Brac wins world's largest humanitarian prize
Brac, a development organisation, has won the world's largest humanitarian prize for helping more than 110 million poor people with microcredit and basic services.
The $1.5 million (euro1.1 million) Conrad N Hilton Humanitarian Prize goes each year to an organisation chosen for making extraordinary contributions to alleviating human sufferings.
Brac Founder Fazle Hasan Abed yesterday said the prize money would be used for anti-poverty programmes in Southern Sudan, says an AP report.
Brac, founded in February 1972, has acted as both the initiator and catalyst for many such innovations and changes. It has expanded its programmes to Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda and Sudan.
Its unique, holistic approach to poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor encompasses a range of core programmes in economic and social development, health, education, and human rights and legal services.
Now Brac has more than 100,000 staff, the majority of which are women, reaching more than 110 million people with its development interventions in Asia and Africa.
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