HEART - Humanitarian Enhancement Aid for Resilient Transformation

Rohingya & Humanitarian Response

Standing With Families When Disaster Strikes

Our volunteers reach host and Rohingya families with food, relief and protection when floods and crises hit Cox's Bazar.

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HEART team handing over relief to an elderly man

A boy planting a tree with HEART volunteers

About HEART

Youth-Led Humanitarian
Action Since 2021

Humanitarian Enhancement Aid for Resilient Transformation-HEART (হিউম্যানিটারিয়ান এনহেন্সমেন্ট এইড ফর রেজিলিয়েন্ট ট্রান্সফরমেশন-হার্ট) was founded in 2021 in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar, when the post-COVID-19 crisis left local families and the Rohingya community struggling. Today it is a youth-led, non-political, non-profit organisation working with host and Rohingya communities across Cox's Bazar.

Humanitarian
response

Climate &
resilience

We connect grassroots realities with global action: HEART is a member of the GEF CSO Network and works with local, national and international networks.

DYD Registration No.

DYD/Teknaf-071

About us

9

Projects since 2021

7

Upazilas in Cox's Bazar

4

Awards & recognitions

3

Sister concerns

What We Do

Programs That Build
Resilience

Emergency

Rohingya & Humanitarian Response

Emergency relief, food assistance and protection for host and Rohingya communities in Cox's Bazar.

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Climate

Climate Action & Environment

Youth-led climate advocacy, tree planting and climate-smart livelihoods for vulnerable coastal communities.

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Youth

Youth Leadership & Capacity Building

Leadership, volunteering and policy engagement so young people can lead change in their communities.

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Health

Health, SRHR & Women's Wellbeing

Menstrual hygiene, sexual and reproductive health, and community health support for women, girls and children.

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Education

Education & Research

Learning support for children from marginalised families and research that amplifies community voices.

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Livelihoods

Skills, Entrepreneurship & Livelihoods

Vocational training, entrepreneurship incubation and climate-smart farming for women and young people.

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Protection

Child Protection, Rights & Civic Space

Preventing child marriage and trafficking, safeguarding communities and protecting human rights and civic space.

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Message From Our Founders

Working Together for Humanity

Jobair Mahmud

Founder & Executive Director

It is difficult for any government to do everything alone. Changing people's lives needs everyone's effort and cooperation. I hope the HEART family will keep working sincerely for the just needs of every ordinary person, for a non-communal, developed and prosperous Bangladesh.

A humanitarian leader and youth advocate from Teknaf, Jobair founded HEART in 2021. Under his leadership HEART won second position in the Policy Action Award and the TekSHOI Humanitarian Leadership Award, placed in the top seven of the Green Climate Leadership & Entrepreneurship Award, and took part in UNCCD COP17.

Sabbir Bin Abbas

Co-Founder

Help should be easy to find and easy to trust. My hope is that HEART keeps listening to the people of the coast, uses every tool we have to reach them faster, and shows openly how each contribution changes a life. Together, we can build a coast where no family is left behind when disaster strikes.

Co-founded HEART in 2021 and serves on its Executive Board as Info-Tech Affairs Secretary, leading HEART's website, IT and digital systems.

Meet our team

Our Journey

From Teknaf in 2021
to the UN in 2026

2021
HEART is born in Teknaf

Formed during the post-COVID-19 crisis. First projects: emergency food relief and health support for orphaned children.
2022
Government registration

Registered with the Department of Youth Development, Cox's Bazar (Reg. No. DYD/Teknaf-071). SRHR, protection and Ramadan food assistance projects.
2023
Rohingya youth & first awards

Projects with Rohingya refugee youth and adolescent girls; TekSHOI Humanitarian Leadership Award and Green Climate Leadership top 7.
2024
Recognised as an innovator

Policy Action Award (2nd), Best Innovative Organization, EuropeAid PADOR registration and the start of the SEDUAC education project.
2025
Youth voices on climate

Bangladesh Youth COP 2025, the National Youth Policy Dialogue, the 3ZERO Club Global Conference and World Rabies Day across Cox's Bazar.
2026
From Cox's Bazar to the UN

Delegation to UNCCD COP17 in Mongolia, the Global Volunteer Standards event and the International Year of the Woman Farmer.

Where We Work

Rooted in Cox's Bazar

We work in 7 of the 9 upazilas of Cox's Bazar district, with host communities and Rohingya refugees, and reach beyond when communities need us.

Teknaf
Ukhiya
Cox's Bazar Sadar
Ramu
Chakaria
Moheshkhali
Pekua

Chattogram Hill Tracts

Khagrachari, Rangamati and Bandarban, for vulnerable hill communities.

Dhaka

SRHR support for vulnerable families and adolescents in Ashulia.

Khulna

Ramadan food support for vulnerable families in Koyra upazila.

Where we work

HEART volunteers with a community in Cox's Bazar

7 upazilas

From the Field

Our Work in Pictures

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Organisations we have worked with

Institute of Informatics and Development

Registration certificate of HEART (original, Bengali), Department of Youth Development, Reg. No. DYD/Teknaf-071 — **Department of Youth Development** Reg. No. DYD/Teknaf-071 · tap to view the original certificate

Legal Status

A Government Registered Youth-Led Organisation

HEART is registered as a youth organisation with the Department of Youth Development, Cox's Bazar, Government of Bangladesh, under the Youth Organisation (Registration and Management) Act, 2015.

Organisation	Humanitarian Enhancement Aid for Resilient Transformation-HEART
Founded	2021, Cox's Bazar
Registration	No. DYD/Teknaf-071 (certificate serial 10571), dated 17 July 2022
Registering Authority	Department of Youth Development, Cox's Bazar, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
Under	Youth Organisation (Registration and Management) Act, 2015, Section 4, and Rule 3(4) of the Youth Organisation (Registration and Management) Rules, 2017
Registered Address	Moulvi Bazar, Hnila-4761, Teknaf, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh