projects

*Presentation by Adhunika team on current and future work at Annual Benefit Event, 2024 [Photo credit: Mark Rana Rosario]*

SAJIDA Foundation (SF): is a Bangladeshi national NGO that works with underprivileged and low-income groups. The mission of SF is to improve the quality of life in the communities through sustainable, holistic and effective interventions. SF’s activities include providing micro-credit, health services, micro-insurance, mobile medical services in extremely remote areas, working with pavement dwellers etc.

Dhaka DocLab – Dhaka DocLab is the pioneer platform for pitching and mentoring of documentary filmmakers. Dhaka DocLab organizes an annual event of pitching for Asian documentary filmmakers.

Anusree Roy, first recipient of Adhunika filmmaking grant, 2023

Cartoon People’s Girls Do Comics

Tonmoy, founder of Cartoon People

*Team Adhunika Jr., with “Where are the Chonchols?”, illustrated Tonmoy*

Samhati – Samhati is an organization of and for Bangladeshi women founded in 1984 by Bangladeshi women living in the Washington D.C. area. Samhati’s mission is to initiate, implement, and support small projects that improve the social and economic conditions of poor and otherwise disadvantaged women and children in Bangladesh.

Sid Yousuf, Team Adhunika Jr., and Monica Jahan Bose, Board of Director, Samhati

*Graduation ceremony for girls who learned how to bike [Source: Samhati]*

The University Press Limited – UPL’s Adopt A Library Program – The Adopt-a-Library program’s aim is to enhance the quality of libraries across the country of Bangladesh by providing them with books they otherwise could not afford.

Shamarukh Mohiuddin, Director at UPL