About Us
Welcome to the Neel Foring Foundation, where youth-led energy meets systemic change.
We are a forward-thinking social development organization dedicated to equipping the next generation with the tools to tackle climate change, pioneer social innovation, and defend human rights.
By empowering young minds to think creatively and act courageously, we transform local challenges into sustainable, global solutions.
Every program puts young people in charge of the workshop, the app, the campaign — not on the receiving end of one designed elsewhere.
Climate, technology, human rights, and leadership aren't separate departments. They're the same fight, worked from four different angles at once.
A river cleanup in one town and a carbon policy campaign are the same instinct at different scales. We keep both honest with specifics, not slogans.
Building the leaders who build everything else.
Climate action rooted in the communities living it first.
Low-cost, local, and built by the people who need it.
Defending rights isn't abstract — it's a legal clinic, a hotline, a hearing.
Advisors and board members bringing decades of experience in journalism, media development, and humanitarian response to how we build.
Advisor
Journalist, media development professional, and press freedom advocate with nearly 30 years of experience. His work focuses on journalism training, media development, safety and security, and freedom of expression. As a freelance journalist he has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, Anadolu Agency, and other international media. Recipient of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.
Board Member
Mafia Akter is a Bangladeshi humanitarian communication and media development professional with over a decade of experience in community media, journalism, and humanitarian response. As Project Officer and Trainer at DW Akademie, she supports media development and community engagement in the Rohingya refugee response in Cox's Bazar, mentoring youth and women volunteers and promoting social cohesion through participatory media. She holds a Professional Master's in Peace, Conflict and Human Rights from the University of Dhaka. Her research focuses on community media, refugee communication, peacebuilding, women's participation, and humanitarian communication. She authored a Springer (2024) book chapter on Rohingya radio.
Board Member
Project Manager for the Displacement and Dialogue Project by DW Akademie. He is currently looking after a team of 16 community reporters from Rohingya and Bangladeshi host community youth in Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar. He is responsible for the editorial check on content and also the platform they use for the broadcasting of their multimedia team called Voice of Palong. Shihab himself worked more than a decade as a journalist in national media outlets, both print and television.
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