Dhaka, April 26 -- Tomorrow (Sunday, 27 April 2025) marks the 89th birthday of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of BRAC, the world's leading non-governmental development organisation. Sir Fazle was born on 27 April 1936, in the village of Baniachang, Habiganj. BRAC, the organisation he established, has now evolved into the world's largest non-governmental development organisation.

In 1962, he studied accountancy in London and became a cost management accountant. His life took a dramatic turn during the devastating cyclone of 1970 and the Liberation War of 1971 while working for a British multinational firm in Pakistan. Following the outbreak of the liberation war, he resigned and returned to London, where he initiated the formation of t...