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How BRAC Is Enabling Communities to Create Pathways out of Poverty – Virgin Unite

Date: 21 Apr 2022

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Author: April 21, 2022

By Clare Kelly | Senior Content Lead, Virgin Unite

This article originally appeared on Virgin Unite on April 21, 2022. Read here.

Founded in the 1970s with a focus on Bangladesh, BRAC is now the largest non-governmental development organisation in the world – operating on a global scale to build a world free from exploitation, discrimination, and inequality.

In 2002, BRAC created ‘The Graduation Approach’ after realising its programmes weren’t adequately reaching those left furthest behind. The approach is a multifaceted set of interventions, designed to address the complex nature of extreme poverty.