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%...
by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYJuly 29, 2021Updated: August 2, 2021 Years after they escaped extremely violent persecution in the Rakhine State, the Rohingya population can’t catch a break. Six people have died and over 3,851 shelters destroyed by floods and landslides...
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...
Star aerial photographer and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand joins Friendship’s Everybody Needs Friends and Heroes campaign https://youtu.be/fbKs1c-IudQ by NAUSHAD ALI HUSEINJune 29, 2021 The fate of humankind is inextricably linked to that of the planet, and...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4nOLjgoKU8&t=664s Friendship wins film competition at CBA15 by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYJune 22, 2021 A Friendship film about climate challenges and interventions in remote riverine areas of northern Bangladesh has won the film...
Diarrhoea patients lying on the floor of the overwhelmed hospital in Bhasan Char, a new home for Bangladesh's Rohingya refugees. © FRIENDSHIP by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYUpdated: June 23, 2021 Four people have died in an outbreak of diarrhoea in Bhasan Char—an island...
Cyclone Yaas leaves a trail of destruction and a crisis that will worsen https://youtu.be/m38SkL3Q3Bk Overflowing and breakage of embankments in coastal districts has left tens of thousands in Friendship's working areas in distress. With footage from NEWS FLASH 71...