The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted inequalities in our world today, where communities are left unaddressed due to lack of access to vital services, extreme poverty and vulnerability to the climate crisis. It has also shown our connectedness, highlighting the fact...
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Everybody Needs Friends and Heroes
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...
Friendship launches Friends and Heroes campaign with Shakib Al Hasan
FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKFebruary 24, 2021 Dhaka, February 15, 2021. Friendship launched its “Friends and Heroes” campaign featuring Shakib Al Hasan, the world’s top cricket allrounder from Bangladesh, to share its vision of a world where people have equal opportunities to...
Covid-19 Combat
A glance at Friendship’s pandemic response Covid-19 was the defining event of 2020. As the novel coronavirus began spreading across the world, proactive societies went into lockdown. It was the surest way to arrest the spread of the mysterious new virus at a time when...
Setting the Adaptation Agenda
Friendship represents climate-impacted communities at global climate summit by Dorothee ter Kulve, Chairperson, Friendship Netherlands Global leaders and local stakeholders convene during the Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS2021) organized in the Netherlands on 25 and...
Empowered for a Brighter Future
External review finds Friendship Education Program to be replicable globally Code of Ethics component to provide inspiration for national curriculum review Education Minister invites Friendship to replicate its schools in her constituency After running primary and...
The way forward – Regarder de l’avant
by Marc Elvinger, Chairperson, Friendship Luxembourg Dear Friends of Friendship,Chers amis, chères amies (traduction ci-dessous), At the outset of this year 2021, I am sharing with you New Year’s greetings from Runa Khan, Founder and Executive Director of Friendship,...
An external evaluation confirms the excellence of the Friendship Education program
by Marc Elvinger, Chairperson, Friendship Luxembourg ”To systematically measure the changes that occurred in children due to the implementation of Friendship Education Program’s extracurricular activities, we incorporated a component called ‘Empathy and Awareness’ in...
Runa Khan at the closing session of the 5th National Humanitarian Conference of France, in the presence of the French President
(VERSION FRANÇAISE CI-DESSOUS) Friendship is proud to share Runa Khan’s speech at the closing session of the 5th National Humanitarian Conference of France, in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian and Nobel Peace Prize...
Communities Leading the Way
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...
Unheard Voices from the Climate Frontier
On October 10, 2020, Friendship hosted a roundtable conference which gave a national platform to grassroots organisations working at the forefront of the struggle against the climate crisis. Fifty-three grassroots organisations battling climate disasters in some of...
Change Can Happen from Bottom Up
On October 10, ahead of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, Friendship brought together grassroots actors in disaster management together with the Honourable Minister for Disaster Management and Relief, high officials from the Department of Disaster...