People’s Welfare Foundation
Basic Information
People’s Welfare Foundation (PWF) is a Non-Profit and Non-Government Organization. It started its philanthropic and humanitarian journey in 2004, having a core vision of eradicating poverty and ensuring human rights for every individual under the prominent and proficient Founder, Mr. Md. Emdadul Hoque. To achieve its ultimate vision, the organization, since its inception focused on several need-based issues of community people under the micro finance programs. These programs are mainly initiated to contribute towards poverty alleviation along with education, literacy, training, health services, rehabilitation, agriculture and rural development, preservation and development of environmental issues, women empowerment, social development, and behavioral changes in the community, research and publication under the technical and financial support of national and international development agencies, as well as from individuals. For microcredit operations, generally, its target clients are poor women. The corporate office of the organization is located at Village: Kaitra, P.O: Uttar Gazipur, Upazila: Laksam, District: Cumilla, Bangladesh.
Chief of NGO Info
Md. Emdadul Hoque
Executive Director
People’s Welfare Foundation
Established Date
Legal Status
- Register of Joint Stock Companies and Firms: 3663(452)/2004 dated 15/03/2004
- Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) Registration No.: 00257-00066-00627 dated 17/04/2012
Vision
The People’s Welfare Foundation envisions a society free from human rights violations and committed to ensuring social justice.
Mission
To improve the quality of life of the target communities and those of their immediate families.
Objectives
- To organize and mobilize the poor, illiterate, and landless children, women, and men into viable groups at the village and grassroots level so that they can plan to implement, manage, and control their activity targeted for their own socio-economic and cultural development.
- To improve the economic position of disadvantaged children, women, and men through credit support to involve them in income and employment-generating activities, which will help to reduce their social, economic, and cultural vulnerability.
- To facilitate and ensure the target people’s access to resources and facilities provided by the government and others.
- To improve the health situation of children, women, and men through health education, mobilization of available health services, and delivery of possible health services as required.
- To change the status of children, women, and men by promoting the rights of children, women, and human rights as a whole.
- To enhance the target people’s potential, competency issues, and capability through training, education, and learning aimed at sustained improvement in their lives.
- Work as a complement and supplement to all government efforts and activities for development.
- To train target people and their families to make them more capable of earning by imparting to them basic education and sound vocational training.
- To establish an ecologically balanced environment.
- To arrange all possible measures in a proactive way to change society, upholding its interests.
Major Activities
- Microfinance
- Education
- Gender
Network / Forum
- Credit and Development Forum (CDF), Dhaka
- MAC Development Foundation, Cumilla
- Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB), Dhaka
Partnership/Doner
Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF)
Head Office Address
Total Branch Offices
Total Staff
Comilla Office Address
Village: Kaitra, P.O: Uttar Gazipur, Upazila: Laksam, District: Cumilla, Bangladesh.