awareness program to make our planet free of pollutions.
To arrange program for child amusement and make their education with fun.
To create awareness to all religion to practice individual religious beliefs without fear and try to make communal harmony in the society.
To make awareness among the general public, poor masses and human society regarding their beneficial program.
To publish rare / old manuscript of the lost folklore of the country including the myth book after being collected them.
To arrange exhibition of fine art / painting through display center / museum and mobile museum.
To arrange display of sculpture / collection of painting through museum and mobile museum.
To arrange painting collection by establishing educational institution of fine arts.
To undertake motivation work among the human being/public to create awareness literature, arts and science
To undertake program for educational research on archeology and historical relies.
To collect and preserve mechanical and scientific map and design for the benefit of members and the general public.
To distribute books free of cost among the poor student Alem, and Ulema of school, college, university and madrasha for the purpose of amelioration of the quality of education.
To establish Foundation and reading room for the members and for the use of the general public for the purpose of promotion of education and culture.
To establish run and maintain school, college, madrasha and such other educational institution both general and technical for the purpose of diffusion of useful knowledge among the people or target group.

Our vision

Widow Foundation started as a small group with a big idea, and the idea was this: To be fully human, we must translate our compassion and concern into useful service this simple statement conveys something about the nature of compassion that is expressed in most spiritual traditions around the world — that compassion is not just about helping those less fortunate than ourselves, it's about the realization that we are all connected as one human family.

That sense of compassionate service motivates all of Widow’s work, as we build programs that support people around the world in their efforts to build healthy communities. Widow’s programs, spanning many cultures and countries, share certain fundamental principles:

Girls and women in rural areas of Bangladesh are burdened by a combination of factors that limit their opportunities and make it extremely challenging for them to develop the skills they need.

Widow supports innovative community-based programs that offer training, mentoring and advocacy services designed to empower women and enable them to participate fully in all levels of societal decision-making

Education is the key to enabling marginalized people to achieve meaningful participation in society. To that end, the Program works with local partners to create opportunities for people in poor, rural areas to access culturally appropriate educational resources

Widow Program is empowering local people to address these basic needs by helping to provide the training, technical support and resources they need to build locally managed community health services and water systems