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...
Roundtable meeting on Improving the Living Standard of Northern Char Dwellers of Bangladesh held in Dhaka Runa Khan and Dr. Shamsul Alam at the meeting, along with the rest of the delegation ©Tawhid Bin Haque/Friendship by Raeed Abd-Allah ChowdhuryAugust 4, 2022 A...
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,...
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...
Vernissage de l'exposition 'FARAWAY SO CLOSE' à Luxembourg Le vernissage de l'exposition Faraway So Close, un voyage dans l’architecture de Kashef Chowdhury (URBANA) au Bangladesh, s’est tenu au LUCA (Luxembourg Center for Architecture) le 28 juin dernier.(English...
Friendship Netherlands celebrates 15 years of its founding with a small ceremony at a boat-house The boat sailed across the De Kaag river, between the Hague and Amsterdam for the ceremony ©Wasama Doja/Friendship Friendship News DeskJuly 7, 2022 15 years ago, the...
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...
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...
by Raeed Abd-Allah ChowdhuryJune 26, 2022 The Padma Bridge, a long-awaited, much-hyped and perhaps overdue infrastructural achievement that launched yesterday is more than just a point of pride for Bangladesh, being the deepest bridge in the world and using the...
4.3 million affected in less than a week With their homes completely inundated, the villagers of Kheyar Alga, Kurigram have taken to living on boats. They have removed the walls from their tin houses to minimise damage from the current of floodwaters. ©Tawhid Bin...
Un voyage dans l’architecture de Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA, Bangladesh, du 28 juin au 11 octobre 2022 au Luxembourg Center for Architecture (LUCA)(English version below) Friendship Hospital Shyamnagar. © Kashef Chowdhury Friendship Luxembourg & LUCA - Communiqué...