DID YOU KNOW? If you live in one of the ten countries where BRAC works, there is a 50-50 chance that you will live on less than $2 per day and over a 90% chance that you or your parents have lived through a war. Only one in five girls in Afghanistan attend primary school. If 10% more girls go to secondary school, a nation’s economy grows 3%, yet 99.4% of international aid money is not directed towards girls. Sierra Leone’s maternal mortality ratio is the highest in the world, with one in eight women dying during pregnancy or childbirth. 6
BRAC USA Annual Report 2010
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