Friends of Khasdobir exists to support the work of KYAG in Sylhet, Bangladesh.  The project was founded in 1984 by Harun Ahmed a respected local businessman, and Peter East MBE, who had just retired from the staff of Toc H after 16 years working with the Bangladeshi community in the East End of London.  Together they encouraged a few young people from the village to sit on the ground and teach young children to read and write and they found funds to make small grants to elderly, destitute widows.  The project has grown from these humble beginnings.  Both the founders have since died but the work has expanded and is run entirely by a committee of local people.

Friends of Khasdobir was founded by a group of friends of Peter East in the UK and by other people who had visited the project.  It operated originally under the umbrella of the British charity Toc H and became an independent charity in 2006.