Sabrina Memorial Foundation is a Bangladeshi non-for-profit organization with the goal of providing social services such as education, healing, and hands-on training to the most needy in Bangladesh and other countries. Donation to the foundation is tax-deductible and Zakat eligible as it is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization. (Tax ID: 46-3384976)
Mission:
- to help the most under-privileged individuals of the community, focusing especially women and children.
- to empower individuals through education, healing and hands-on training.
Sabrina Memorial Foundation’s work include:
- Primary school in Bangladesh
- Adult literacy and vocational program
- Night school in Bangladesh
- Basic health care and information for healthy living in Bangladesh and Kenya
- Water and sanitation program in Bangladesh and Kenya
- Village development
- Community development, etc.
Background:
Founded in 2012, the Sabrina Memorial Foundation started with a young woman’s dream to help mankind. Her name was Sabrina Salam and she was an aspiring woman, a caring mother, a loving sister and an adored daughter. She had devoted her life to helping others. When Sabrina unexpectedly left this world in 2011, her death shocked everyone as her dream of helping mankind went unfulfilled. In honor of Sabrina’s devotion to helping those in need, her family took it upon themselves to pursue her humanitarian causes to turn her dreams into a reality.
Before her untimely passing, Sabrina and some of the founding members of the Sabrina Memorial Foundation were helping people in Jabusha, Bangladesh when a cyclone hit in 2007. Natural disasters such as cyclones are very common in Bangladesh due its geographical location. Thus when the Cyclone Sidr hit on November 15, 2007, coastal cities were heavily damaged as approximately 3,447 lives were lost in Bangladesh. The village of Jabusha, which is close to the coast of the Bay of Bengal, was almost wiped out by the storm. Work by the Sabrina Memorial Foundation started here in this village as some of the organization’s founding members worked hand in hand with local villagers to help them recover after the massive storm by assisting them with rebuilding homes, schools, and livelihoods. Since then, the foundation has helped to build schools, a vocational training center, a storm shelter, and a health center in Jabusha. SMF is currently undertaking multiple other projects to help the less fortunate in other regions of Bangladesh.
In addition to helping the people in Bangladesh, the Sabrina Memorial Foundation in 2014 expanded its projects in Kenya.
Outreach
Afsana Qurishi, Worldwide Public Relations & Communication Coordinator
afsanaqurishi17@gmail.com
Suhail Varwani, Worldwide Youth Liason & Publications Coordinator
suhailmv28@gmail.com
Programs in Bangladesh
Wasim Salam, Executive Director
info@sabrinamemorial.org
Programs in Kenya
Dr. Musa G. Varwani, Director of Health & Nutrition
mvarwani@yahoo.com
Education Program
Afrida Faria, Worldwide Education Program Coordinator
afrida.faria@smfacademy.org