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
Our lastest articles and stories
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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Police urge further cooperation and coordination with NGOs, Friendship in particular, to curb crime and ensure law and order.
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Police, NGO men relationship emphasised to curb crimes
The officials and the staff of NGOs could play significant role to curb and prevent crimes and eradicating social evils to build a peaceful society through providing their cooperation to the policeA big thanks to #DailyStar #lifestyle magazine for featuring #Contic #B613, a traditional wooden malar boat with the largest extant sail in South Asia!
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Friendship's Founder and Executive Director, Runa Khan regarding COP25, the state of the environment and the case for investment in loss and damage
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Plastic waste has become an immense problem, particularly in developing nations like Bangladesh where recycling and disposal facilities are limited. This move by the High Court should curb the climatic effects
#plasticsban #Bangladesh #climatechange
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Bangladesh to ban use of single-use plastic in hotels and restaurants
Bangladesh's High Court on Monday ordered the government to ban single-use ...Alhamdulilah
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A big thanks to #DailyStar #lifestyle magazine for featuring Colours of the Chars! #traditional, #handmade, #naturaldye #ecofriendly lifestyle items are available in road 12, Banani, Dhaka!
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On the frontline of the climate emergency, Bangladesh adapts
#climatechange #ClimateAction #Bangladesh #DisasterManagement
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On the frontline of the climate emergency, Bangladesh adapts
Farmers in delta lowlands are discovering innovative answers to floods and stormsFriendship works together with both the local govt and the community, thus coordinating and integrating aid programs to expand the effectiveness and financial capacity as a whole to maximize benefit; a strategy which has worked very well so far and shown much fruition” - Kazi Amdadul Hoque, Head of CCADM, Friendship
#icccad #cidrr #naturaldisaster #DisasterManagement #Bangladesh #climatechange #ClimateAction
More than 1,200 homes destroyed and 500 million animals killed by Australian bush fires. Winds threatening to spread damage further.
#climatechange #ClimateAction #bushfire #australia
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Strong winds whip up Australian bushfires
Powerful gusts up to 80mph are threatening to spread the huge fires raging in New South Wales."Friendship and other NGOs who have worked with development or DDR, have to think about new design criteria; their long-term impacts and how to integrate them.
We will have to design the strategy in a way that we don’t have to train the next generation; instead they grow up learning it school and college" - Dr. Saleemul Huq - Director, ICCAD at a National Consultation held on CIDRR approach to reduce disaster risk by ICCCAD and Friendship
#ICCCAD #CIDRR #naturaldisaster #disastermanagement #Bangladesh #climatechange #climateaction
“The local government has chronically suffered from underfunding; a problem very well understood but difficult to solve. Rather than bringing shelter to people, we should bring people to shelter” - Dr. A. Atiq Rahman, ED - Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies at a National Consultation held on CIDRR approach to reduce disaster risk by ICCCAD and Friendship
#ICCCAD #CIDRR #naturaldisaster #disastermanagement #Bangladesh #climatechange #climateaction
