Hafezzi Charitable Stands with Disabled Families Across the Nation

Among the most silently suffering segments of any society are persons living with disabilities — their pain often invisible, their voices frequently unheard, their struggles buried within the walls of their own homes. Recognizing this profound reality, Hafezzi Charitable Society of Bangladesh (HCSB) has been conducting its structured Disability Welfare Programme for over a year, reaching disabled individuals and their families across multiple regions of the country.

On April 4, 2026, under this ongoing initiative, HCSB distributed welfare assistance worth approximately BDT 400,000 among vulnerable and marginalized families of persons with disabilities. The assistance package included premium-quality wheelchairs, dignified clothing support comprising lungis and three-piece suits for parents of newly identified disabled children, and other need-based humanitarian provisions. The organization emphasized that this is not a one-day showcase event — it is part of a sustained, long-term humanitarian commitment.

The Crisis Within the Family

HCSB’s ground-level observation has revealed a painful pattern: the birth or presence of a disabled child often triggers a cascade of family crises. Many relatives and community members fail to accept such individuals with normalcy. In numerous cases, fathers abandon responsibility. Marital tensions escalate. Relationships fracture. Divorces follow. Countless mothers are left to raise disabled children entirely on their own, with no support system in sight.

Even more heartbreaking is the reality that many disabled children, adolescents, women, and vulnerable adults — including those who are speech and hearing impaired — face mental and physical abuse at the hands of those closest to them. Unable to articulate their suffering, file complaints, or even communicate their distress, they carry their fear, shame, and helplessness in complete silence. Society sees them, yet fails to truly understand them. It hears them, yet fails to truly listen.

Inadequacy of State Support

The current government disability allowance stands at approximately BDT 650–700 per month — a figure woefully insufficient for even the most basic needs of a family in 2026. These families require far more than token financial assistance: they need medical care, physiotherapy, mobility equipment, nutritious food, safe shelter, clothing, psychological support, rehabilitation, and income-generating opportunities. HCSB has accordingly oriented its work beyond simple charity toward life-based, holistic humanitarian intervention.

One Year of Continuous Action

Over the past year, HCSB has consistently delivered support to disabled families, including:

∙           Meat distribution during Eid-ul-Adha

∙           Full grocery packages during Ramadan (each packet weighing approximately 30 kg)

∙           Medical assistance

∙           Monthly physiotherapy sessions

∙           Distribution of premium-quality wheelchairs, each valued at approximately BDT 17,000

∙           Battery replacement for non-functional motorized wheelchairs

HCSB underlined that a wheelchair is not merely a mechanical device — it is a gateway to mobility, freedom, and social participation for a person otherwise confined to four walls.

Upcoming Initiatives: Skills, Therapy and Safe Shelter

HCSB has announced several forthcoming programmes under its Disability Welfare initiative:

Tailoring Skills Training Centre: The organization will shortly launch a sewing and tailoring training programme under its direct management, open to disabled individuals and eligible family members. Participants completing training every three months will receive certificates, and selected graduates will be gifted sewing machines, enabling them to generate income from home and build lives of dignity and self-reliance.

Monthly Physiotherapy Programme: Recognizing that regular therapy is essential for many disabled individuals to maintain basic motor function and daily independence — and that most poor families cannot afford it — HCSB is arranging monthly physiotherapy support as an ongoing service component.

Safe Home / Shelter Centre: HCSB is actively planning the establishment of a dedicated safe home for homeless disabled children, abandoned siblings, and mothers deserted by their spouses. This centre will serve not merely as accommodation, but as a comprehensive hub for safety, care, medical treatment, rehabilitation, skills development, and human dignity.

Expansion of Field Operations

HCSB is simultaneously expanding its field teams across remote areas to identify and assess disabled families, maintain regular contact with them, and implement long-term self-reliance programmes. These include agricultural support, livestock provision, sewing machine distribution, skills training, and other need-based rehabilitative assistance — all part of a comprehensive roadmap to ensure disabled persons and their families are empowered to stand on their own feet.

Professor Amirul Islam, Senior Vice President of HCSB, stated:

“A small allowance or one-time support is never enough for persons with disabilities. Ensuring their security, medical care, therapy, mobility, psychological protection, freedom from family-based abuse, skill development, and the right to live with dignity — these are our collective humanitarian obligations. The unexpressed suffering of our speech and hearing-impaired brothers and sisters — the fear, humiliation, and helplessness lodged within their chests — weighs deeply on our conscience. Standing beside them is not an act of charity; it is the fulfillment of a profound moral trust.”

Muhammad Raj, Director General of HCSB, stated:

“HCSB does not operate on one-time programmes. Every few months, we return with new projects, new facilities, and new plans. The tailoring training programme will begin shortly — graduates will receive certificates and sewing machines, Inshallah. For those requiring therapy, we are working to establish a monthly system. Our goal is not merely to keep a disabled person alive through aid — we want them to stand in society with skill, dignity, and self-respect.”

Mawlana Ibrahim Khalil, of HCSB, stated:

“We invite compassionate citizens, religious scholars, and community leaders to join us in this work. Helping a person with disability is not simply helping one individual — it is saving a family from collapse, lightening a mother’s burden, securing a child’s future, and making society more humane.”

About HCSB

Hafezzi Charitable Society of Bangladesh (Registration No: S13879/22 | hcsb.org.bd) is a government-registered humanitarian organization operating across Bangladesh, Gaza, and Sudan. In addition to its Disability Welfare Programme, HCSB conducts emergency humanitarian operations in conflict zones, Ramadan and Qurbani distribution, skill development programmes, support for non-Muslim communities, madrasas for visually impaired persons, and broader social welfare initiatives — building a credible and sustainable humanitarian model in Bangladesh and beyond.

Today’s BDT 400,000 distribution is not merely a day’s programme — it is a continuing pledge, part of a quiet but powerful movement declaring that the most marginalized will not be left to face the world alone.