The world’s poorest countries are also some of its youngest, and there is a unique opportunity to unmake systems of inequality from the start. Our work in human capital development takes a cradle-to-career approach, starting with play-based learning all the way up to a university that focuses on creating empathetic leaders.
Taking education to the last mile
We have reimagined learning, bringing education to the most remote areas by training women in those communities to become teachers through an informal school model. Girls make up the majority of students in all of our classrooms, in recognition of the systemic barriers to education and opportunities they face, leading to high rates of child marriage and increased gender-based violence.
Empowering young women and youth leadership
We are scaling a network of clubs across Asia and Africa for adolescent girls and young women, promoting them as champions of transformational change in their communities and equipping them with access to information, training and support to strengthen their social capital. At an ecosystem level, we also run a wide variety of initiatives to support young people who are independently interested in creating positive change in their own communities.
Creating pathways to decent work and safe futures
Expanding job opportunities is a key focus in all of the countries we work in. We provide both on-the-job and institution-based skills training, and support people to safely migrate for work. We ensure students can access quality career advice and create pathways for them to access impactful work, and work with a wide range of employers in the informal and formal sector to create safer workplaces.
We founded BRAC University in 2001 to drive this mission even further.
Our impact
15
million children accessed pre-primary and primary education from BRAC schools
480,000
adolescent girls and young women have been equipped with entrepreneurship, employability and life skills across Africa.
60,500
Bangladeshi girls preventing child marriage through local brigades, which successfully stopped 27% of reported child marriages in 2024 alone.
