FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
RIBA International Prize 2021
Our Vision
We are an international Social Purpose Organisation guided by our vision of a world where people — especially the
hard-to-reach and unaddressed — have equal opportunities to live with dignity and hope.
Our mission
From Bangladesh, a country facing the most pressing of humanity’s challenges, we develop scalable solutions to strengthen marginalised communities, and empower people to transform their lives and reach their full potential.
Our values
Integrity
Dignity
Justice
Quality
Hope
Our commitments
… to the people we serve.
To reach our vision and fulfil our mission, we apply our 5 core values in all our actions. Since 2002, we deliver needs-based services to the communities with a participative and inclusive approach. Through an innovative, integrated development model and an entrepreneurial mindset, we achieve sustainable outcomes, trying to leave no one behind…
Saving Lives
Climate adaptation
Empowerment
Poverty alleviation
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French-Polish Physicist and Chemist Marie Curie is also the only person to win the Noble Prize in two different fields as well as the first woman to win a Noble Prize.
#EqualAndEmpowered
Friendship’s hospital ships move from island to island, serving each location for 2 to 3 months before moving on. At any given moment, they are physically accessible to a small fraction of the char population. Satellite clinics and community medic-aides ensure that those beyond the reach of hospitals still get the care they need.
#CaringForCommunities
#PeopleHelpingPeople
#HealthForAll
It is the first time ever that Friendship secondary school students have participated in the Math Olympiad. Overcoming all hurdles, out of the 9 students, Eusuf, Rehena, Sumi and Ebrahim have become regional champions.
Despite not having access to urban facilities of education and math coaching due to living at the chars, they have excelled beyond the expectations and limitations. Becoming role models for others.
They have proven that all it takes is sincerity, hard work and encouragement.
#BdMO2022 #BetterFuture
These villagers would have been stranded without food or healthcare services in the midst of the flood, were it not for Friendship's emergency services.
#TogetherForClimateChange
#PeopleHelpingPeople
#ClimateJustice
Japanese author Murasaki Shikibu’s masterpiece The Tale of Genji, published around 1000 AD, is still revered today for its observations about court life and has been translated into dozens of languages.
#IWD2022
What opens the way for sustainable growth is a sense of harmony and comradery where all parties have mutual respect and opportunity. Values must be nurtured on the basis of equality, and not the desire to put the opposite gender down.
In alignment with Friendship’s IWD 2022 theme of #EqualAndEmpowered, our Executive Director Runa Khan speaks on the importance of nurturing values that uphold equality and fairness.
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