Education First
Scholarships, learning centres and school supplies for children who would otherwise be left behind.
Community Health
Free clinics, maternal care and health awareness campaigns in underserved districts.
Disaster Resilience
Emergency relief and rebuilding support for families hit by floods, cyclones and river erosion.
Who we are
A foundation built by the people it serves
Jibon Foundation started in 2011 with a handful of volunteers rebuilding one flood-damaged school in Kurigram. Today we're a registered non-profit working across 12 districts, but the approach hasn't changed: listen to the community first, then build alongside them — not for them.
- Registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh
- 92% of donations go directly to field programs
- Locally led teams in every district we operate in
Trusted by & partnered with
How we work
From first visit to a community that can carry on without us
Every program follows the same three-stage path, because durable change can't be rushed.
Listen & Assess
Our field teams live in the community for weeks before proposing anything, mapping real needs with local leaders.
Build Together
Programs are co-designed and co-run with residents — from committee members to local health workers.
Hand Over & Monitor
Once a program is self-sustaining, ownership transfers to the community, and we check in quarterly for two years.
Our programs
Where your support goes
Shikhon Learning Centres
After-school centres in char and slum communities giving 6,000+ children a safe place to learn.
Maa O Shishu Clinics
Free maternal and child healthcare reaching mothers who live hours from the nearest hospital.
Nijer Bol Livelihoods
Micro-grants, skills training and market access for women rebuilding household income.
Where we work
One office in Dhaka. Roots in eight districts and growing.
Each node represents a district with an active field team — not a satellite office, but a local staff group embedded in that community for the long run.
Impact, in numbers
Fourteen years of showing up
"We don't measure success by how many programs we run. We measure it by how many we've handed over — to committees, to health workers, to families who no longer need us."
Nasrin Akhter · Executive Director, Jibon Foundation
The micro-grant let me buy a second sewing machine. Now I train two neighbours and we take in orders together. My daughter goes to the Shikhon centre after school instead of the fields.Rina Begum — Nijer Bol participant, Kurigram
My son couldn't read at eight years old. Two years at the Shikhon centre and now he helps his younger sister with her homework. I never thought that would happen.Abdul Karim — Parent, Shikhon Learning Centre, Cox's Bazar
The mobile clinic came to our char when I was pregnant with my second child. No hospital was reachable in the monsoon. I don't know what would have happened otherwise.Shirin Akter — Maa O Shishu Clinic patient, Sirajganj
Global alignment
Our work maps to five UN Sustainable Development Goals
We report our program outcomes against these SDG targets each year, so donors can see local work in a global context.
Financial transparency
Where every taka goes
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News & Field Stories
Monsoon relief reaches 2,300 families in Kurigram
Boats carried food, water-purification tablets and tarpaulin to char households cut off by flooding.
Shikhon centre #42 opens its doors in Cox's Bazar
The newest learning centre will serve 180 children from fishing families along the coast.
Mobile clinic marks 10,000th maternal check-up
A milestone for the Maa O Shishu clinic program launched in three riverine unions in 2019.
Your support turns into a school bag, a clinic visit, a second chance.
Every taka is tracked to the family it reaches. Give once, or become a monthly Jibon Partner.