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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Women in Leadership (WIL) organized a day-long engagement session titled ‘Women of Excellence 2018’ on the 10th of November where Runa Khan was invited as a keynote speaker to speak on ‘Self Discovery and Purpose’.
With multiple keynotes, dialogues and panel discussions, the initiative aimed at instigating knowledge and skills among the audience, most of whom were working women and female students.
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The market for social investment is growing around the world. A global survey of investors found that respondents had committed US$10.6 billion to social investment in 2014 and intended to invest 16 per cent more – $12.2 billion – in 2015. The GSG summit seeks to explore The Power of Impact across five core building blocks of the global impact investment ecosystem
1 | Supply: New investment allocation paradigm
2 | Demand: Impact entrepreneurs to the fore
3 | Intermediation: Delivering risk, return and impact
4 | Policy & Regulation: Paving the road to impact economies
5 | Market Building: Driving impact measurement and standards.
This year the summiut was held on the 8th and 9th of October, in New Delhi, India. Runa Khan, Friendship Founder and Executive Director spoke at the event as a panel member. Plenaries and breakout sessions focused on priorities, key action areas, and milestones to take impact investment to the global tipping point by 2020.
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Only 25% of health workers serve in rural areas of Bangladesh, although 70% of the population lives there. This creates an enormous gap in the healthcare provided to the people who need it most.
The Ahimsa summit seeks to explore how technological innovation in healthcare can help to promote social innovation, and how the commitment of each actor can help to reduce disparity and make these technologies accessible to the most vulnerable and give their contribution to the goal of universal health coverage.
Runa Khan, Friendship Founder and Executive Director was invited to be a speaker at the Ahimsa summit in Annecy, France from the 15th – 17th of October, 2018 where she spoke about Friendship’s innovative 3-tier healthcare model for rural areas, and how it helps to bridge the gap between providers and recipients.
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On the occasion of "International Day for Disaster Reduction 2018" held on 13th October, Friendship participated in an exhibition among other non-government organizations along with the government, development partners, civil society organizations, and academic institutions who are working together to reduce community exposure to disaster risks, showcased different Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) practices and approaches highlighting the developments on Disaster Preparedness.
Honorable Minister of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDM&R) Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya inaugurated the ceremony as the Chief Guest. Dhirendra Debnath Shambu, MP, Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief graced the occasion as the Special Guest. The event was chaired by Md. Shah Kamal, Secretary of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief.
In addition, Friendship jointly observed the day with the local-level government (Upazilla Parishad) and other Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in Kalapara, Taltoli, Shamnagar, Gaibandha Sadar, Kurigram Sadar and Chilmari upazilla of Patuakhali, Barguna, Satkhira, Gaibandha and Kurigram district respectively through various colorful rally, discussion sessions, cultural sessions, art competition and mock drills.
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Friendship, in association with District Legal Aid Committee (DLAC) Gaibandha, organized a sharing meeting at the Judge Court Bhaban, Gaibandha on 16 October to discuss how to expedite legal aid services for the poor and marginalized people of the char areas.
The session was presided by Rasheda Sultana, the District & Session Judge, and Chairman District Legal Aid Committee of Gaibandha and attended by district legal aid committee members and panel lawyers. Ayesha Taasin Khan, Director Education and Inclusive Citizenship of Friendship chaired the occasion. The meeting was moderated by Rezaul Karim Joint District Judge and Jamshedul Haque, District Legal Aid Officer.
The meeting also called for the need to place high degree of importance on close coordination between the work and efforts of all development organizations and the judiciary for ensuring the effective functioning network to attain positive results in legal service delivery.
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Global Dignity Day celebrated in Bangladesh and around the world today. 79 Friendship Primary and 7 Friendship Secondary schools are organizing Dignity workshops in 11 Upazillas in Gaibandha, Kurigram, Satkhira and Patuakhali districts.
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Annual Global Dignity Day Celebrated in Bangladesh and Around the World
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Thousands of young people will be inspired to make a positive impact by recognizing dignity in themselves and othersOctober 15 is Global Handwashing Day, a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. Friendship observed Global Hand Washing Day and National Sanitation Month at its different working areas and organized a rally, discussion session and cultural program to raise awareness on using safe water, proper sanitation and hygiene practices among the community.
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Friendship’s Inclusive Citizenship sector arranged two day-long visit for Community Paralegals of Gaibandha district to Gaibandha District and Session Judge Court on 24th and 25th September 2018 to facilitate awareness building and familiarization with the legal system and get real-life, hands-on experience of court proceedings which will help them when they provide services to the community members from Friendship Legal Information Booth. They also visited Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Executive Magistrate Court, Gaibandha Bar Association, District Legal Aid Committee (DLAC) Office, Public Prosecutor (PP) Office, Government Pleader (GP) Office and General Registration Office (GRO).
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Nicolas Depoorter from Friendship France was recently interviewed by Antonin Thel at Le Simone - Coworking/Café to talk about the Rohingya crisis and Friendship’s response.
Over 700,000 Rohingyas have been forced to flee violent persecution in Myanmar. Since October 2017, Friendship has been on the ground to provide lifesaving support to the Rohingya and we need your help. Please donate: friendship.ngo/rohingya/
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Gender Responsive Adaptation in Floodplain
A joint research was conducted by DFID - UK Department for International Development and IDRC / CRDI to develop, identify key issues and deeper knowledge on highland, lowland interaction; capacity building and policy engagement on climate resilience and adaptation in the mountains and floodplains of the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra river basins. As part of this initiative a final national seminar on ‘Climate Change Adaptations at River Basins: Upstream and Downstream Linkages’ was held in Bangladesh where Runa Khan spoke as a panellist on 'Gender Responsive Adaptation in Floodplain'.
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