The Principle behind Friendship’s Response to Emergencies Radi Shafiq, Senior Manager, Friendship In his 2012 book entitled “Antifragile”, the mathematical statistician Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb introduces the world to the term “Antifragility”, which he defines...
Rohingya
Silent Catastrophe
The terrors the Rohingya people fled are well known to the world. But in their new reality, many continue to suffer from psychosocial conditions. by Maliha Khan Nurun Nahar must return home to her children. Half an hour stolen between feeding her family breakfast and...
Sadia: Linguist, Volunteer, Diagnostician
Narrated by: Bipasha Khatun, Friendship Medical Assistant at Balukhali 1 at the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar National (FDMN) camps in Ukhiya: I came across a little girl who was helping the medical assistants usher in patients. Named Sadia, this 7-year-old was also...
MoU Signed Between Friendship and DGHS
A MoU has been signed between Friendship and the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to start operation of a comprehensive maternity centre (CMC) at the site of Friendship’s basic clinic 6, at Rohingya Camp 7, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar. The United Nations High...
Beyond Survival
Giving the Rohingya community tools to light their own future two years on from the Terror. by Naushad Ali Husein Latifa Begum’s job is to deliver babies to life. But she remembers a moment two years ago, when she lost the will to preserve her own. The Myanmar...
What Friendship Means to Me
To commemorate friendship day, we present to you the meaning of friendship, as expressed by children in our schools. Samima Age: 10 Friendship Learning Centre Rohingya refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar Song of Friendship Mst. Jasmine Akther Grade: IV Friendship School, Sidhai...
Reflections Over a Latte
Naushad Ali Husein’s cream cheese bagel turns bitter in his mouth It shouldn’t be so easy to forget the story I just heard. An hour ago, I was seated around a table of people trying to keep their emotions under control as a birth attendant told us her survival story....
Hopelessness the Root of Moral Degradation
In August 2017, when thousands of Rohingya families arrived each day, fleeing from genocide across the border, before the government and humanitarian agencies could set up the most rudimentary settlements, it was the locals who opened up their own homes to give the...