$25,000 Citibank grant for Brac schools
Citigroup Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Citigroup, contributed 25,000 US dollar to Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (Brac) to support the reconstruction of schools under Brac's 2004 flood rehabilitation programme in Bangladesh, says a press release.The flood in 2004 had caused extensive damage to educational infrastructures and educational materials disrupting the education of hundreds of thousands of students. A total of 9,855 Brac schools and 1,799, Kishori Kendros got severely affected in this catastrophe. Mamun Rashid, chief executive officer of Citibank Bangladesh, presented the grant to Fazle Hasan Abed, Chairperson of Brac. Brac Executive Director Abdul Muyeed Chowdhuiry was present.
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