Global Learning Meeting

February 9, 2012

Reflections from the Global Learning Meeting: Day 2

“This meeting is a great opportunity to see what’s really going on. In Sri Lanka, right now we only have microfinance. I had no idea what the health, education, and WASH [Water, sanitation, and hygiene] programs would be like. Reading on the website is nothing like coming here and really being able to see it.”
February 8, 2012

BRAC’s Global Learning Meeting on Youth: Reflections from Day 1

Two billion youth. Six hundred million unemployed. BRAC’s Executive Director, Mahabub Hossain, highlighted these sobering statistics in his opening comments to the participants of BRAC’s first Global Learning Meeting in Rajendrapur, Bangladesh. On February 7th and 8th, over 100 people gathered to focus on how BRAC could create its first global strategy for youth