Social impact
Kazi Shahid Foundation
The part of our work that was never meant to turn a profit.
Core capabilities
Built to do a few things exceptionally well
Interest-free cattle lending, rural schooling and healthcare across northern Bangladesh.
The Kazi Shahid Foundation lends cattle, not money, and charges no interest on either. A household receives an animal, keeps the milk and the calves, and returns the value when it can afford to — at which point the same value goes to the next household.
Around that sit schools, clinics and women’s savings groups in the districts where the group farms. It is funded by the businesses, and it owns ULAB.
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Interest-free cattle lending
Livestock advanced to rural households with no interest and no collateral.
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Rural schooling
Primary schools and stipends in the districts around our estates.
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Primary healthcare
Mobile clinics, maternal care and seasonal health camps.
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Women’s livelihood groups
Savings groups and skills training that keep the income inside the household.
By the numbers
50000+
Farmers supported
Interest-free cattle lending since 2004
Standards & compliance
- NGO Bureau registered
- Annual external audit
- Zero-interest charter
The experience
Inside the division
A closer look at how the work actually gets done — the sites, the line and the people on it.
Cattle handover in Panchagarh
A foundation primary school
Mobile clinic day
Women’s savings group meeting
We rise by lifting others.
Kazi Shahid Ahmed
Founder & Chairman, Gemcon Group
Find us
Where this division works
Talk to the people who run it. Enquiries reach the division office, not a central inbox.
- House 44, Road 16 (27 Old), Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209, Bangladesh
- +88 02 41020596-00
- foundation@gemcongroup.com
- Sunday – Thursday, 9:00 – 18:00
Ready to work with Kazi Shahid Foundation?
Partner organisations, researchers and volunteers are welcome to get in touch with the foundation office.