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Reviewed by: jec10
on 05/31/10:
Mission
Our vision is a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential.
Our mission is to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. Our interventions aim to achieve large scale, positive changes through economic and social programs that enable women and men to realize their potential.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
Asia, Africa and the Carribbean
Target demographics:
BRAC targets people, mostly women and children, whose lives are dominated by multiple forms of deprivation.
Results to date:
BRAC has:
* made more than $6 billion in microfinance loans to 7 million women and their families,
* educated more than 6 million children,
* created more than 10 million employment opportunities,
* provided health education and services to 100 million people through women health promoters, and
* provided safe spaces, training and microfinance to thousands of adolescent girls
Indirect beneficiaries per year: 138 million people
What your donation will allow us to do:
Provide women and their families with the tools they need to realize their potential and create their own pathway out of poverty.
Your donation of $30 enables us to:
pay to train two women farmers in Uganda to break the cycle of subsistence farming.
Your donation of $50 enables us to:
provide a loan for a girl in Uganda to start her own business and bring in extra income to pay for school supplies and support her family
Your donation of $100 enables us to:
provide a year of education for a student in Pakistan, including books and supplies
Board Members and Affiliation:
(BRAC USA Board)
Chair of the Board
Lincoln C. Chen
President
China Medical Board
President & CEO
Susan M. Davis
BRAC USA, Inc.
Vice Chair of the Board
Ray Offenheiser
President & CEO
Oxfam America
Treasurer of the Board
Ronald Grzywinski
Chairman
ShoreBank Corporation
Secretary of the Board
Kamal Ahmad
President & CEO
Asian University for Women Support Foundation
Assistant Secretary & Treasurer of the Board
Richard A. Cash
Senior Lecturer
Harvard School of Public Health
Director
Charles Slaughter, Jr.
President
Living Goods
Past and Current Funders:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, NoVo Foundation, MasterCard Foundation, Nike Foundation, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, American Jewish World Service
Key Staff
Sir Fazle Hasan Abe, Founder & Chairperson, BRAC
Susan Davis, President & CEO, BRAC USA