ASHA

Fair Trade project in Bangladesh.

ASHA, ‘HOPE’ you said?

In Bengal language, the word ‘ASHA’ means ‘HOPE’. This says exactly what our non-profit association is striving at in Bangladesh: give hope to the poorest inhabitants in the Dhaka slums and to the rural population.

A friendly couple that has been working in Bangladesh for years and that speaks the language, gave a detailed account of these desperate and challenging situations. Some of us paid them a visit and we were immediately convinced that ‘HOPE’ should be rather simple to create.

In 2006 we founded ASHA in order to establish a modest breakthrough on the poverty scale. ASHA is engaged in the financing of village schools and the supervision of small-scale employment initiatives. The embroidery workshop provides by far the most employment.

» Village schools

» Employment initiatives

» Embroidery workshop

ASHA is acknowledged by the Ommersteyn Foundation and by Caritas International.