Mymensingh Mymensingh is a district located in central Bangladesh, part of the Dhaka division. It is one of the closest districts to Dhaka, only 118 kilometres away from the capital city. Mymensingh is clearly marked by the old Brahmaputra river flowing along in the north. The people of Mymensingh are involved mostly in agriculture as it is their most common source of income. BRAC bull station in Mymensingh. Artificial Insemination enterprisewas set up to create synergies with the BRAC Dairy enterprise as livestock is considered an important tool in Mymensingh district was also poverty alleviation. known for jute production which is termed the golden fiber due to the revenue it generated as few of its social enterprises such a cash crop. Apart from these as BRAC Artificial Insemination, General information sources of income, people in this BRAC Recycled Handmade area are involved in businesses Paper, BRAC Sericulture, BRAC Population 5.31 million like cultivating fish, prawns etc. Poultry and BRAC Nursery which Apart from Bengalis, Mymensingh Unions 146 are directly helping to create has indigenous inhabitants like Villages 2,709 job opportunities for hundreds the Garo, Hajong, Koch, Dhalu, Primary schools 2,689 of community women. Many Bangshi, Barman, Khumi and Literacy rate 39% traditional rituals are observed Malpahari people. Garos make up Hospitals 5 every year in Mymensingh. Among the majority of indigenous people Number of NGOs 184 them is the colourful Wanna here. BRAC started its operations (harvest) festival which is held at the Banks 80 here from the very beginning and beginning of the harvesting season Bazaars 571 now most of the core programmes at Haluaghat. such as microfinance, education, community empowerment, health, human rights and legal aid services, and water, sanitation and hygiene are available in Mymensingh. Among them BRAC WASH programme has already achieved notable success as it reached 84 per cent of sanitation coverage in the city. Apart from that, BRAC has also established

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At a glance Human Rights and As of December 2014 Legal Aid Services HRLE shebikas 612 Microfinance HRLE graduates 130,714 Village organisations (VO) 3,441 Legal aid clinics 17 Members 184,189 Borrowers 80,604 Gender Justice and Progoti (small enterprises) 5,246 Diversity Education Gender kormi 80 Sampriti centre/members 80/240 Primary schools 420 Student watch Pre-primary schools 461 group/member 35/875 ADP centres 352 Community watch Community libraries 57 group/member 35/450

Health, Nutrition Social Enterprises and Population BRAC Artificial Insemination Health workers 952 BRAC Poultry 2 Health volunteers 7,988 BRAC Nursery 2 BRAC Recycled Handmade Paper 1 Community Empowerment BRAC Sericulture 1 Polli shomaj 490 Union shomaj 49 Popular theatre groups 15

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Committee members 24,915 Sanitation coverage 84% Deep tube-wells installed 156 Sanitary latrines installed in school 216 Loans for sanitary latrines 10,743

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