1. Visions of Empowerment
BRAC Photo Exhibition

2. In control
A professional driver- one of the first batch of graduates from the BRAC Driving School- at BRAC
Centre
BRAC has pioneered to train professional female drivers in its newly established driving
school in 2012. This has opened a new career option for young women of Bangladesh

3. Gracefully assertive
Women moved into non-traditional livelihood as BRAC programmes expanded

4. Reeling threads
Women reeling silk threads at the Ayesha Abed Foundation in Manikganj
Ayesha Abed Foundation began by supporting rural women through sericulture. Gradually,
expanded its operation and established a brand for rural crafts

5. Learning to speak out
A shebika or barefoot lawyer uses pictorial charts during a Human Rights and Legal Education
(HRLE) class in Manikganj, Bangladesh
These 12 day HRLE classes educate women on the basic legal knowledge related to dowry, child
marriage, divorce, and land etc so that they can protect themselves and their community from
injustice. More than 37 lakh women have attended these classes

6. An Army of Caregivers
A health volunteer refers a pregnant woman by phone to the government hospital in Mymensingh
BRAC has 92,000 health volunteers across Bangladesh providing basic health care services -
including ante and post natal health care- at the door steps of 100 million people

7. A simple solution (‘Ek mutth goor....’)
A BRAC Health Volunteer teaching a mother how to make oral saline at home
Starting in 1979, BRAC revolutionised the prevention of diarrhoea – the leading cause of the high
child mortality rate in Bangladesh – by establishing its Oral Therapy Extension Program and
reaching every household with the preparation of home-made saline

8. Good health for all
A BRAC health volunteer discussing the importance of micro-nutrients in fighting anaemia and
stunted growth among children in Chankanda village of Jamalpur district
BRAC is working to prevent and control communicable and non-communicable diseases such as
tuberculosis, malaria, chronic respiratory illness etc. in Bangladesh and eight other countries

9. Time to learn
Girls in Gondohali village, Rajshahi, are having fun learning how to use a computer
BRAC’s Social and Financial Empowerment of Adults (SOFEA) has 360 clubs around the country
giving rural girls (11-21 years) a chance to learn computing, literacy and other activities

10. Growing together
Girls in an adolescent development club in Uganda are learning basic life skills
Over 260,000 young people around the world receive skills and social awareness development
training along with microloans from BRAC’s adolescent development programmes to secure
their future

11. Coming together
People of Mangalkot in Jessore building a road to their village with assistance from the local
Union Council
Over 600,000 rural people have organised themselves through BRAC’s Community
Empowerment Programme to reclaim their civil rights

12. It’s never too late
Women attending an adult education programme class in mid 70’s
BRAC’s first education project was targeted to adults, later BRAC introduced worlds’
largest non-formal primary education programme. It has moved on to secondary and
tertiary education

13. Good Samaritans
BRAC health volunteer taking a pregnant woman to the Maternal Child Welfare Centre,
Gaibandha
25 million people in Bangladesh are served through BRAC’s
maternal and child health services

14. Chicken and egg story
Khadija Haji collects eggs from her family poultry farm in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Khadija learned how to manage poultry farm from her mother who took BRAC
model poultry farmer training. More than 63,000 farmers in Tanzania have been trained under
this programme

15. A harvest of plenty
A farmer at a BRAC Seed Farm in Sherpur, Bogra, Bangladesh
BRAC runs nine seed farms and two seed processing plants in Bangladesh as part of its
effort to increase agricultural production through better quality seeds

16. Protecting livestock
Poultry vaccinations being delivered by a Bangladeshi woman trained by BRAC back in 80’s
Very soon into its journey, BRAC recognized poultry as a source of income for the landless
poor, especially women, and accordingly a decision was made to train women members of
the microfinance groups in vaccination work for a fee

17. Securing assets
Community worker Aminata Sheriff gives poultry vaccinations in the Kondatu Section of Port Loko
BRAC opened its offices in Sierra Leone in 2008 and started integrated programmes in
2009. BRAC Sierra Leone continues to grow and is expected by now to have reached more than
18,000 microfinance members – a majority of whom are women

18. Rearing white babies
A poultry rearer holding a parent chicken at BRAC Poultry Rearing Centre in Magura
BRAC has contributed to the overall growth of the poultry industry in Bangladesh by
introducing local production of chicken feed, vaccination and better breed of chicks;
creating income-generating activities for millions of rural poor

