Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Friday, June 20, 2008

BRAC and the Girl Effect

We've recently collaborated with Nike's Girl Effect to launch BRAC's Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) Program in Uganda and Tanzania. Two BRAC ELA members in Bangladesh were featured in Girl Effect videos about the importance of investing in girls:





Click here to learn more about BRAC's programs for teenage girls in Uganda and to invest in a girl, starting your own girl effect.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Creative Giving: Is Bigger Better?

In the June 2 issue of Forbes magazine, David Armstrong writes about BRAC founder Dr. Fazle Abed and BRAC's accomplishments in Bangladesh and its mission in Africa:

Using market incentives, Fazle Hasan Abed built the largest antipoverty group in the world and helped pull Bangladesh out of the ashes. Now he wants to take on Africa.


Click here to read the full article.