International Autism Foundation
Autism Foundation
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Our story

A foundation born of blessings.

Since 2013, we have carried a single, unhurried promise — to walk with divine children with autism and their mothers, in the quiet villages of Tangail and across Bangladesh.

Children at the Black & White Autism School campus in Madhupur

§ 01 — Aim & Objectives

To build a society that holds every child.

"Peace established to build our society autism-friendly — providing Special Education, Health Care and Nutrition for our Divine Children with Autism. Need your blessings and cooperation."
I.

Establish peace

A society where difference is met with dignity, not fear.

II.

Educate, heal, nourish

Three pillars — schooling, health and nutrition — delivered without charge.

III.

Build the village

A self-sufficient autism-friendly settlement on our own land.

Masud Rana Black & White — Chairman of the International Autism Foundation
PhD Researcher · Autism

§ 02 — Chairman & Chief Executive

Masud Rana Black & White.

Founder, chairman and chief educationist — Masud Rana is a PhD researcher on autism who has devoted the past twelve years to the quiet work of the Foundation. He leads, teaches, and receives every family that arrives at our gate.

§ 03 — What we believe

Four quiet convictions we do not compromise.

Every child is divine.

We do not say special needs. We say divine children — because their being is not a defect to correct.

Slow is the only speed.

Our classrooms have no bell. Our calendar has no deadline. The child sets the pace.

The jungle is our classroom.

Children heal in open skies, under trees, beside rivers. We teach with the land, not against it.

We are funded by grace.

No corporate sponsors. No conditions. Only the quiet gifts of those who choose not to look away.

§ 04 — The journey

From a single classroom to a village in the making.

Read the milestones from bottom to top — the foundation is still being written.

2013 — The seed

Foundation founded

Masud Rana Black & White opens the first doors of the International Autism Foundation in Madhupur.

2016 — The school

Black & White Autism School College University established

A campus of humanity inside the Madhupur jungle for divine children with autism.

2019 — The clinic

Monthly free health camps begin

Visiting doctors, dentists and therapists start offering free monthly care to children and mothers.

2021 — The farms

Community kitchens & land cultivation

Our own produce begins feeding the school — food as medicine, grown with the children and their families.

2023 — The city

Dhaka office opens

Black & White Point at 31 Sheikh Shaheb Bazar Avenue becomes our urban liaison.

Today — The village

Autism Village being built

The long dream: a self-sufficient autism-friendly settlement with classrooms, clinics, farms and family housing.

§ 05 — Our people

The hands that hold the work.

Masud Rana Black & White
Masud Rana Black & White
Chairman & Chief Executive
Lead educator
Lead Divine Teacher
Special Education Lead
Health camp lead
Medical Lead
Monthly Health Camps

Our divine teachers, nurses and volunteers live in and around Madhupur. Their names and faces change with the seasons; their devotion does not.

Join the work

Twelve years in. A hundred to go.

The next chapter of the Foundation is still empty pages. Come write a line.