Involving the local communities and government is key to the success of mangrove afforestation projects A Friendship Mangrove Community Caretaker works at a nursery of mangrove saplings. Bangladesh has a lot to offer in the fight against the climate crisis, and the...
Architect Kashef Chowdhury's brilliance is recognised yet again, this time with a RIBA award for his Friendship Hospital Shyamnagar © SUMAN GHOSH/FRIENDSHIP FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKJuly 25, 2021 Friendship Hospital Shyamnagar (FHS) has been named one of 16 winners of the...
Lockdown rules eased for Eid; Friendship field staff work on building awareness while adapting programmes to escalating risk As increasing infections stretch healthcare resources everywhere, Friendship hospitals are operating at full capacity through the pandemic with...
Runa Khan urges donors and development agencies to step up aid efforts A woman enters Bangladesh with her baby in her arms, and a life shattered by genocide behind her. ©SYED WASAMA DOJA Four years after 800,000 Rohingya people entered Bangladesh, fleeing genocide in...
by NAUSHAD ALI HUSEINJune 30, 2021Updated: July 1, 2021 As Covid-19 infections and deaths reached new record levels in Bangladesh, the government has imposed a strict lockdown from July 1. Thousands of people rushed to leave the capital city of Dhaka as soon as the...
Introduction of the event Bangladesh continues to generously host nearly 900,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, with some 740,000 fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine State in the aftermath of violence and persecution in August 2017. Nearly four years on since the mass influx,...
A message from Friendship's founder and executive director, Runa Khan On this day, exactly 50 years since we claimed our independence as a sovereign nation, I am proud to be Bangladeshi. I am proud of the struggles we have overcome, the bounty and beauty of our land,...
situation overview At around 3pm on March 22, 2021, a devastating fire broke out in camp 8W of the Kutupalong camp network which houses some 880,000 Rohingya refugees who fled genocide in adjacent Myanmar. Fueled by dry weather and breeze, the fire quickly spread to...
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...
It was in March 2019, exactly a year before the Covid-19 lockdown in Bangladesh and all around the world, whilst travelling with us in the climate impacted and remote communities on the river islands of Northern Bangladesh, that global brand advisor Shubhankar Ray was...
Real Stories of Adaptation from Vulnerable Communities by Runa Khan 100% of the core work of Friendship since it started 20 years ago has been in the most climate-impacted regions in Bangladesh. Whilst working with these vulnerable communities, the one important...
Coastal communities hope to gain protection and prosperity from mangrove plantations A deer among the breathing roots of the Sundarban, the world's largest mangrove. ©SYED WASAMA DOJA by NAUSHAD ALI HUSEIN October 28, 2020 Ibrahim Hossain’s home has been flooded with...