As of September 2016, BRAC was the world's largest non-governmental development organisation in terms of personnel count. BRAC is a Bangladesh-based multinational development organisation. BRAC was afterwards registered with the Government of Bangladesh's NGO Affairs Bureau in order to collect international donations. As of September 2016, BRAC was the world's largest non-governmental development organisation in terms of personnel count. BRAC was founded in 1972 following Bangladesh's independence by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed and is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh as well as 11 other countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. BRAC claims to employ approximately 90,000 employees, about 70% of whom are women, and that its services reach over 126 million people. The organisation is partially self-funded through a variety of social enterprises, including a dairy and food project, an Aaron chain of retail handicraft stores, a seed and agribusiness, and poultry. BRAC operates in 12 countries throughout the world.