Friendship teams up with Lalithakala Akademi and Preema Arte Foundation for Kranti Art Exchange Programme between India and Bangladesh Some of the final work on display near the entrance of the Friendship Centre at the end of the workshop. ©Ayon Das/Friendship by...
Friendship head of Inclusive Citizenship, Ayesha Taasin Khan says inclusive legal systems can help to empower women A Friendship Paralegal stands in front of a Legal Information Booth in Chimari, Kurigram. ©Friendship by Ayesha Taasin KhanMarch 12, 2023 On the advent...
Back-to-back economic shocks have triggered insularity in many economies, but in the long run there’s no alternative to global solidarity, says Runa Khan, back from WEF in Davos. Runa Khan, founder of Friendship at the WEF panel in Davos, 2023. © World Economic Forum...
Friendship founder and eminent architects hold panel at Dhaka Lit Fest 2023 Friendship News DeskFebruary 9, 2023 Back after two years of Covid restrictions, the Dhaka Lit Fest was held from January 5 – 8, 2023; which also happened to be the tenth anniversary of the...
A series of testimonials on two decades of work in the most unaddressed communities in Bangladesh The Friendship cyclone shelter in Kuakata, which serves the climate-affected communities of the coastal south of Bangladesh. ©Friendship Friendship News DeskDecember 26,...
by Tahmeed Chaudhury,December 26, 2022 The 27th conference of the parties, otherwise known as COP27, has recently drawn to a conclusion. The two-week-long summit, held in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt went into overtime before coming to an end on November 20. Leaders from...
by Runa KhanDecember 7, 2022 On the twentieth anniversary of our founding, I cannot help but think back on where we started, how far we’ve come, how strongly with dedication we have grown, and also on our hopes for the future. At the turn of the millennium the world...
20 things that make Friendship the organisation that it has grown to be by Raeed Abd-Allah ChowdhuryNovember 6, 2022 Since its inception, Friendship has had to innovate to meet the requirements of the unique geo-logistical, socio-economic, and environmental challenges...
by Kazi Amdadul HoqueNovember 7, 2022 On the bank of river Kholpetua in Bangladesh, a man sits still, his eyes fixated in the direction of the branches of a mangrove tree near the largest mangrove forest in the world, the Sundarbans. The searing heat does not move...
Rangpur division falls behind the rest in SDG metrics A boatman rows by an eroded riverbank, with people standing by to check out their newly-formed boundary line. ©Orjan Ellingvag by Dr. Kazi Maruful Islam,Raeed Abd-Allah ChowdhuryMd Abdullah Al ZobairAugust 14, 2022...