Standard Chartered Bangladesh has provided individuals and families in
need with food packages and cooked meals in partnership with the Bidyanondo Foundation. In total,
this intervention – to fight hunger and establish greater food security – has reached approximately
12,000 individuals across Dhaka.
This initiative was started during Ramadan with the donation of 2,000 hot sehri meals to ultra-poor
people who are either slum dwellers or who sleep on footpaths around Dhaka. As part of this effort,
a total of 2,000 households have also received food packages. Each food package is designed to
provide sustenance for a family for 15 days. To meet dietary and nutrition needs, food packages
contain rice, pulses, cooking oil, milk, and other essentials. A thousand of these beneficiary
households are comprised of low wage earners whose livelihoods have been heavily impacted by
damages caused by the Bangabazar fire. The remaining 1,000 households are low-income families
from Dhaka slum communities.
Naser Ezaz Bijoy, Chief Executive Officer, Standard Chartered Bangladesh, said, “It is a
blessing to play a role in alleviating and reducing the hardships faced by those who are struggling
to put food on the table. Providing underprivileged residents with food packages, in a difficult time,