It started in 1987 with a small garage school in SAJIDA’s founder’s residence. By 1993, it evolved into a formal institution offering micro-credit to poor urban woman in old Dhaka. Over the next decade, the micro-credit program diversified into different types of credit for a heterogeneous group of family entrepreneurs and simultaneously different types of social development programs were developed.
Through a remarkable gesture of corporate charity, Pfizer Inc. New York initially sold and subsequently donated 51% share of Pfizer Laboratories (Bangladesh) Ltd. – subsequently renamed Renata Limited - to SAJIDA.
Mission: To improve the quality of life of the members of SAJIDA Foundation and those of their immediate families
