WaterAid Bangladesh is an International NGO and one of the lead actors in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector of Bangladesh. WaterAid is the #1 international non-governmental organization exclusively focused on clean water, hygiene and sanitation, and there are 780 million reasons we do what we do. That figure is the number of men, women and children who have yet to see, taste and enjoy access to an improved water source.

Engineering Student’s Association of Bangladesh (ESAB) is a non-profit volunteer organization that has established itself as the largest volunteer organizations in the country that works for the growing engineering student’s community of Bangladesh. This organization has been involved in numerous initiatives focused on engineering innovations from students. Jolkona is a part of ESAB’s focus to empower women in the STEM fields.

To provide the sustainable platform to the young innovators of Bangladesh ESAB has established the country’s first innovation incubation and accelerator called ‘ESAB Innovation Center’ with a vision to ‘inspiring imagination’ in 2015. EIC provides a small lab for the innovators, incubation mentorship, networking, funding and international collaboration for developing the solutions. Also, EIC works on policy reform activities and special government projects.