Women Empowerment

UBL believes it is necessary that women, comprising half of the country's population, be progressively brought into the mainstream of economic activities to bolster development. Here we talk about some of our initiatives.

Project Aparajita

Project Joyeeta and Aparajita is helping rural women stand on their own two feet and enabling them to be financially empowered.

Fair & Lovely Foundation

Unilever Bangladesh's social initiative to encourage women's economic empowerment through information and resources in the areas of Career, Education and Enterprise, has created waves across the country.

Fair & Lovely Scholarship Programme

Under this scholarship scheme, 200 women who have passed their HSC each received a Taka 25,000 scholarship to support her tertiary level education.

Supplementary Education Programme with Faria Lara Foundation

In 2005 Fair & Lovely Foundation had initiated a Supplementary Education Programme with Faria Lara Foundation.

Urban Vocational Training

The expertise and experience of the successful WEALTH project inspired Fair & Lovely Foundation to start another huge entrepreneurship development programme in urban areas in 2005