About Paper Blues

How we started

Paper Blues began as a few friends with one plan: make sure the children around us had new clothes for Eid. We called ourselves PAPERBLUES.inc and painted our invitation on a banner:

Your brothers and sisters are waiting for this Eid with rotten hopes. Come along to share this Eid with them.

More friends joined every year. The Eid drive grew into flood relief, school visits, hospital visits and care for street animals. Today Paper Blues is a registered voluntary social welfare organisation, run by an executive committee.

Paper Blues was founded by Shakil Ahmed Shaj and Fahim Rahman Rafi.

What we work for

Our mission

To stand beside children, families and animals who have been left without help, and to meet their most basic needs in person: clothes, food, schooling and care.

Our vision

A Bangladesh where no child misses Eid, school or medical care because their family is poor.

Registration and accounts

Legal name

Paper Blues

Legal status

Voluntary social welfare organisation

Registered with

Department of Social Services, Government of Bangladesh

Registration number

3606

Registered office

20/A, East Shewrapara, Mirpur, Dhaka

Field office

55 T.B. Boundary Road, Moulvipara, Khulna

Governance

Run by an executive committee approved by the Department of Social Services

Accounts

Audited every year and submitted with an annual report to the Department of Social Services

Bank account

Held in the name of Paper Blues

Who runs Paper Blues