Badhan (blood donation organization)

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| name = Badhan

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| native_name = বাঁধন

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| formation = 24 October 1997{{cite web |title=About Badhan |url=https://www.badhan.org/page/about-us |website=Badhan |access-date=2025-03-04}}

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| founding_location = University of Dhaka

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| type = Blood donation organization

| status = Voluntary organization

| purpose = Free blood donation

| headquarters = Teacher-Student Centre

| location_city = Dhaka

| location_country = Bangladesh

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| language = Bengali

| leader_title = Current Officer-in-Charge

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| leader_title2 = President

| leader_name2 = Md. Shamim Gazi

| leader_title3 = General Secretary

| leader_name3 = Shakil Ahmed

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| num_volunteers = 64,000

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| registration_id = DHA-06152

| website = https://badhan.org/

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Badhan is a service-oriented voluntary blood donation organization in Bangladesh.{{Cite web |date=2015-09-11 |title=A Humanitarian Appeal |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/campus/humanitarian-appeal-140917 |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}} Currently, it operates across 55 districts in the country through 83 educational institutions, 12 zones, 142 units, and 4 families. The organization’s vision is to create a society where thousands of undergraduate and postgraduate students are always ready to donate blood promptly for patients, thereby striving to save countless endangered lives. Since its inception, it has worked with its own spirit and ideals despite numerous challenges.

It is a completely non-political, non-communal, non-regional, non-ethnic, secular, and voluntary social organization.

Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka and Emeritus Professor A. K. Azad Chowdhury said about Badhan,{{cite news|url=https://www.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8D-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A7%A9%E0%A7%A6%E0%A7%AD-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B7-%E0%A6%A5%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%81%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87|title=From Room 307 of Shahidullah Hall, Badhan Spreads Across the Country|last=Alam|first=Sheikh Sabiha|date=14 June 2022|work=Prothom Alo}}

Badhan is an organization that the country can take pride in. The way this student-led organization continues its work entirely on voluntary effort is undoubtedly commendable.

Over the past twenty-seven years, Badhan, the voluntary blood donors’ organization, has supplied approximately 977,000 bags of pure blood. Simultaneously, it has successfully determined the blood groups of 2.436 million people free of charge.{{cite web |last= |first= |date=25 October 2024 |title=27th Anniversary Celebration of Badhan at JU |url=https://www.probashirdiganta.com/news/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%81%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%AD-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A8 |url-status=live |access-date=7 February 2025 |language=bn}}{{cite web|last=Rubel|first=Sirajul Islam|date=24 October 2022|title=Voluntary Blood Donation: Badhan Stands by People for 25 Years|url=https://bangla.thedailystar.net/youth/education/campus/news-408026|url-status=live|access-date=|website=The Daily Star}}

The organization has its own app. The Badhan app already includes information on approximately 64,000 blood donors from 58 districts of the country, with this number growing daily. All 64,000 of these willing blood donors are students from universities and colleges.{{cite web|last=Staff|first=Own|date=2023-11-09|language=bn|title=Blood Easily Available Through ‘Badhan’ App|url=https://www.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/capital/ooctbf0fb2|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226111301/https://www.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/capital/ooctbf0fb2|archive-date=2024-02-26|access-date=2024-03-07|website=Prothom Alo}}