BRAC Bank and Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society (BFDS) have partnered to train female freelancers in the country who aspire to build a career in this promising industry.
Titled ‘Shabolombi TARA’, this unique programme aims to train 1,600 professionals from all eight divisions of Bangladesh. They will not have to pay any fee to avail of the training. Besides this training, BRAC Bank will also provide banking services to freelancers and inform them about banking solutions needed to initiate new business.
BRAC Bank Women Banking Segment ‘TARA’ and BFDS signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the bank’s head office in Dhaka recently.
From BRAC Bank, Sarah Anam, Head of Retail Deposit; Mehruba Reza, Head of TARA and Agami; Shuvodhani Paul, Manager TARA and Agami; and from BFDS, Dr Tanjiba Rahman, Chairman; Jashim Uddin Joy, Senior Vice Chairman; M A Hasan Khan, Joint Organizing Secretary, and senior officials from both organizations were present at the signing ceremony.