Stay Informed: BRAC in the Media

Bangladesh Women's Driving School
Channel 4 broadcast
17 May 2013
Bangladesh is one of the most dangerous places in the world to drive
a car. Reporter Clemency Burton-Hill and director Elizabeth C Jones take to the roads of Dhaka with a group of young women who are learning to be professional drivers against extraordinary odds: on top of dreadful drivers, teeming traffic and huge potholes, these learners are battling entrenched social taboos as they try to enter a profession almost entirely dominated by men.Insid......Read More

Dr. Babar Kabir's interview with BBC Radio 4 on savar tagedy
Senior Director of BRAC Disaster, Environment, and Climate Change
(DECC) programme, Dr. Babar Kabir, was recently interviewed live on
BBC Radio 4. Dr. Kabir discussed the various measures taken by BRAC,
under the coordination of DECC, for supporting and rehabilitating the victims of the recent Savar tragedy. Here's the recording on the interesting and informative interview conducted by Paddy O'Connell: soundcloud.com/bracworld/dr-babar-kabirs-interview-with Links: ------ [1] htt......Read More

BRAC to produce sunflower oil
The Daily Star article
13 May 2013

BRAC is set to introduce locally-produced sunflower oil by the end of the year, in a bid to expand market opportunities for farmers and reduce import dependency.The oil, to be marketed under the brand name of Shufola, would be produced from seeds cultivated by farmers mainly in the Khulna and Barisal divisions, Mahabub Hossain, executive director of the non-governmental organisation (NGO), said yesterday."Increased production and marketing of oi......Read More

Where Private School Is Not a Privilege
The New York Times opinion by Tina Rosenberg
08 May 2013
In the United States, private school is generally a privilege of the
rich. But in poorer nations, particularly in Africa and South Asia, families of all social classes send their children to private school. The private schools within reach of the poor, however -- usually a single classroom a woman runs in her house -- are not a big improvement. But two school systems -- Bridge International Academies in Kenya and BRAC in Ba......Read More

Reshaping the global village
Insightnews.com article by Mfon Archibong and Dr. Anita Davis-DeFoe
04 May 2013

Mfon Archibong, President and CEO of Grace Restoration International, explains the concept of GRI Micro-enterprise to community women.(Photos courtesy of GRI)In the words of Dr. Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), one of the largest non-governmental educational organizations in the world, now reaching nearly 140 million people in nine countries. "We th......Read More

Bangladesh Needs Strong Unions, Not Outside Pressure
The New York Times opinion by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
29 April 2013

BANGLADESH, my country, is again in tears. Last week in Savar, a suburb of Dhaka, the capital, a poorly constructed building that housed garment factories and other businesses collapsed. More than 300 have been confirmed dead, and the final death toll could well exceed 700. Bangladesh is no stranger to disasters, both natural and man-made. Still, this is one of the saddest chapters since we won our independence in 1......Read More

'Employment key to poverty eradication'
New Vision, Uganda article by Patrick Jaramogi
29 April 2013

Poverty eradication and financial empowerment can only be address if issues of unemployment are tackled Brac founder and Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed said on Monday. "Countries in Sub Saharan Africa such as Uganda have issues of poverty and low literacy. We want to help Uganda get its people out of poverty, but this needs joint effort," he said. Abed, the World's renowned leading Non-Governmental Organisation (......Read More

A road map toward achieving nutrition for all
Dhaka Tribune article by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
22 April 2013

This is an urgent call to action. We must work together to solve a problem that has many aspects.As we approach the target date of 2015, Bangladesh can be proud of its progress toward the UN's eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Some goals, such as gender parity in primary and secondary education, have been met ahead of schedule, while others, such as poverty reduction and maternal health, are on track. We've seen......Read More

We've Made Staggering Progress in Maternal Health in Bangladesh. Where Next?
03 April 2013
By Dr. Kaosar Afsana, Director of BRAC's health, nutrition and
population programme
This post was originally published on the BRAC blog. Not long ago, Bangladesh had one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. In rural Bangladesh, an expectant mother's chance of survival was grim, with 500 to 600 women for every 100,000 live births in the country dying from complications during childbirth in 1990. In the last 20 years, Bangladesh has made progress of......Read More

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