Kumudini Welfare Trust - an unusual model

2 June 2008
Alliance magazine

Established in the early 1940s by Rajiv Prasad Shaha, Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bengal focuses on the welfare of women and poor people in Bangladesh. The Trust is named after Shaha's mother, who died when he was a child. He gave his entire fortune, amassed through business ventures including transportation and the supply of coal, to the Trust.

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