FRIENDSHIP SCHOOL STUDENTS OPTIMISTIC DESPITE TRAVELLING MILES AWAY FROM HOME TO SIT FOR NATIONAL MATRICULATION EXAMS Friendship Secondary School students prior to the start of one of their SSC examinations. ©FRIENDSHIP by TAHMEED CHAUDHURYSeptember 21, 2022 Tenth...
Friendship’s health workers are working hard to change the prevalent culture of giving birth at home Ayesha Akhter, a Friendship health worker consulting a new mother and child at the camps. ©Tahmeed Chaudhury/Friendship by Tahmeed Chaudhury September 21,...
Ambassador H.E Ito (green vest) handing over the keys to Friendship, one of the ambulances on the left. ©Suman Ghosh/Friendship Friendship News Desk September 13, 2022 The people of Japan donated 3 ambulances to Friendship for use in the Rohingya camps to ensure...
A volunteer checks on her saplings at a Friendship mangrove nursery. ©KM Asad/Friendship Friendship News DeskSeptember 7, 2022 Friendship’s mangroves afforestation project has been selected as one of the 20 best-practice examples of Forest and Landscape...
Friendship partners with Summit Group to build a new solar village Summit and Friendship officials at the signing ceremony in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 23 August. ©Suman Ghosh/Friendship by Raeed Abd-Allah Chowdhury, August 24, 2022 Yesterday on August 23,...
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...
Architecture exhibition for Kashef Chowdhury visited by Bangladesh ambassador The ambassador listens to a poet also attending the event, in front of a model of a Friendship Learning Centre at the Rohingya camps. ©Friendship by Raeed Abd Allah ChowdhuryAugust 8, 2022...
Quality service and free surgeries draws patients from far and wide to Friendship floating hospitals Al Amin travelled 200km to have his mother and grandfather's cataracts operated at Friendship's floating hospital. ©Orjan Ellingvag by Aquibul Islam Tanzil, Naushad...
Friendship founder Runa Khan selected as one of three champions as Malala Fund’s Education Champions Network launches in Bangladesh Runa Khan, founder, Friendship, speaking at the event on the 25th in Dhaka. ©Tahmeed Chaudhury/Friendship by Tahmeed ChaudhuryJuly 27,...
Friendship and Housing and Building Research Institute (HBRI) develop cyclone resilient housing for disaster-prone coastal communities The first of the four pilot cyclone resilient houses, now completed, and its new occupants. ©Friendship by Tahmeed ChaudhuryJuly 25,...
Friendship school student succumbs to illness from floodwater by Naushad Ali HuseinJuly 25, 2022 The Brahmaputra River had swollen early, flooding its low-lying islands. On Saturday, June 18, 2022, 10-year-old Mohammed Ashib Babu went to school. He attended classes...
An FCM risks displeasing her village elders to save her son from a snake bite by Raeed Abd-Allah ChowdhuryJuly 21, 2022 The sedimentary deltas of Bangladesh, called chars, are some of the most climate-affected places in the Bangladesh—and the world, affected by...