HOW IT STARTED
My elder son Muhammad Sa'ad Naasik is very kind. One day, after watching a TV program (in Perth, Australia) on the lifestyle of the poor people in Asia and some poverty-stricken African countries, he became very sad and was telling me that when he would grow up and start earning money he would give all his money to the poor people! I then asked him, "If you give away all your money, how will you survive?"  He could not answer to my question. I then explained to him that one shoud donate money to others keeping something for him to survive. On hearing this, my younger son Muhammad Suhail Najeeb expressed, "I am going to earn millions and millions of dollars when I grow up, and I would then be able to donate a lots of money to the poor people".
 
I appreciated their spirit and told them that we do not have to pay that much. If every one of us pays only a dollar or two, we can collect enough money to make our poor people in Bangladesh very happy. I told them that we could take the initiative to collect money for the poor people by setting up a social welfare organization. And thus Hasana Foundation Bangladesh was verabally formed.
 
Then Suhail Najeeb and Sa'ad Naasik on another day (12th July 2001) brought a coin holder before me and asked me to write a label "Donate for Hasana Foundation Bangladesh" on it. Then, Suhail Najeeb donated $2.00 (AU) and Sa'ad dropped $1.55 (AU) in the coin holder. Thus, they became the first two donors for Hasana Foundation Bangladesh.  Following their contribution, I also promised to donate $1,000.00 (AU). And the fund raising campaign for the organization thus began.
 
Dr. Md. Saifur Rahman
Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
 
Chairperson, Hasana Foundation Bangladesh.