Sir Fazle Hasan Abed: 1 year since his passing, legacy shines through Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Today marks a year since the development sector s lighthouse had gone out.
On this day last year, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the larger-than-life spearhead of Brac, passed on from this world to the next after suffering from a malignant brain tumour.
In 1972, Sir Fazle had wrapped up his life in London as an accountant to move to his war-torn, newly-liberated country to establish Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, known to all as Brac.
At first it was just a small relief and rehabilitation effort carried out in a remote area of Sylhet division. Over the last 47 years, it expanded itself to provide services to over 100 million people in 12 countries of Asia and Africa.