In order to achieve the missions of the Foundation, Shari’ah Financing is the prime program component. It is implanting full-fledged Islamic Microfinance program. Microfinance program of the foundation is not simply a financial service rather it is a service to the poor woman of Bangladesh to develop not only their financial capacity but also to improve life and socio-economic status as well as alleviate poverty of the nation. This Foundation started its microfinance operation on 3rd January 2022. As of June 2024. it has 18 branches serving 14,582 entrepreneurial poor woman with 195.68 million principal portfolios. It is contributing mostly to Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Development. However, is also lending to various sectors like Trading, Cottage & Handicraft, Processing and Manufacturing and many others.
About 30% of total loan portfolio given to agriculture sector, 25% to livestock and fisheries, 20% to trading of fish/vegetable/rice/groceries etc, 8% to Cottage & Handicraft and 14% to other sectors.
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