Fazle Hasan Abed - Paragraph

Fazle Hasan Abed - Paragraph

Fazle Hasan Abed is a Bangladeshi social worker and the founder Chairman of BRAC. For his outstanding contribution to social improvement, he has received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the UNDP Mahabul Haq Award, the inaugural Clinton Global Award. He was also awarded the title Knight. He was born on 27 April 1936 in Baniachong in Habiganj district in Bangladesh. His parents are Siddiq Hasan and Syeda Sufya Khatun. He completed his graduation in Naval Architecture from the university of Glasgow. Abed returned to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to join Shell Oil Company and quickly rose to head of its finance division. During the war of Liberation, he went to England and set up Action Bangladesh to lobby for the independence of Bangladesh with the governments of Europe. When the war ended in 1971, Abed sold his flat in Land on decided to use the money got from selling his flat for improving the living condition of the rural poor. He established BRAC (non government organization) in 1972. It now operates in more than 69 thousand villages. It maintains offices in countries in the world.