Over the next six years, BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative will work with governments in countries with the greatest potential to scale BRAC’s Graduation approach to help millions more people to lift themselves from extreme poverty. Today, BRAC, a Global South-led NGO that combats inequality and poverty around the world, was announced as one of this … Continued
Join us for an introduction to the Graduation pilot taking place in the province of Negros Occidental in the Philippines, in partnership with the Asia Development Bank and the Philippines’ Department of Labor and Employment.
Scholastica hasn’t just used her participation in the PROFIT Financial Graduation program to change the life of her and her family, she actively seeks out others to share the skills and training she has received to change the lives of those in her community.
The Samburu region is an impoverished area of northern Kenya fraught with conflict and struggling with crippling poverty. Here how the PROFIT Financial Graduation program empowered Anna Lobug to build her livelihood and get a fresh start in life.
Mary Musyimi saw and opportunity and ran with it. Now she proudly shows us the drastic changes she has made for her family and her future.
In 2017 BRAC began its support of the PROFIT Financial Graduation programme, in partnership with IFAD, CARE and the BOMA Project, in the ASAL regions of Kitui and Samburu Kenya.
The Samburu region is an impoverished area of northern Kenya fraught with conflict and struggling with crippling poverty. Before the BOMA Project selected Jecinta Lelenguya as a participant of the IFAD-funded PROFIT Financial Graduation program, her family was barely making ends meet.
Join Amina Muema as she tell her story of her journey with the PROFIT Financial Graduation program out of extreme poverty, in Kenya’s Kitui region.
Two women in Bangladesh go from living on less than 70 cents per day to becoming savvy entrepreneurs who are independently supporting their families. BRAC’s ‘Graduation’ approach to ending poverty gives women living in desperate circumstances the tools and opportunities to improve their lives.
By Julie Kedroske | Acting Director of Technical Assistance, BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative This article originally appeared in Inter Press Service News Agency on October 21, 2021. Read it here. NEW YORK, Oct 21 2021 (IPS) – As the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, approaches (31 October -12 November in Glasgow, … Continued