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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Retour sur la conférence / Look back on the conference “Restoring dignity, maintaining hope. How much can a humanitarian organisation do”
Chères amies, chers amis Dear Friends of Friendship (translation below) Vous avez été 165 personnes à assister à notre conférence «Restoring Dignity, Sustaining Hope: How much can a humanitarian organisation do?” de mardi dernier, 12 novembre, à la Banque de...
From the Netherlands to Northern Bangladesh
I love the world and all that it brings. I love to travel, meet new people, experience other cultures and explore nature. Loving the world does not only include travelling for me, but it is also striving to reduce the causes and effects of climate change. Loving the...
Do we sometimes overlook the beauty in these people’s lives?
Benjamin begins his volunteering with a question If you come from Western Europe and have just arrived in the noise and traffic and crowdedness and pollution and inequality and general chaos of Dhaka, a visit to somewhere like Sidhai Char is going to be especially...
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In celebration of World Children's Day, we would like to put our hands together for the children of the remotest, most marginalized communities who, despite the socioeconomic constraints not just come to our schools, but do exceptionally well in public exams!
#WorldChildrensDay
Elisa Vandermeer from the Netherlands is 23, and CCADM's newest intern. Read about her decision to join Friendship's Wave Volunteer program:
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From the Netherlands to Northern Bangladesh - Friendship
I love the world and all that it brings. I love to travel, meet new people, experience other cultures and explore nature. Loving the world does not only include travelling for me, but it is also striv...Shehzar Doja, presents his experiences in the Rohingya camps collecting the pieces for "I am Rohingya; Poetry from the Camps and Beyond"; an anthology of poems by the persecuted Rohingya people
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#Rohingya #humanitarian #refugee #crisis #Luxembourg #persecution #literature #poetry
Presentation by Shehzar Doja, 12.11.2019 - Friendship
I would like to begin this evening by giving thanks to Friendship for enabling this historic workshop by providing not just space but also extending hospitality to us, co-editors of ‘I am a Rohingya..."The power of music, this universal language, is tremendous and we would like to continue our work" - Dominique Hansen, Director of the EME Foundation on the work carried out by the Foundation with migrants and refugees, at the Restoring Dignity, Sustaining Hope conference
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#Rohingya #humanitarian #refugee #crisis #Luxembourg #persecution
Speech by Dominique Hansen, 12.11.2019 - Friendship
Good evening dear guests, I am very honoured to be with you tonight for this Friendship event. As Fondation EME, we had the pleasure to collaborate with Friendship Luxembourg to put together a “trai...A poem by a member of the persecuted Rohingya minority, from "I am Rohingya"
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#Rohingya #humanitarian #refugee #crisis #poetry #literature
A piece from "I am Rohingya; Poetry from the Camps and Beyond"; featuring the words of one Mayyu Ali, just one of the many hundreds of thousands of people at the camps
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#Rohingya #Humanitarian #refugee #crisis #Rohingyacrisis #poetry #literature
THAT'S ME, A ROHINGYA - Friendship
by MAYYU ALI When I was born,I was not a baby like you are.Without a birth certificate,Just like death. When I was one, I was not a child like you are.Without a nation, Just like a pet. When I was at ...Runa Khan, Founder and Executive Director of Friendship, spoke about Restoring Dignity, Sustaining Hope at a conference in Luxembourg last week
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#Rohingya #humanitarian #refugee #crisis #RohingyaCrisis #luxembourg
Speech by Runa Khan, 12.11.2019 - Friendship
Restoring Dignity Maintaining Hope, how much can a Humanitarian organization do? It was the night of August 25th 2017 which witnessed the surge of the first wave of the million Rohingyas, who would fl...did she speak of returning property she is refusing to ( from the same place )
Introduction by Philippe Depoorter, member of the Board of Directors of Friendship Luxembourg at the Restoring Dignity, Sustaining Hope conference on Tuesday (article in French)
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#Rohingya #humanitarian #refugee #crisis #RohingyaCrisis #luxembourg
Introduction à la conférence FRIENDSHIP par Philippe Depoorter, 12.11.2019 - Friendship
L’embrasement couve sur les hauteurs autrefois luxuriantes de Cox’s Bazar Madame la Ministre de la Coopération, Chers amis de Friendship, J’aimerais d’abord, au nom de mes collègues du Com...The current Rohingya Crisis started late 2017, with a massive influx of ethnic Rohingyas fleeing out of Myanmar's Rakhine State and into, primarily, the coast of Bangladesh.
2 years into the crisis, Friendship is taking stock of their interventions throughout that length of time
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Paulette Lenert, Luxembourg's Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs visited the Rohingya Camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh this summer. See what her visit was like
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