BRAC’s cradle-to-career approach ensures children are supported at every stage, starting from their early childhood.
BIED (BRAC Institute of Educational Development) is a pioneer of Early Childhood Development (ECD), we advocate for the importance of play during early years of development and learning. We have created innovative solutions to help children become engaged, empathetic, and empowered individuals, with a focus on play-based learning, mental health, humanitarian response, and reimagining teaching and learning.
OUR IMPACT
500,000
children and caregivers have been reached across Africa and Asia.
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Play Labs are reaching 15,802 children in Bangladesh, 54.8% of whom are girls.
20,228
children, adolescents and young people in the Rohingya community received services related to ECD, life skills and pre-vocational skills in 2024.
OUR WORK
Breakthroughs that are driving positive change
Our Stories
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BRAC Humanitarian Play Lab: when playing becomes healing
Play is especially important for children in fragile settings, where they are exposed to violence and poverty. Play helps such children better manage possible trauma caused by their experiences. By adapting the model to the highly contextualised settings in the Rohingya community, BRAC seeks to provide healing through play for Rohingya children, in a way that improves on traditional approaches to early childhood development, child protection and psychosocial well-being in humanitarian settings.
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Path to equity in early childhood development
Play is one of the most important ways in which young children gain skills and knowledge.
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Early childhood development should be a global priority
The first five years of a child’s life are among the most important developmentally. Children living in the most marginalised conditions are thus being left behind.