Shuchona Foundation (Bengali: সূচনা ফাউন্ডেশন)[1] is a Bangladeshi non-profit foundation that works to help people with mental disability, neurological disability, autism, and mental health issues.
[2][3][4] Saima Wazed, daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is the founder and chairperson of the foundation.
[8] The foundation released an app with Samsung mobile called "Look at me" that specifically designed to help with autism.
[9] On 17 May 2017, 37 commercial banks donated 1360 million taka to Shuchona Foundation along with Jatir Janak Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust and Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust.
[10] On 4 June 2017, Shuchona Foundation started a program to train trainer who would provide information to lactating mothers with the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.