UK aid cuts to Bangladesh NGO a ‘gut punch’, says charity head

Withdrawal from long-term partnership catastrophic, says Brac, affecting women and girls' education and those in extreme poverty

The UK government's funding cuts to the world's largest international non-governmental organisation are a gut punch" after a successful 10-year 450m partnership, according to a director.

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.