Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee released its annual report for 2010 at a views exchange programme
with journalists at the auditorium of Journalism Training and Research Initiative in the capital on Saturday.
BRAC executive director Mahabub Hossain
presented the report in the context of national and millennium development goals.
Bangladesh has made considerable progress towards the MDGs, the report said.
The BRAC's pre-primary education programme aimed at encouraging and increasing primary school enrolment had enlisted around 3,29,000 children in 2010.
The organisation is currently working to reduce the number of school
drop-outs and extend its activities to hard-to-reach areas as well as those
that have fewer government schools, the report said.
In 2010, the non-formal primary schools of the BRAC had around 6,10,000 students and a 99.5 per cent pass rate.
According to the report, the maternal mortality rate has come down to 141 per thousand in the urban areas and 157 in rural
ones covered by the
organisation's health programme.
Mahabub Hossain said the BRAC's programmes are divided into three key groups – poverty alleviation, social security and capacity building,
and community empowerment.
BRAC International deputy executive director Imran Matin, education programme director Safiqul Islam, and health programme associate director Kaosar Afsana, among others, were present at the views exchange session.
Source : New Age
