Founded in 1972, BRAC is a Bangladeshi development organization dedicated to alleviating poverty by empowering the poor to bring about change in their own lives. Today, BRAC is present in 11 countries and reaches more than 100 million beneficiaries.
Through its low-cost education programs, BRAC offers:
- Non-formal pre-primary and primary education,
- Support to formal schools,
- Programs for adolescents, and
- Free community learning centers.
In Bangladesh, BRAC currently operates 23,000 schools across all 64 districts and has approximately 700,000 students enrolled. BRAC focuses its efforts on enrolling children not currently served by government primary schools or private schools. It focuses particularly on those children from very poor and marginalized families.
EAC and BRAC have partnered to enroll 13,000 children over six years, into primary schools on purpose-built boats in Bangladesh’s Haor basin flood plain. The partnership will also enroll 62,000 out of school children in urban slums in and around the Bangladesh cities of Dhaka, Sylhet, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Rangpur, Jessore, Mymensingh, Commilla, Gajipur and Norsingdi. Together the two projects seek to enroll 75,000 children.
For more information about this EAC Implementing Partner, please visit BRAC’s website.
Projects
BRAC Urban Slums Schools
With the support of EAC co-funding, BRAC is establishing 2,000 single classroom schools in the urban slums of Bangladesh in order to enroll 62,000 children who are currently out of school into quality primary education programs.
