Clinton
to Abed: “Now I can visit your schools anywhere in the world”
US$ 250 million commitment
by BRAC on Africa announced at Clinton Global Initiative
21 September 2006
Former US President Bill Clinton announced BRAC’s US$250
million commitment on Africa at the Opening Plenary session of
the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting held yesterday, September
20th, 2006 in New York City. Clinton presented BRAC’s Founder
and Chairperson, Fazle Hasan Abed with a signed Commitment Certificate
at the event.
Clinton, who had, in his
only visit to Bangladesh, met with students from BRAC Primary
Schools, remarked that he would now be able to visit BRAC Schools
not only in Bangladesh, but all over the world.
US First Lady Laura Bush also spoke at the Opening Plenary. Panelists
at the session included EU Council Secretary General Javier Solana,
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Liberian President Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf and Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
BRAC’s Commitment
is part of the organisation’s on-going expansion of development
activities into Africa. BRAC has already begun operations in Tanzania
and Uganda and plans to extend its interventions to Kenya, Malawi
and Southern Sudan in the near future.
BRAC will introduce its
unique, integrated approach to poverty reduction in these countries
by incorporating education, agriculture, and health components
with micro-finance schemes, totaling investments of $25 million
a year for ten years.
Since its inception in
1972 as a relief and rehabilitation organization, BRAC has transformed
into the world’s largest development NGO, its comprehensive
interventions touching the lives of over 150 million people in
Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
Kazi Arif Anwar
Manager
BRAC Public Affairs and Communications
Tel: +880-2-9881265/8824180 ext-2158
Fax: +880-2- 882 3614
Email: public-affairs@brac.net
Website: www.brac.net
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