Thursday, July 2, 2015

Bangladeshi wins World Food Prize

Fazie Hasan Abed of Bangladesh is the winner of this year’s World Food Prize.

He created the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee in 1970, a nonprofit organization credited with helping more than 150 million people out of poverty.


He started it as a temporary relief organization to help the country recover from the 1970 typhoon that killed about 500,000 people and the subsequent war fought in 1971 to win independence from Pakistan.