Insaan Aid, an award-winning charity, was founded in 2006 by a group of volunteers in Suffolk. In April 2008, it became registered with the Charity Commission, UK. It was also registered as an NGO with the Government of Bangladesh in 2022.
Insaan Aid’s objective is to alleviate poverty, hardship and suffering in Bangladesh and beyond. Its work is overseen by a management committee consisting of members from Suffolk’s Muslim community.
Over the last 19 years, the charity has grown bigger and busier, providing a range of projects and services to some of Bangladesh’s poorest people.
As a volunteer-led organisation, there is minimal overheads as 100% of donations reach the neediest, whilst all administrative costs are covered by Gift Aid.
Insaan Aid is a non-political, non-profit making, non-denominational charity. Its values, principles and norms are guided by the universal Islamic worldview, which revolves around the need to preserve and promote the lives, properties and dignity of individuals as well as humanity as a whole.
’Those who (in charity) spend of their goods by night and by day, in secret and in public, have their reward with their Lord: on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.’ (Qur’an, 2:274)