BRAC has ensured access to quality, inclusive and playful learning for children across Bangladesh for four decades.
Our schools reach children who might otherwise be left behind — including girls, children with disabilities, and those from ethnic minority groups. More than 14.7 million children have graduated from our pre-primary and primary schools to date. We operate a wide range of schools, from pre-primary to secondary level, as well as schools which focus specifically on bridging learning gaps and reconnecting students to government schools. In addition to providing education, we also work in close partnership with the government, local communities and private and non-government partners to improve the education landscape nationwide.
unlocking potential
14.7 million
pre-primary and primary students educated
53%
of BRAC students are girls
3,903
schools and community learning centres currently operating
Classrooms that celebrate potential
EXPLORE IMPACT STORIES
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‘They marry off girls because they are a burden’: The battle to save Bangladesh’s child brides
As researchers find that more than 60 per cent of Bangladeshi families practise child marriage, campaigners fight to keep girls in education.
As Bangladesh endured the longest school lockdown in the world during the Covid-19 pandemic, BRAC introduced an accelerated learning programme to bring pupils back up to speed. -
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Where Private School Is Not a Privilege
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. But two school systems — Bridge International Academies in Kenya and BRAC in Bangladesh — are offering something different: they are making decent education accessible to the world’s poorest on a giant scale.
BRAC designed its school system to address all the reasons children didn’t attend schools. Teachers are female. The schools aggressively recruit girls, who make up two-thirds of the student body. Ethnic minorities study in their own language for the first few years; disabled children receive free surgery and medical devices. -
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The Recurring Power of a Flexible System of Schools
Locally responsive and adaptable approaches to education are both more easily scalable and more resilient in crises.
BRAC’s flexible approach to designing programmes within the school system design has features that make it ready to scale—with rented facilities, teachers recruited and trained locally, and regular assessment and addressing of changing learning needs. -
All of the activities, materials, and contents in these boats have been designed in a way so that children will have fun, will enjoy learning, will be curious about learning and through that hopefully be inspired to continue their education.”
Safi Rahman Khan
Director, BRAC Education programme, BRAC
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