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Bangladesh General insurance company limited (BGIC) observed the 12th Death Anniversary of Begum Fawzia Samad, wife of late MA Samad, a renowned insurance legend and the founder of BGIC on Tuesday.
People will continue to remember her work as the founder and editor of `Minar’ the first Bangla children’s magazine in 1949. She exhibited extraordinary courage in 1971 by hiding freedom fighters and their arms at her home during the Libera-tion War, according to a press statement.
She established a free community school `Kushumkoli’ and founded other humanitarian facilities as the longest-serving president (1973-2011) of `Dhaka Ladies Club’ which continues to serve the community.
Fawzia Samad was born in a respectable Muslim family in Sylhet in 1929 and breathed her last on April 25, 2011, in a hospi-tal in Singapore. She was the mother of Towhid Samad, chairman of BGIC, Fancy Samad, Tamju Samad and Sabrina Samad.
