Staff Reporter :
Brac founder and the chair emeritus Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, will be laid to rest at Banani graveyard this (Sunday) afternoon.
His mortal remains to be brought to the Army Stadium for two hours from 10:30 am to allow people to pay their last respects to him, Brac said in a statement.
His Namaz-e-Janaza will also be held there at 12.30 pm. He will be laid to rest at the Banani graveyard on the same day.
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed died on Friday night at Apollo Hospitals in Bashundhara
Residential Area of the capital where he was undergoing treatment as he was battling a malignant tumour of the brain. He was 83. Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of the world’s largest non-government development organisation BRAC.
He left behind a son, a daughter and three grand children and hosts of admirers and relatives to mourn his death.
President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Atiqul Islam expressed condolence at his death.
In 1972, he founded what was then Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee Brac, later changed into Brac, to support war-torn Bangladesh’s rebuilding efforts.
It eventually grew into the world’s largest indigenous NGO and a global brand in the development community.
Brac’s activities range from education to extreme poverty alleviation to social business to massive microcredit operations Bangladesh. Brac International has operations in about a dozen countries, from Afghanistan to Africa.
In 2010, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George by the British Crown in recognition of his services to reducing poverty in Bangladesh and internationally.
The many prestigious awards won by Abed include Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership 1980.
He also won Spanish Order of Civil Merit and Leo Tolstoy International Gold Medal.
He was among the Fortune magazine list of the World’s 50 greatest leaders in 2014 and 2017.
Born in 1936, he studied Accountancy in London.
The 1970 Cyclone and 1971 Liberation War in Bangladesh dramatically changed the direction of his life after he started working as a senior corporate executive at Pakistan Shell.
He left his job and moved to London, where he helped initiate Action Bangladesh and HELP Bangladesh in support of the war of independence from Pakistan.
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed has been honoured with numerous national and international awards for his achievements in leading BRAC, including the LEGO Prize (2018), Laudato Si’ Award (2017), Jose Edgardo Campos Collaborative Leadership Award, South Asia Region (2016), Thomas Francis, Jr. Medal in Global Public Health (2016), World Food Prize (2015), Trust Women Hero Award (2014), Spanish Order of Civil Merit (2014), Leo Tolstoy International Gold Medal (2014), CEU Open Society Prize (2013), Inaugural WISE Prize for Education (2011), Entrepreneur for the World Award (2009), David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award (2008), Inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award (2007), Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership (2007), Palli Karma Shahayak Foundation (PKSF) Award for Lifetime Achievement in Social Development and Poverty Alleviation (2007), UNDP Mahbubul Haq Award for Outstanding Contribution to Human Development (2004), Gates Award for Global Health (2004), Gleitsman Foundation International Activist Award (2003), Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneurship Award (2003), Olof Palme Prize (2001), InterAction Humanitarian Award (1998) and Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership (1980).
He is also recognised by Ashoka as one of the ‘global greats’ and is a founding member of its prestigious Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2009, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George by the British Crown in recognition of his services to reducing poverty in Bangladesh and internationally. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was a member of the Group of Eminent Persons appointed by the UN Secretary-General in 2010 to advise on support for the Least Developed Countries. In both 2014 and 2017, he was named in Fortune Magazine’s List of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.
The many honorary degrees received by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed include those from Princeton University (2014), the University of Oxford (2009), Columbia University (2008) and Yale University (2007).
Brac founder and the chair emeritus Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, will be laid to rest at Banani graveyard this (Sunday) afternoon.
His mortal remains to be brought to the Army Stadium for two hours from 10:30 am to allow people to pay their last respects to him, Brac said in a statement.
His Namaz-e-Janaza will also be held there at 12.30 pm. He will be laid to rest at the Banani graveyard on the same day.
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed died on Friday night at Apollo Hospitals in Bashundhara
Residential Area of the capital where he was undergoing treatment as he was battling a malignant tumour of the brain. He was 83. Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of the world’s largest non-government development organisation BRAC.
He left behind a son, a daughter and three grand children and hosts of admirers and relatives to mourn his death.
President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Atiqul Islam expressed condolence at his death.
In 1972, he founded what was then Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee Brac, later changed into Brac, to support war-torn Bangladesh’s rebuilding efforts.
It eventually grew into the world’s largest indigenous NGO and a global brand in the development community.
Brac’s activities range from education to extreme poverty alleviation to social business to massive microcredit operations Bangladesh. Brac International has operations in about a dozen countries, from Afghanistan to Africa.
In 2010, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George by the British Crown in recognition of his services to reducing poverty in Bangladesh and internationally.
The many prestigious awards won by Abed include Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership 1980.
He also won Spanish Order of Civil Merit and Leo Tolstoy International Gold Medal.
He was among the Fortune magazine list of the World’s 50 greatest leaders in 2014 and 2017.
Born in 1936, he studied Accountancy in London.
The 1970 Cyclone and 1971 Liberation War in Bangladesh dramatically changed the direction of his life after he started working as a senior corporate executive at Pakistan Shell.
He left his job and moved to London, where he helped initiate Action Bangladesh and HELP Bangladesh in support of the war of independence from Pakistan.
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed has been honoured with numerous national and international awards for his achievements in leading BRAC, including the LEGO Prize (2018), Laudato Si’ Award (2017), Jose Edgardo Campos Collaborative Leadership Award, South Asia Region (2016), Thomas Francis, Jr. Medal in Global Public Health (2016), World Food Prize (2015), Trust Women Hero Award (2014), Spanish Order of Civil Merit (2014), Leo Tolstoy International Gold Medal (2014), CEU Open Society Prize (2013), Inaugural WISE Prize for Education (2011), Entrepreneur for the World Award (2009), David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award (2008), Inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award (2007), Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership (2007), Palli Karma Shahayak Foundation (PKSF) Award for Lifetime Achievement in Social Development and Poverty Alleviation (2007), UNDP Mahbubul Haq Award for Outstanding Contribution to Human Development (2004), Gates Award for Global Health (2004), Gleitsman Foundation International Activist Award (2003), Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneurship Award (2003), Olof Palme Prize (2001), InterAction Humanitarian Award (1998) and Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership (1980).
He is also recognised by Ashoka as one of the ‘global greats’ and is a founding member of its prestigious Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2009, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George by the British Crown in recognition of his services to reducing poverty in Bangladesh and internationally. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was a member of the Group of Eminent Persons appointed by the UN Secretary-General in 2010 to advise on support for the Least Developed Countries. In both 2014 and 2017, he was named in Fortune Magazine’s List of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.
The many honorary degrees received by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed include those from Princeton University (2014), the University of Oxford (2009), Columbia University (2008) and Yale University (2007).
