What we do
Friendship works together with vulnerable people in remote communities in Bangladesh to help them transform their lives.
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF POVERTY
We implement six core programmes in an integrated approach (see below).
Our work with the poor began with Healthcare, but it soon became clear that to make a lasting impact on people’s lives we had to resolve other issues at the same time to break the cycle.
HEALTH
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATION
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION & DISASTER MANAGEMENT
INCLUSIVE CITIZENSHIP
CULTURAL PRESERVATION
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Happy New Year 2020 – Sticking to our Values throughout
by Marc Elvinger, Chairman Friendship Luxembourg Chères amies, chers amis, Dear Friends of Friendship (English translation below) En me joignant de tout cœur à ses vœux, je partage avec vous (même si certains d’entre vous auront déjà pu le recevoir) le message de...
Climate Recap
By Benjamin George Coles In May, Cyclone Fani displaced around 3.5 million people in Bangladesh and India. Even before that, around 10 million in Bangladesh had been evacuated due to climate emergencies in recent decades. Friendship works in places that are among the...
Building Climate Resilience—a photo essay
Pictures and text by Naushad Ali Husein Friendship’s climate crisis management programs build resilience by encouraging and spreading locally learned adaptation techniques, but also by introducing knowledge and expertise into communities and organizing them to prepare...
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Friendship provides economic opportunities to rural women by giving them both the vocational training and access to the infrastructure necessary for their craft.
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Women's health in remote, riverine communities in Bangladesh is one of Friendship's primary concerns. These Friendship Community Medicaides work closely with the women they provide services and awareness to.
Runa Khan will be at #WorldEconomicForum #Davos2020 #WEF2020
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Women are often hesitant to talk come forward about their health concerns, stemming from old mindsets still common in the remote river islands of Bangladesh. The Friendship Community Medicaides bring healthcare services to these women.
Runa Khan will be at #WEF #Davos2020
The remote, rural char communities in Bangladesh are often unaware of their rights, privileges and protections under the law, which is where Friendship paralegals come into play; especially regarding women's rights.
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It is when the water subsides that fates are decided. For one family, last year’s catastrophic flood has left behind signs of promise.
Read the piece in The Daily Star:
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Yin and Yang of the Brahmaputra
A lone structure is taking shape on a featureless, grey horizon. Two figures work under the beating sun, on an otherwise deserted landscape. One digs, the other carries loads of earth on her head.Women are at the heart of Friendship, empowering them to have agency and even be the go-to for various community needs; medical, legal, educational. They are core to grass roots development in remote, rural communities.
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Many of the children at Friendship's schools have to face immense difficulties from climate change and natural disasters. They staged a little play about how they prepare for just that
Stay tuned to #gobeshona6 at #IUB with #icccad to and our page keep up to date!Disaster Preparedness awareness performance by Friendship Children
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How are social innovations contributing towards the Sustainable Development Goals? Read the report below to see what we've learned from the Schwab Foundation
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How social innovation can deliver the SDGs: six lessons for the decade of delivery
As the urgency to meet our shared challenges and common goals of the SDGs by 2030 intensifies, social innovators have an important catalytic role to play in highlighting and integrating what has worke...Students of Friendship Primary School of Roumari, one of the most disaster-prone areas of Bangladesh, who have seen countless disasters, but never gave up. Through Friendship #CIDRR program, they have learned the techniques to cope up with disasters. And, for the first time in life, they have traveled to a city just to share their experience with us at the inauguration of Gobeshona 6 Conference, 2020 organized by International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD).
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Inauguration of the 6th Gobeshona International Conference on Research into Action in Bangladesh has together a distinguished and multidisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners from around the world to share their knowledge, research, research and practical experience on climate change issues in Bangladesh. A group of students from Friendship Primary School from Roumari will perform a play at 10:45 am (BST).
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Fantastic program. Proud of them.
It is a good programme