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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Health Council cordially invite you to attend the 2004 Gates Award for Global Health Lecture by Fazle Hasan Abed chair & founder of 2004 Award Winning Organization, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC).
When:
10:00 am (Continental Breakfast starts at 9:30 am)
Monday, June 7, 2004
Where:
Keck Center of the National Academies
500 5th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC
Register
History and Background of BRAC
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), a national private development organization set up in 1972 by Mr. Fazle Hasan Abed, was initially established as a relief organization, to afford relief and assistance to resettle refugees returning to Bangladesh from India after Bangladesh's Liberation War. The immediate task of relief and rehabilitation over, BRAC turned its focus on the long-term issue of poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor, especially women, in the rural areas of Bangladesh.
BRAC works with people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease and other handicaps. With multifaceted development interventions, BRAC strives to bring about positive change in the quality of life of the poor people of Bangladesh.
BRAC firmly believes and is actively involved in promoting human rights, dignity and gender equity through poor people's social, economic, political and human capacity building. Although the emphasis of BRAC's work is at the individual level, sustaining the work of the organization depends on an environment that permits the poor to break out of the cycle of poverty and hopelessness. To this end, BRAC endeavors to bring about change at the level of national and global policy on poverty reduction and social progress. BRAC is committed to making its programs socially, financially and environmentally sustainable, using new methods and improved technologies. As a part of its support to the program participants and its financial sustainability, BRAC is also involved in various income generating enterprises.
Poverty reduction programs undertaken so far have bypassed many of the poorest. In this context one of BRAC's main focuses is the ultra poor. With multifaceted development interventions, BRAC strives to bring about changes in the quality of life of these people.
Previous recipients of the $1 million Gates Award for Global Health include the Brazilian National AIDS Program (2003) for pioneering an integrated approach to HIV prevention and treatment and the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International (2002) for its contributions to polio eradication.
Please register at www.nationalacademies.org/gateslecture if you would like to attend this event
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