Keeping the promise
Bangladesh, Malawi and Nepal have been highlighted in a new UNICEF report as three countries on track to meet their child survival targets, incorporated in MDG 4 that aims to reduce under-5 deaths...
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Bangladesh’s Disaster Superwomen
A low-lying country whose image is often tarnished by poverty, political instability and natural disasters, Bangladesh deserves due recognition for the beauty of its landscape, its rich cultural...
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Female Drivers Seeking Employment
25 female graduates from the first two batches of BRAC Driving School are now officially available to be hired as chauffeurs. These drivers, who have received extensive training on driving by BRAC...
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RTI Act: Power to people
People of certain five Upazilas of Bangladesh have recently started writing much more applications than usual. In last one year, they have written more than 1000 application and that too seeking...
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Low cost, high expectations
In session at a BRAC Primary School in the Korail slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo: Oscar Abello/BRAC) The conditions into which a child is born affects not only her future opportunity, but also her...
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An interview with Babar Kabir on the BRAC WASH programme
This article was posted on IRC International Water and Sanitation Center blog by Joep Verhagen, Manager, South Asia & Latin America Team, IRC. Sitting opposite to me is Babar Kabir – Senior...
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This article was posted on IRC International Water and Sanitation Center website. “What is good about the monitoring system that we are using is that it is participatory so that respondents also get...
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BRAC’s ultra-poor program migrates to the city
A family with a four-year-old wearing a pair of glasses provided as part of BRAC’s urban ultra-poor program. (Photo: BRAC/Rod Dubitsky) It can seem so easy. Give a slum-dweller a three-wheeled vehicle....
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To train, or not to train
Momena, a participant in BRAC’s program targeting the ultra-poor in Bangladesh. Variously called targeting the ultra-poor, just TUP, or more famously the graduation program (which we’re not always sure...
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The transformative potential of the poor
Elain Konah (seated, center) provides poultry vaccinations to her neighbors in Kakata, Liberia. (Photo: BRAC/Jake Lyell) This post originally appeared on HuffingtonPost.com. You may have heard of the...
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In this BRAC Bottom-Up Storytelling video, meet Sabina Yasmin, age 11. Visiting one of BRAC’s one-room schoolhouses is a near magical experience, as children from poor backgrounds show they have what...
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Getting hygiene messages with your tea
This article was posted on irc.nl by Ingeborg Krukkert, programme officer sanitation and hygiene for the Asia Regional Programme at IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and working with BRAC...
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Here’s what happens when microfinance grows up
Modern microcredit, born in Bangladesh, was hailed as an innovative poverty fix when it appeared on the global radar. The United Nations dubbed 2005 “the year of microcredit,” and the following year,...
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Barefoot lawyers bring legal empowerment to the poor
Barefoot lawyer Hasna Hena explaining family laws to her community group. A new paper from the World Bank examines BRAC’s human rights and legal services (HRLS) program, making a case for the link...
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M&Ms and slow ideas, or what a simple check can do
Making a list, checking it twice: BRAC’s oral rehydration program in the 1980s I was psyched to read about David Lee Roth and his famous brown M&Ms in Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto over...
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“She wields her wrench like a microphone …”
When people talk about BRAC, often the first person they’ll mention is the founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, who sold his apartment in London in 1972 and used the money for relief in post-war Bangladesh....
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“Give me the chainsaw.” How one mother survived Rana Plaza
Last year, I met a few of the Bangladeshi garment workers who survived Rana Plaza. I heard their stories, and today, on the one-year anniversary, I feel the need to share one of them. This is really a...
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Introducing… The Karate Girls of Bangladesh
Meet Sonya –an 18 year-old girl living in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. Sonya lives a typical Bengali lifestyle; she enjoys the park with her friends and helps her parents with chores. But Sonya isn’t...
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Letting girls grow up to be who they want to be
According to UNICEF, Bangladesh ranks second in terms of under 18 marriages in the world. Child marriage has become a crisis due to its pervasiveness. The problem seems to be more acute in rural areas...
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The transformative potential of the poor
Elain Konah (seated, center) provides poultry vaccinations to her neighbors in Kakata, Liberia. (Photo: BRAC/Jake Lyell) This post originally appeared on HuffingtonPost.com. You may have heard of the...
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