{"id":33093,"date":"2021-06-14T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/14\/uk-aid-cuts-to-bangladesh-ngo-a-gut-punch-says-charity-head"},"modified":"2021-06-14T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:00:22","slug":"uk-aid-cuts-to-bangladesh-ngo-a-gut-punch-says-charity-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33093","title":{"rendered":"UK aid cuts to Bangladesh NGO a \u2018gut punch\u2019, says charity head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Withdrawal from long-term partnership catastrophic, says Brac, affecting women and girls\u2019 education and those in extreme poverty<\/p>\n<p>The UK government\u2019s funding cuts to the world\u2019s largest international non-governmental organisation are a \u201cgut punch\u201d after a successful 10-year \u00a3450m partnership, according to a director.<\/p>\n<p>Asif Saleh, executive director of Brac Bangladesh, said the cuts will leave hundreds of thousands of girls without an education, millions of women and girls without access to family planning and hundreds of thousands of people in extreme poverty without support.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/14\/uk-aid-cuts-to-bangladesh-ngo-a-gut-punch-says-charity-head\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Withdrawal from long-term partnership catastrophic, says Brac, affecting women and girls\u2019 education and those in extreme povertyThe UK government\u2019s funding cuts to the world\u2019s largest international non-governmental organisation are a \u201cgut punch\u201d after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[247,327,2190,1879,59,1203,4,958,79,61,52,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-bangladesh","category-charities","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-global-development","category-inequality","category-politics","category-poverty","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33094,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33093\/revisions\/33094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}