BRAC USA Stories

Patrick Vaughan (far left) and Sandra Kabir (2nd from the right) with Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, BRAC Founder and Chairperson, and BRAC UK Trustees – London, 2010. We are deeply saddened by the death of Professor John Patrick Vaughan, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine...

Through the 300,000 USD grant (255,000 Euros), BRAC will develop a programme that aims to empower three million women smallholder farmers across Bangladesh, Liberia, Tanzania, and Uganda to lift themselves and their families out of vulnerability by 2030. Photo credit: Alison Wright Bangkok | July 2, 2025 — In a significant move to deliver results for communities...

Our thoughts are with BRAC’s 510 colleagues, our programme participants, and partners in Myanmar, where a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Friday, March 28th just before 1pm local time. YANGON, MYANMAR – Our thoughts are with BRAC’s 510 colleagues, our programme participants, and partners in Myanmar, where a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck just before 1pm local time on Friday,...

Millions of people in Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Liberia, and the Philippines are impacted by U.S. Government cuts to BRAC projects. DHAKA, BANGLADESH – U.S. foreign assistance programme terminations, and announced overseas aid cuts in Switzerland, The Netherlands and more recently, the U.K. are exacerbating the challenges BRAC and other organisations in the Global South confront. Millions...

BRAC UK, the European affiliate of one of the world’s largest development organisations, is proud to announce its transformation into BRAC Europe. This change marks a significant step in BRAC’s mission to create a world free from inequality by expanding its reach and deepening partnerships across the European continent. With over 700 million people still...