Debapriya Bhattacharya, the Permanent Representative for Bangladesh at United Nations in Geneva , in this brief interview talks in details about BRAC and its activities in the light of the fact that BRAC received awards from the Hilton Foundations which will be formally handed over to BRAC on Monday.
The Hilton Foundation announced Friday
that BRAC, the largest non-profit organization in the developing world,
announced here today that it will dedicate the USD 1.5 million it receives from
the 2008 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize to its work in southern Sudan.
BRAC, recognized for its success in raising people out of poverty in some of
the world's poorest countries, is one of the few NGOs working in southern Sudan.
BRAC's founder and Chairperson Fazle Hasan Abed told reporters that Operating
BRAC will officially receive the Hilton Prize here on Monday evening.