About Us

Zahedee Foundation is a non-government, non-profit and charitable social welfare organization that was founded in 2009, named after the Zahedee family of Jhenaidah. The idea of the foundation was initiated by late Zahid Hossain Musa, an eminent personality of Jhenaidah, a language movement activist, a politician and a cultural activist and above all, the guardian of the Zahedee family. Subsequently, the organization was registered with Joint Stock Company and NGO Bureau, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Fundamentally, the organization is focused towards eradicating poverty, facilitating education, accessible healthcare services, developing sports, and building infrastructures. Zahedee Foundation has also been undertaking different development activities for raising the socio-economic status of the disadvantaged, disabled and vulnerable communities in Jhenaidah and greater Jashore districts.

Some of the significant activities of the foundation include large scale food distribution programmes in Jhenaidah and other parts of the country organized twice a year since 2011, monthly scholarship schemes for education of the poor students, financial grants to different schools and peripheral hospitals, construction of building for schools and colleges, establishment of the Shams-ul-Huda Football Academy at Hamidpur, Jashore and a cultural organization, Shilpi Sangha, in Jheniadah. The foundation also patronized to conserve endangered plants and regularly provides funds for developing different religious structures. Over and above, the foundation supports the distressed people in different ways.