BRAC is an organisation that believes in scale. Since 2008, BRAC has been working to lift people in Sierra Leone out of poverty by fostering entrepreneurship and helping Sierra Leoneans realise their potential. We have launched successful programmes in microfinance, health, agriculture, poultry and livestock, and human rights and legal empowerment, reaching almost half a million poor Sierra Leoneans. In 2010, our microfinance programme expanded to 35 branches and more than doubled its number of borrowers while our agriculture programme started production of high quality rice seeds at our seed testing and multiplication farms in Karafay and Magbafth. The health programme established a diagnostic centre to provide low cost laboratory services to poor Sierra Leoneans. Our human rights and legal empowerment programme was launched in three branches.