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A new lens on youth employment
By Masud Rana During my thirteen-year tenure at BRAC and BRAC international, I have seen poverty in different contexts. Regardless of where I was, I noticed two key factors behind poverty, especially ... Read More
Creating an inclusive society for sexual minorities
By Anjali Sarker In 2012, the BRAC Social Innovation Lab launched its first idea box, a simple way to source ideas from the field staff. Currently there are idea boxes in twenty-two out of twenty-seve... Read More
Innovating for the base of the pyramid – is making a profit wrong?
By Anjali Sarker Does serving the poor and making profit contradict each other? This heated debate has been going on for a long time, raising criticisms and doubts about the ideal position of a develo... Read More
Extending credit for health costs
By Moonmoon Shehrin “I was about to sell my cow to finance the expenses of my gall-bladder surgery” – A client who took a medical treatment loan “My daughter had high fever for several d... Read More
The ‘normal’ ones?
This op-ed was originally posted on bdnews24.com, at this link: http://opinion.bdnews24.com/2014/09/16/the-normal-ones/ By Shamsin Ahmed When I was eig... Read More
How to Make Your Internship at BRAC a Success
By Jessica Meckler Internships. Lauded as vital work experience for students struggling to ensure post-graduation employability, the months of unpaid work are seen as an investment. And don’t... Read More
How can we ensure psycho-social support for all?
By Anjali Sarker 24 April 2013 was a day that Bangladesh would never forget. The collapse of Rana Plaza took lives of more than a thousand RMG workers, making it the worst man-made disaster in the cou... Read More
Hope Shines Bright in the Golden Land
By Samantha Power I recently spent a week and a half in Myanmar learning about the work of the BRAC team there and the needs of the people they are working for. With national reform underway, foreign ... Read More