19. Breeding better
An agronomist at BRAC’s Tissue Culture Lab in Gazipur, Bangladesh
BRAC has two research centres dedicated to developing better crop breeds and
introducing improved agricultural practises

20. Nurturing
Jahanara Begum with her daughter and the goat she received from BRAC’s TUP programme in
Kisorganj Sadar
BRAC’s Targeting the Ultra Poor (TUP) programme is a ground breaking initiative designed
especially for the people living below the poverty line to help improve their condition. Over
3.5 Lakh families have received training and productive assets through this programme

21. Vessel of hope
Children of remote Haor areas in Sunamgonj lining up to enter their boat school
BRAC has opened 100 boat schools to deliver basic primary education to the children of
flash flood affected and hard to reach areas

22. We shall overcome
Afsana, a student of a BRAC pre-primary school, performing a drama as part of her daily class
activities in Bera of Nowshera, Pakistan
BRAC has over 13,000 pre-primary schools globally for children coming from under-
privileged background

23. Giving Back
Ms. Hakima, a former BRAC school graduate, with her students in a BRAC Community
Based Feeder School (CBFS) in Syed Ismail Bullehi village in Balkh Province, Afghanistan
BRAC runs over 650 schools in Afghanistan under the education programme. The CBFS project
under the education programme prepares drop out boys and girls aged between 7-9 years for
entering into the formal school

24. The daring ones..
BRAC staff from Tanzania.....

25. The daring ones..
BRAC staff from Bangladesh...

26. The daring ones..
BRAC staff from Pakistan...

27. The daring ones..
BRAC staff from South Sudan......all travelling long distances to serve

28. Mother and Child
A client of BRAC’s microfinance programme, working from her home in Rangamati, Bangladesh
BRAC has 55 lakh micro-borrowers worldwide with a cumulative loan disbursement of USD
9.73 billion

29. Man with a dream
BRAC founder and chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed spending time with children at a BRAC
school in Korail Slum, Dhaka

30. Awaiting a better future
An Afghan school girl at a BRAC Aflatoon school in Kabul, Afghanistan
Distinct from BRAC’s primary education schools, Aflatoon is an adolescent development
programme working with the goal of improving the quality of life of vulnerable adolescents,
especially girls

31. Coping with the storm
Shamsunnahar, a school teacher at BRAC school in Binoderpara village in the Jamalpur district,
describing precautionary measures to her students about disasters and cyclones
BRAC’s Disaster, Environment and Climate Change programme has trained more than 330,000
community people making them aware and better prepared to face natural calamities

32. Getting ready
Children attending a BRAC Non Formal Pre Primary school (NFPE) in Charabagh village in Savar
Thana, Bangladesh
Starting out in 1997, BRAC’s pre-primary schools have prepared 39 lakh children for primary
schools through the 1-year course

33. Dancing together
Performing children at a BRAC school in Joypurhat
1.14 million children are receiving primary and pre-primary education in 38,000 BRAC
Schools worldwide. BRAC’s Children with Special Needs programme works to ensure every
child’s participation in the mainstream education

34. ‘Haate khori’; First time
Using a blackboard on the first day of school, a young boy learns to write numbers in a BRAC Non
Formal Primary school in Manderia village in Torid, South Sudan
Many of these children have never attended a school in years due to decades of wars,
conflicts and insecurity in South Sudan

35. Act to change
Performance of a popular theatre in Jessore
Part of its Community Empowerment Programme, BRAC has pioneered the use of popular
theatre to deliver effective messages at the grassroots level to promote positive social change.
BRAC’s 376 popular theatre info-tain 4.3 million people every year

36. Rebuilding lives
An Afghan girl plays near a tube-well in her neighbourhood in Kabul, Afghanistan
Over 10,000 tube wells have been installed in war torn Afghanistan involving the
community through the National Solidarity Programme. BRAC is working in Afghanistan
since 2002 with interventions in health, education, agriculture and economic development

37. Weaving hope
A woman embroidering a saree at the Ayesha Abed Foundation in Manikganj
In 1978, BRAC started an initiative to support rural women in producing Nakshi
Kantha. This led to Aarong- the enterprise. Aarong nurtures and promotes a network
of 65000 artisans throughout the country bringing traditional crafts to the global
consumer

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