BRAC
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BRAC Bank’s TARA clients to obtain special discount offers at Nadia Furniture
Oct 19, 2018BRAC Bank Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Nadia Furniture Limited. BRAC TARA Debit/Credit card holders will enjoy 10% discount on all products at the Nadia Furniture stores Limited. TARA customers will get an exclusive... -
WASH activities tackle challenge in coastal area in Bangladesh
Oct 19, 2018Climate change is increasingly making it difficult to implement sustainable water sanitation and hygiene programmes in the coastal and haor regions. Increasing water salinity along the coast, increase in arsenic level, rising bacterial contamination and lack... -
Workshop about Prevention of Money Laundering by BRAC Bank held in Feni
Oct 15, 2018Prominent Bangladeshi BRAC Bank Limited organized a workshop on “Prevention of Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism” in Feni. A total of 126 officials of the Feni and Noakhali region participated in the daylong workshop... -
Innovative Justice Challenge in Dhaka
Oct 13, 2018Aniket Doegar, a young innovator from India, through innovative use of technology has designed a new way to reach important messages to the poor and ultra poor communities. The common theme of the messages is that... -
BRAC opens first two-storey learning centre for Rohingya children in Kutupalong
Oct 12, 2018The two-storey structure, made mainly of bamboo and other natural ingredients, stands two feet above ground, which means rainwater won’t stand. The architecture follows indigenous Rohingya building traditions, allowing better resilience to extreme weather, ventilation and... -
Sir Fazle Calls for stepping up funding and innovations to tackle TB at UNGA high level meeting
Oct 2, 2018The international community must increase investments in the invention and application of new tools and treatments, such as vaccines, diagnostics and drugs to successfully fight tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest communicable disease. BRAC chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan... -
BRAC urges stronger int’l dialogues, actions to support the Rohingya
Sep 11, 2018Ongoing international dialogues and actions to support the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals sheltered in Bangladesh need to be stronger to ensure a safe and meaningful future for the more than 500,000 children from this community. The... -
SINGER and BRAC jointly started providing ‘free of cost tailoring course’ to 5000 underpriviledged women across Bangladesh
Aug 5, 2018SINGER & BRAC have jointly started providing ‘free of cost tailoring course’ to 5000 underprivileged women across Bangladesh. As part of this, a total 44 women received certificates at Katlapur at Savar on July 26, 2018,... -
BRAC published its 2017 annual report
Jul 28, 2018Investing in next generation and eliminating extreme poverty are at the heart of Bangladesh’s pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and BRAC, the biggest development organisation in the world, has been a strong supporter. Senior... -
BRAC launched Urban Innovation Challenge in Bangladesh
Jul 27, 2018Around 55 million people live in the cities and other urban areas of Bangladesh. With the ever-increasing pressure of people bound for urban areas, the problems in urban living are rising too. Social development organization BRAC...
