FRIENDSHIP BANGLADESH
About us
Over the last 15 years, Friendship has grown from being a distant dream to an organisation delivering vital services to 4.2 million people in the most marginalized communities of Bangladesh. Our work wouldn’t be possible if not for the 1,600 people dedicated to helping those in need.
Also crucial to our organisation is Friendship International. Formed over the years by a passionate group of people from Luxembourg, France, the UK and the Netherlands, Friendship International helps us foster partnerships, mobilise funds, gain expertise and raise awareness of our unique methodologies. More than partners, this group believes in the core values, ethics and work of Friendship. Together we are building a solid organisation that makes real changes to communities outside the economic mainstream, whilst retaining the dignity of the people who live within them.
Some of our projects
ICT-AIDED SCHOOLS:
Educating the Unreachable
Stories brought to you from the field
Some are luckier than others – immediately next to each other, inequality is clearly visible in these communities.
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A second wave of floodwater rushes has affected 62,400 people and taking in 55 unions in Kurigram. The situation of the people of Kurigram has worsened (source: NDRCC). Thousands of people have lost their crops and their source of livelihood. While the pandemic was already tough on them, now they have also lost their homes and land to the devastating water. To minimise their distress, Friendship has been providing food relief packages to the flood-affected people.
Good initiative
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Practicing what is preached – the same safety precautions that are taught in awareness sessions are used in the sessions themselves.
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Our heartfelt gratitude to Shapla Salique, Farooque Bhai Project, Rabab Ahmed and Wajed Islam for joining to our cause by participating in The Horizon Sessions.
Friendship is supporting The Horizon Sessions to collect funds to establish COVID-19 testing booths in rural Bangladesh. Also, part of your donations will be utilized by Uttaran NGO to rebuild homes, reservoirs and embankments that have been destroyed by Amphan.
Learn more about The Horizon Sessions & the donation process from this link: bit.ly/2N
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Muddy, stagnant water, lack of hygiene facilities, and other effects of the floods quickly start to mount concerns. Friendship’s FCPs offer door-to-door services.
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People in the char areas often shift home due to losing their home to erosion or flood. And that constant migration and losing valuables leaves them to lead to vulnerable marginalised life. ‘Education can bring hope to a community like that’ with that hope Runa Khan established portable Friendship schools for the remote char communities which can shift along with the community.
Watch Runa Khan’s interview with Harvard Business School to learn more about these portable schools and the changes they offer to these vulnerable communities which was recently featured under the HBS Creating Emerging Markets project that provides a unique research and teaching resource on business.
It is a such good initiative to teach the vulnerable children in char, erosion and flood prone areas. Very well done!
Very well said. Mashallah - Friendship is doing a phenomenal and innovative job in the remote char areas under your leadership. May Allah bless you'll. 👏👏👍
I liked the ethics training part especially for the government officials first as Madam humorously put it, "Apnara chore dhorte dhorte nejerai chore hoye jacchen."
Excellent initiative. Its really help full for poorest people
Excellent discussion...
Dear apu. Perhaps YOU Are right.
Excellent discussion...
Well done
No words in my tongue that can express my gratitude to Friendship for their priceless work in char areas to educate children.
Very well said. Mashallah - Friendship is doing a phenomenal and innovative job in the remote char areas under your leadership. May Allah bless you'll. 👏👏👍
Join The Horizon Sessions to enjoy incredible music performances from Shapla Salique, Farooque Bhai Project, Rabab Ahmed and Wajed Islam.
Friendship is supporting The Horizon Sessions to collect funds to establish COVID-19 testing booths in rural Bangladesh. Also, part of your donations will be utilized by Uttaran NGO to rebuild homes, reservoirs and embankments that have been destroyed by Amphan.
Learn more about The Horizon Sessions & the donation process from this link: bit.ly/2N
“You need to have a very clear vision. The tools to reach that vision can change. Of course, today you have technology. Tomorrow you don't. You have areas that are poor. You have areas that are rich. But that singularity of vision needs to be very clear.” said Runa Khan, Founder and Executive Director of Friendship in her interview with Harvard Business School.
Read more about her journey with Friendship and the changes Friendship has offered to the marginalised char people which was featured under the Creating Emerging Markets project that provides a unique research and teaching resource on business:
Runa Khan - Creating Emerging Markets - Harvard Business School
www.hbs.edu
Interview with Runa Khan, interviewed by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 17, 2019, Creating Emerging Markets Oral History Collection, Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Busin...Great job.....Go ahead friendship ....
Long live our Apa
Great fan of friendship
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Our heartfelt gratitude to Arnob, Md.Zohad Reza Chowdhury, Imran Rahman and Tashfee for joining to our cause by participating in The Horizon Sessions.
Friendship is supporting The Horizon Sessions to collect funds to establish COVID-19 testing booths in rural Bangladesh. Also, part of your donations will be utilized by Uttaran NGO to rebuild homes, reservoirs and embankments that have been destroyed by Amphan.
Learn more about The Horizon Sessions & the donation process from this link: bit.ly/2N
Sir Any Employment opportunities please Best Regards
Have you woken up to find a foot of water under your bed and throughout your house, having flooded everything? That is a yearly reality for the people of the northern river islands of Bangladesh. And this year, they have seen the worst of it; the pandemic, a cyclone, land erosion and now they are also facing the fury of the imminent flood.
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“Our experience in the field has shown that gaining the trust of the communities in which we operate is a key component of success. Trust can only be built up over time by providing consistent and reliable quality services and earning the respect of the people we work for. Friendship doesn’t work through short-term projects, but ensures its commitment to the communities on a long term basis.”
Runa Khan, Founder and Executive Director of Friendship Bangladesh
HELPING THE POOR IN REMOTE AREAS
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Contact Friendship Bangladesh
Friendship Bangladesh
Ka-14/2A, Baridhara North Road
(Kalachandpur), Dhaka – 1212, Bangladesh