BRAC, founded in 1972 by Sir Fazle H. Abed, is a non-profit organization with over 102,000 employees and a vision for a world free from exploitation and discrimination. It focuses on empowering communities through various programs, including education, public health, and economic development, and has provided significant assistance in areas such as microloans to women, disaster relief, and educational support for disadvantaged children. BRAC operates numerous schools and health services, emphasizing inclusiveness and community involvement in their initiatives.

1. Presented by:

2.  Founder: Sir Fazle
Hasa Abed
 Founded: 1972
 Type: Non-profit
 Employees: 102281
 Revenue: 30,816,17
6,848 Taka (2011)
(US$422,139,409)

3.  Vision
A world free from all forms of exploitation and
discrimination where everyone has the
opportunity to realize their potential.
 Mission
To empower people and communities in
situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social
injustice. Our interventions aim to achieve large
scale, positive changes through economic and
social programs that enable men and women to
realize their potential.

4.  Innovation
 Integrity
 Inclusiveness
 Effectiveness

5.  Economic development
 Education
 Public health
 Social development
 Disaster relief

6.  $1.5 billion in loans
over the past thirty
years
 90 percent of BRACs
microloans to women
 Focus youth
employment
 Aarong
 BRAC Dairy and Food
Project
 BRAC Salt

7.  Non-Formal Primary
Education program
 37,500 Primary
Schools
 24,750 Pre-Primary
schools
 3 million children
 65% of whom are
girls
 Drop-out rate of less
than 5%

8.  Provide service to 31
million rural people
 70,000 community
health volunteers
 18,000 health
workers
 Deliver door-to-door
health care services
 37 static health
centers
 (NTP) covering 93
million people in 42
districts

9.  Focuses on building
human and socio-
political assets of the
poor.
 Institution building.
 Awareness raising.
 Training and
collective social
mobilization.
 Popular Theatre
 Human Rights and
Legal Education
(HRLE) classes

10.  largest NGO responses
to Cyclone Sidr.
 Distributed emergency
relief to over 900,000
survivors.
 Provided medical care
to over 60,000 victims.
 Secured safe supplies
of drinking water.
 Now focusing on long-
term rehabilitation.

19.  BRAC Primary School (BPS)
 BRAC Adolescent Primary School (BAPS)
 Educational Support Program (ESP)
 Urban Cluater School (UCS)
 Education for Indigenous Children School
(EICS)

20.  Single Rented Room
 30-33 Students
 One Local Female
Teacher
 Block Teaching
 4 Years cycle
 Age limit: 8-10 years
old
 Full National
Curriculum

21.  Age Limit: 11-14 years old children
 Target Group: Drop-out Children
 30-33 students in one class
 Single Local Female Teacher

22.  Started at 1991 with
other NGOs
 Target Group:
Disadvantaged
Children who are not
covered by BEP
 Schools are usually
operated to remote
areas with higher
concentration of ethnic
students

23.  Cluster Schools for urban areas
 Were designed as BPS or BAPS Schools
 Classes are held in Shift--- Morning and
Afternoon
 Ensures hygienic environment, clean water
and toilet facilities as most of the slums have
no proper sanitation system

24.  Established at 2001
 Adapted BPS model
 Model suits the needs of the indigenous
communities
 Their language of instructions is the native
language of the students
 Employs two teacher, one from each
community

25.  Before setting up schools cooperation from
the community is needed in
 selection of location,
 hiring or building school house,
 selection of the right kind of people.
 Two formal ways to involve community with
BRAC school---
 Participation of parents in monthly parents’ meeting
 School Management Committee