The Acid Survivors Foundation is a Bangladeshi organisation dedicated to raising awareness and preventing acid attacks and providing survivors with medical and legal aid. It has employed a holistic approach towards acid related crime that has enabled the foundation to reduce the number of attacks considerably.
The Foundation was founded by Dr John Morrison OBE in premises subsidised by the British High Commission and British Women's Association on May 12, 1999 with substantial support from UNICEF and the Canadian.
ASF initially began as a service delivery organisation. Currently, it is in the process of moving towards a rights-based development organisation.
Bangladesh's ASF has subsequently been used as a model organisation for the establishment of ASFs in Uganda, Cambodia, and Pakistan, all of which are sustained by Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) also headed by Sir John Morrison.
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