Runa Khan Empowered women are all around us. If we just look beyond the narrow, domestic role that even today, most societies assign us, we find that every woman has within her, incredible dignity, courage and resilience in the face of adversity. For example, take...
Friendship Community Paralegal leaves a legacy of saving lives. by Raeed Abd-Allah Chowdhury In March 2020, when factories shut down overnight as the country went under lockdown to combat Covid-19, it cut millions of daily wage earners from their incomes. Watching...
As Friendship continues its Friends and Heroes campaign highlighting everyday heroes who work silently at the frontlines of the global challenges that shape our world today, we’d like to introduce you to some of them: Ambition speaks for itself Dipti Rani had a lot of...
Friendship receives support from the International Bar Association (IBA) in the context of a program helping frontline legal aid workers who face additional challenges arising from the Covid-19 crisis. Nominated by IBA’s member firm, Elvinger Hoss Prussen, the support...
External review finds Friendship Education Program to be replicable globallyCode of Ethics component to provide inspiration for national curriculum reviewEducation Minister invites Friendship to replicate its schools in her constituency After running primary and...
by Marc Elvinger, Chairperson, Friendship Luxembourg ”To systematically measure the changes that occurred in children due to the implementation of Friendship Education Program’s extracurricular activities, we incorporated a component called ‘Empathy and Awareness’ in...
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...
As schools remain shut, Friendship’s digital lessons are shared nationally by Niamh Rowe Currently, due to COVID-19, 50% of students across the world are learning from home. At the virus’s peak in April, that figure stood at 90%, impacting 1.8 billion students,...
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...
Friendship’s community leaders stand by villagers facing Covid-19 lockdown If you’re reading this on a device connected to the Internet, in a space with adequate lighting and sound roofing, staying home is easy. For Lavli, whose home is a one-room corrugated iron hut...