Welcome to Bangladesh Women's Foundation

Bangladesh Women’s Foundation initiated in 2003 to assist in empowering emerging women’s groups and organization of rural women in Bangladesh. After the independence of Bangladesh, over the years there are large number of women’s groups and organization have been established in most remote areas but due to lack of access to external or local financial resources they remain in active and ineffective in the development process. To intervene the situation, NUK has been working to support LWOs since 2003 to strengthening of these organizations’ institutional capacity and women’s leadership development. At the stage of organizing NUK realized their financial problem preventing this organization to be effective in the women’s movement. Since 2003, BWF funded Hence NUK has initiated to develop Bangladesh Women’s Fund Society for creating alternative funding sources for self-sustenance of women’s leadership in grassroots level and indigenous rural based organizations/groups throughout the country.