Shuchona Foundation
# Shuchona Foundation

Shuchona Foundation (Bengali: সূচনা ফাউন্ডেশন) is a Bangladeshi non-profit foundation that works to help people with mental disability, neurological disability, autism, and mental health issues. Saima Wazed, daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is the founder and chairperson of the foundation.

## History

Shuchona Foundation was established in 2014. It was for a while known as Global Autism. The foundation released an app with Samsung mobile called "Look at me" that specifically designed to help with autism.

On 17 May 2017, 37 commercial banks donated 1360 million taka to Shuchona Foundation along with Jatir Janak Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust and Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust. On 4 June 2017, Shuchona Foundation started a program to train trainer who would provide information to lactating mothers with the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.

