SBK Foundation

Empowering marginalized communities with technology and easy access to finance

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ABOUT SBK FOUNDATION

SBK Foundation is a non-profit organisation and world’s first Digital and Shariah only licensed Micro Finance Institution (MFI) in Bangladesh, aiming to empower marginalized communities with technology and affordable access to finance. Marginal communities often lack access to basic health, finance, legal and other crucial services due to poor infrastructure and insufficient resources. SBK Foundation aims to democratize technology and empower women & youth to generate income.
SBK Foundation offers sharia-compliant product, operates under Islamic finance principles which prohibit interest-based lending and require all financial transactions to be grounded in tangible assets and real economic activity.

What we do

Rural communities often lack access to basic health, financial, legal and other crucial services due to poor infrastructure and insufficient resources. We provide the required digital tools and skills to ensure that the basic needs of these rural citizens are met.

Our mission is to build digitally inclusive societies which provide technology access for all, contribute to a Digital Bangladesh and play a small part in moving underdeveloped nations to technology advanced countries.

Tech Hubs

We have established 64 Tech Hubs
one in each of the 64 districts of Bangladesh


Why Tech Hubs

Digital Literacy

To provide digital literacy through technology access, training and education

Access

To connect rural with urban and global by closing knowledge and skills gaps

Ecosystem

To develop an ecosystem through the digital transformation of local communities

How the Tech Hub Ecosystem Works

Each Tech Hub is managed by a tech-savvy entrepreneur who is provided laptops, a printer, scanner, copier and router, as a grant.

Our Data Science team helps the Tech Hub managers collect data about the needs and challenges of rural citizens.

Tech Hub managers then connect rural citizens to various startups which offer citizen services that need their specific needs and address their challenges.

The startups partnering Tech Hubs are: Dmoney (FinTech), Dokkho (EdTech), Pulse (MedTech), Uqeel (Legal Tech), Digiland (Land Protection) and PriyoShop (e-commerce).

A rural citizen with health issues can - for example - get medical advice from registered doctors through virtual consultancy via the Pulse app.

Tech Hub managers then connect rural citizens to various startups which offer citizen services that meet their specific needs and address their challenges.

Haate Haat App

Haate Haat (Hand to Hand) is a project initiated by the University of Oxford in collaboration with University of Birmingham under IDMODEL Project. The Inclusive Digital Model (IDMODEL) project is targeted in particular at young people and women, who are often marginalized and excluded from market participation due to unequal access to education, resources and information.

What we do What we do

Meet the team

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Sonia Bashir Kabir

Chairman

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ABM SAIFUL BARI

ED & CEO

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SHIMUL KUMAR RAY

Director-Operations

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Anisa Ali, CFA

Treasurer

Akkie
IFTIKHAR JIHAN

Finance Advisor

Akkie
ALAMGIR KABIR

Manager-Finance

Akkie
NABILA KARIM

Project Manager

Akkie
Ismet Enun

Manager-Operation

Be a part of our journey

Join as a Donor, a Local Tech Hub Entrepreneur, or a Volunteer and be a force for Digital Inclusion.

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