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BRAC chair Abed receives knighthood |
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18 January 2010 |
Building Resources Across Communities (BRAC) founder and chair Fazle Hasan Abed has been named in the Queen’s New Year’s Honour List 2010 for his work tackling poverty and empowering the poor in Bangladesh and in some countries in Asia and Africa.
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Fazle Hasan Abed
BRAC founder and chair
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Abed received the Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG). He is the first person of Bangladesh origin to be honoured with a knighthood by the British Crown since 1947. He is also the second person in his family to be honoured with a knighthood. His grand uncle, Justice Nawab Sir Syed Shamsul Huda, was knighted by the British Crown in 1913.
“I am humbled by the honour to be conferred on me. I thank my colleagues in BRAC, who are at the forefront of the struggle to eradicate poverty in Bangladesh and abroad and I share this honour with them,” said Abed.
Abed was the chief guest during last May 2009 Annual General Assembly of the WFTO in Nepal. Learning the news, WFTO President Paul Myers said: "There are few individuals who have contributed their enormous talents, experience, resources and lives to benefit the poor and disadvantaged more than F.H.Abed of BRAC. None are more deserving of the Queen's honor.
“The Fair Trade Community is most fortunate to have the support and friendship of F.H. Abed. The existence of Aarong and its significant retail outlets for poor artisans alone is testimony to his vision and ability to translate vision into reality. We wish him continued good health and success."
Abed’s work started in 1970 when a cyclone hit the coastal regions of Bangladesh. He and friends formed HELP, an organization that provided relief and rehabilitation to cyclone victims. He was forced to leave the country during its struggle for independence from Pakistan. In the UK, he set up Action Bangladesh to lobby for his country’s independence.
He returned to Bangladesh in 1971 and founded BRAC a year after. After three decades, BRAC grew to become the largest development organization in the world in terms of scale and diversity of its works. In Bangladesh, BRAC operates in more than 69,000 villages and 2,000 slums. One of which is the BRAC-Aarong, a Fair Trade Organization and member of the WFTO.
BRAC uses holistic approach in their work to alleviate poverty, including Fair Trade – a market-based solution to fight poverty. To learn more of BRAC and their works, please visit their web site www.brac.net.
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