South Sudan the World’S Youngest Nation
South Sudan The world’s youngest nation South Sudan will be celebrating its one-year anniversary on July 9, 2012. BRAC has been active in the area since 2007 and has grown to become one of the largest, if not the largest, NGO in the young country, reaching over 17,000 micro-borrowers with over USD 7 million in loans, distributing over 17 metric tonnes of seeds, creating work for 2,500 health workers, and educating over 6,000 students. BRAC is expanding in South Sudan by providing technical and grant support to 69 community-based organisations working in all 10 states of the new country through a special government and UN peace fund. What started out in 1972 in a remote village of Bangladesh as a limited relief operation, turned into the largest development organisation in the world. Of major non-governmental organisations, BRAC is one the few based in the global south. Today, BRAC is a development success story, spreading solutions born in Bangladesh to 10 other countries around the world - a global leader in creating opportunity for the world’s poor. Organising the poor using communities’ own human and material resources, it catalyses lasting change, creating an ecosystem in which the poor have the chance to seize control of their own lives. We do this with a holistic development approach geared toward inclusion, using tools like microfinance, education, healthcare, legal services, community empowerment and more. Our work now touches the lives of an estimated 126 million people, with staff and BRAC-trained entrepreneurs numbering in the hundreds of thousands - a global movement bringing change to 10 countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, with operations in our eleventh country, the Philippines, South Sudan being launched in 2012.
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