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...
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Harnessing the Power of the Sun
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,...
Left in the Wake
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...
Close to Home from Far Away
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...
Restoring eyesight
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...
Educating girls for a world where equality prevails
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,...
Stronger against disasters
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,...
A lethal dose
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...
Science Before Superstition
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...
Expanding educational facilities in the Rohingya camps
Friendship launches the reconstruction of a resource centre to train teachers and instructors in the Education of Rohingya Children designed by Children at one of Friendship Learning Centres, this one in particular designed by award-winning architect, Kashef...
Connected across continents for climate change education
Inter-School Connectivity Project (ISCP) brings Friendship school students from the river island areas and French students together to discuss climate change and share knowledge and experience Students at the Friendship Secondary School Nawshala speaking to their...
A village under water
Residents of char Kheyar Alga spend more than 20 days living on boats during Kurigram Flood What used to be a newly-formed island not even two years ago has been, at least temporarily, returned to the waves. ©Tawhid bin Haque/Friendship by Tahmeed Chaudhury June...