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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Outstanding results by Friendship students in national exams
Friendship’s primary and secondary schools in the remote chars and coastal areas have, once again, outperformed their peers around the country.
In the Primary Education Completion Examination (PECE) national pass rate is 97.59% while Friendship schools achieved 100% pass rate. 590 out of 1457 (i.e. 40%) students got GPA 5, the highest attainable grade.
In the Junior School Certificate Examination (JSCE) Friendship schools achieved 98.44% pass rate while the national pass rate is 85.28%.
Friendship provides children access to education in the most remote areas of Bangladesh. To educate a child, donate: friendship.ngo/donate
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Seminar addressing context of char education and the way forward held in Gaibandha
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Read about Friendship Education’s work in the remote, char islands of northern Bangladesh, where access and infrastructure to basic necessities is practically non-existent. The outstanding results in public examinations speak for themselves, featured here at Daily Star.
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The hope of moving-island schools
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Let's travel through a different kind of school today, which goes beyond excellent academic results and ensures students come out with good character and moral strength. However&comm...www.wowwoman.com/founder-friendship-ngo/
Friendship’s very own founder and executive director, Runa Khan got an exclusive feature on WOW Woman, an international platform about extraordinary women and their stories.
Read about our founder and her personal take on her life, her work, her inspirations and aspirations.
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Founder, Friendship NGO, Leader, Educator, Entrepreneur, Cultural Envoy, Paris, France — WOW Woman
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Bangladesh's great river system is the country's principal resource and its greatest hazard. Even without a cyclone in the area, the Bangladeshi coast is often inundated by extr...dailyasianage.com/news/101084/crab-nursery-successful-in-coastal-region
Read about Sushila Rani from Satkhira and Nurjahan Begum from Shayamnagar who are fattening their purses from crab fattening; thanks to Friendship Sustainable Economic Development sector’s fisherman project. The Daily Asian Age special feature is at the link here.
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Crab nursery successful in coastal region | The Asian Age Online, Bangladesh
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Seeing the high demand of juvenile crab many farmers in coastal districts like Satkhira have established crab nursery and successfully changed their financial condition. This is contributing to...www.dhakatribune.com/magazine/2018/09/13/turning-the-tide
Friendship’s floating hospitals were featured in Dhaka Tribune’s, “Turning the Tide”, with a short history on their inception, commission into service, and eventul decommissioning of Rongdhonu Friendship Hospital. Read about the effects they have had by clicking the link.
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How a Bangladeshi NGO is using floating hospitals to take medical care to the people surrounded by water38 theatre artists of three theatre groups - Gaibandha Char Theatre Group, Kurigram Char Theatre Group and Upokul (Coastal) Theatre Group participated in a 6 day long Capacity Development Training for Theatre Artists at Friendship Center, Gaibandha.
The objective of the training session, the second of such this year, was to develop the skills of theatre artists and plays which create mass awareness on different social and contemporary issues and social evils among the marginalized communitie in the remote chars/ communities of Gaibandha, Kurigram and Potuakhali. 4 new plays were developed during the training with the soft launching of the performances.
(Inter)national award-winning actor and professional trainer, Mostafizur Noor Imran, Visual Media Worker and Trainer Munmun Hafiz and Rifat Zinat Jahan, Manager, Char Theatre and Material Development, Inclusive Citizenship were facilitated the training.
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On International Day for Disaster Reduction 2018, Friendship took part in a joint exhibition where the government along with development partners, civil society organizations, academic institutions and other NGOs, who are working together to reduce communities exposure to disaster risks and showcased different Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) practices and approaches.
Honorable Minister of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDM&R) Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya inaugurated the ceremony as the Chief Guest and Dhirendra Debnath Shambu, MP, Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief was Special Guest. The event was chaired by Md. Shah Kamal, Honorable Secretary, MoDM&R.
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2 new Health Clinics have been set up to help Rohingya and local people in Cox's Bazar to stay healthy. In Camp 5 and Camp 6, the clinics have started providing essential health services since last month.
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Friendship has most recently added 2 additional basic clinics that have been inaugurated in support of the Rohingya at the relief camps. Clinic 12 at camp 5 was operational from the 14th November and clinic 13 at camp 6 on the 12th of November.
The Rohingya at the relief camps in Cox’s Bazar are still lacking essential healthcare services, even a year after the start of the current crisis. Providing medical assistance to 700,000 people who have little-to-no-history of medical care throughout their lives is an immense task.
However, Friendship has been seeking to remedy this, in more than one sense, since the start of operations in October of 2017 with a multitude of interventions and installations.
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