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Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), one of the world’s largest NGOs, has died in Dhaka aged 83, the charity said.
Abed passed away while undergoing treatment for a brain tumour, according to a BRAC statement released Friday.
“We will honour his legacy with the same resilience, dignity and humility that he has instilled in us,” the statement said.
Abed trained as an accountant in London and quit his well-paid job with oil giant Shell when war broke out in Bangladesh in 1971.
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