Career guidance cell assists Friendship School students gain admission to renowned universities Friendship Primary School alumni Afsana Akter, Amina Khatun and Muktara Parvin (left to right) all set to embark on a new journey as students of the Asian University for...
Empowerment
Dignity: The worth of a human being
‘We cannot solve all the problems in this world. But this is a problem that we all can’ FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKNovember 10, 2021 Why is it that we treat people differently based on what they do? Why do we assign a lower status to a janitor or a rickshaw puller? From an...
Here Comes the Sun
Friendship’s solar micro-grid on a remote sandbar island could serve as a renewable energy model for other hard-to-reach communities in Bangladesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX7e2k_NTxw by NAUSHAD ALI HUSEINAugust 31, 2021 Since 2000, Bangladesh has gone from 32%...
What it means to be a citizen
How Friendship is saving lives by bridging marginalised citizens to vital services and what other organisations can learn from this. Each and every citizen should have access to services and benefits that cover their basic needs. © K M ASAD by LEOPOLDO MONCADAAugust...
Connectivity for Climate Action
Friendship School students in char areas to get virtual exchange programme with European counterparts Friendship launched a project connecting its secondary school students from remote river island communities in Bangladesh with their counterparts 8,000km away in the...
Exposition de bateaux à Luxembourg
L'artisanat du BANGLADESH S’EXPOSE À LUXEMBOURG(ENGLISH VERSION BELOW) Lieu : Friendship Pop-Up Store, 33 Grand Rue, L-1661 Luxembourg-VilleDates : de mars à fin juillet 2021Horaires : 11h – 18h du mardi au vendredi et 10h – 18h le samedi Au cours de l'été 2010, les...
Keepers of the traditional craftsmanship
Mohammad Abdul Halim’s story As a young boy, Halim left school to work on his father’s ship as a cook and errands boy. In those days, that was how an apprentice sailor began. He slowly worked his way up until one day the captain decided he was ready to manage his own...
Empowered and Equal
by RUNA KHANMarch 14, 2021 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...
Selfless till the End
Friendship Community Paralegal leaves a legacy of saving lives. by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYMarch 14, 2021 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...
Empowered Heroes
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...
Support from the International Bar Association for legal aid workers
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...
Empowered for a Brighter Future
External review finds Friendship Education Program to be replicable globally Code of Ethics component to provide inspiration for national curriculum review Education Minister invites Friendship to replicate its schools in her constituency After running primary and...