Program 01
Sewing & Livelihood Training
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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A Foundation from Bangladesh
Every woman
Every woman
deserves her
own smile.
Amar Hashi Foundation trains women across Bangladesh in livelihoods, education, and health — so dignity is never someone else's gift to give.
Since 2020 · Dhaka
1,200+
Women trained in livelihood skills
45
Districts reached across Bangladesh
8,500+
Menstrual hygiene kits distributed
4
Countries in our global network
Our mission
We believe when a woman rises, an entire community rises with her.
Amar Hashi — “my smile” in Bengali — began with a simple conviction: that empathy, when coupled with purpose, can transform communities.
Founded in Dhaka in 2020, we work at the intersection of livelihood, dignity, and mental well‑being. Our programs meet women where they are — in villages, slums, refugee settlements — and equip them with 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 not in press releases, but in the smiles of the women we serve.
What we do
Three doorways to dignity.
Each of our programs is designed to open a door — to income, to knowledge, to health — that stays open long after we've moved on.
Program 02
Education & Child Wellbeing
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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Program 03
Aparajita: Menstrual Health
Awareness workshops, dignity kits, and open conversations for adolescent girls and women. Ending stigma, one circle at a time.
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“When women rise, entire societies rise with them.”— The Amar Hashi philosophy
Our founder
Srabonty Hasan
Founder · Psychologist · Entrepreneur
"I started social welfare clubs in class eight. Amar Hashi is simply that same promise, grown up."
Srabonti 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 her foundation work, she is the CEO of Gorurgari, a UN best delegate, and a member of JCI Dhaka Entrepreneurs. Her advocacy has earned her the SAARC Activism Award, the Mother Teresa Golden Award, and the Asia Foundation Human Rights Award, among others.
University of Dhaka
Psychologist
SAARC Activism Award
Mother Teresa Golden Award
UN Best Delegate
Voices from the field
Small stitches, remade lives.
“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
A sewing machine changes
A sewing machine changes
an entire household.
Your gift funds training, machines, dignity kits, and school supplies for women and girls across Bangladesh — and beyond.