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Realizing the Potential of South Sudan: Joyce Invests in Entrepreneurship
Joyce has been a tailor for a long time. She makes clothes for her five children and then some. A new order has come in to make uniforms for the local kindergarten school nearby.“I taught my husband...
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The world’s biggest family
BRAC staff, promoters, volunteers, family members and friends in Rangpur, Bangladesh, participating in the One Billion Rising demonstrations against gender-based violence, earlier this year. This post...
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Technology that works for the poor
Solar panels are seen installed on the roof of a village grocery store in Khasha Hazipur of Badarganj Upazile in Rangpur district, Bangladesh. (Photo: BRAC/Shehzad Noorani) It seems with each passing...
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The transformative potential of the poor
Elain Konah (seated, center) provides poultry vaccinations to her neighbors in Kakata, Liberia. (Photo: BRAC/Jake Lyell) This post originally appeared on HuffingtonPost.com. You may have heard of the...
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MasterCard Foundation President & CEO writes about the importance of...
Below is a post written by The MasterCard Foundation President & CEO Reeta Roy about the importance of youth entrepreneurship in Africa. The MasterCard Foundation has partnered with BRAC in Uganda...
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Microfinance Impact and Innovation Conference: Targeting the Ultra Poor
A couple of weeks ago, BRAC USA President & CEO Susan Davis moderated a panel of researchers and practitioners providing resources to the “ultra poor” – women who are too poor to be able to take...
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Realizing Potential: Ulfat’s story
Ulfat was just starting to feel the ground beneath her feet when, last July, life dealt Ulfat another hard blow. Born in the Nowshera district in the Kyber-Phaktunwa province, Ulfat was married off at...
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Changing lives in Afghanistan and around the world
I want to share with you an article published by Reuters yesterday about Afghanistan. Unlike most of the news I’ve read about Afghanistan lately, this story has a message of hope – of positive change...
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Omidyar Network Executive Forum (ONEF) Convening the World’s Leading Social...
The following was originally posted by Alice Korngold on Fast Company.The heads of Kiva, Guidestar, BRAC, Wikimedia Foundation, DonorsChoose, Ushahidi, Refugees United, and others of their peers, will...
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BRAC microfinance borrower wins entrepreneurship award
BRAC Uganda microfinance borrower, Lydia Nojaki Birungi, 43, won the bronze prize in the 2011 Citi Micro Entrepreneurship Awards. Lydia, a BRAC small enterprise borrower since 2009, was recognised by...
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Engaging Youth: Going Beyond Skills
In Bangladesh, close to two million young people join the workforce annually. Many of the opportunities are not that of employment in the formal sector, but rather entrepreneurship in the growing...
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To train, or not to train
Momena, a participant in BRAC’s program targeting the ultra-poor in Bangladesh. Variously called targeting the ultra-poor, just TUP, or more famously the graduation program (which we’re not always sure...
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