Friendship Presents their Work at International Conference by Raeed Abd-Allah Chowdhury Friendship disaster volunteers doing the rounds to spread awareness during the Covid-19 pandemic Friendship’s Climate Action team presented its successes in using volunteerism to...
Friendship represents climate-impacted communities at global climate summit by Dorothee ter Kulve, Chairperson, Friendship Netherlands Global leaders and local stakeholders convene during the Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS2021) organized in the Netherlands on 25 and...
(English version below) Dans le cadre de la Journée Nationale de l’Arbre à Luxembourg, sous le patronage du Ministère de l’Environnement et avec la participation du Grand-Duc héritier Guillaume, la Fondation Hëllef fir d’Natur (naturemwelt.lu) invite tout le monde à...
On October 10, 2020, Friendship hosted a roundtable conference which gave a national platform to grassroots organisations working at the forefront of the struggle against the climate crisis. Fifty-three grassroots organisations battling climate disasters in some...
On October 10, ahead of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, Friendship brought together grassroots actors in disaster management together with the Honourable Minister for Disaster Management and Relief, high officials from the Department of Disaster...
A prescription for pragmatic disaster risk reduction solutions On October 10, ahead of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, Friendship brought together grassroots actors in disaster management together with the Honourable Minister for Disaster Management...
The key to adaptation lies in listening intently to locals and communities at the forefront of the climate crisis by Runa Khan, founder and executive director, Friendship In 2004, I was visiting our hospital ship in the river islands (chars) of the Brahmaputra. This...
Coastal communities hope to gain protection and prosperity from mangrove plantations by Naushad Ali Husein Ibrahim Hossain’s home has been flooded with seawater for five months. On May 20, super-cyclone Amphan ripped through the southern coast of Bengal, sending tidal...
A whole village disappears under water, yet the community continues its schooling. Mamotaz Begum’s village is at the bottom of the river. Where there were once homes of some 350 families, among lush corn and paddy fields, vegetable gardens, a mosque, shops—only the...
The Principle behind Friendship’s Response to Emergencies Radi Shafiq, Senior Manager, Friendship In his 2012 book entitled “Antifragile”, the mathematical statistician Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb introduces the world to the term “Antifragility”, which he defines...