Anecdotes of young children awaiting life-changing surgery at the Friendship Hospital Shyamnagar Gerin, a young patient runs down a hallway at Friendship Hospital Shyamnagar by TAHMEED CHAUDHURYApril 11, 2022 Silent prayers, sudden wails, humble hopes of a better...
An orthopaedic camp at Friendship Hospital Shyamnagar brings hope and opportunity to children in the climate-vulnerable coastal belt Maharima being wheeled towards the operating theatre. ©AYON DAS/FRIENDSHIP by NAUSHAD ALI HUSEINMarch 31, 2022 Letting her...
Friendship working to eliminate cervical cancer in Bangladesh by TAHMEED CHAUDHURYMarch 31, 2022 When Asma Khatun, 30, resident of Sundarganj, Gaibandha, found out that she had grown pre-cancerous lesions that could lead to cervical cancer, her world came crashing...
An international volunteer doctor recounts her experiences at a Friendship floating hospital The medical team with Runa Khan, founder, Friendship. PHOTO COURTESY: DR. FINA TOMÀS by DR. FINA TOMÀSMarch 23, 2022 It is a slow, cautious look, perhaps out of fear, perhaps...
EIB, Luxembourg and Bangladesh join forces to combat coronavirus and boost country-wide Covid-19 immunization in Bangladesh FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKMarch 20, 2022 The European Investment Bank (EIB), the bank of the European Union and the largest multilateral lender in the...
Friends and beneficiaries mourn the untimely demise of community paramedic Kabita Samadder by TAHMEED CHAUDHURYMarch 10, 2022 Kabita Samadder joined the Lifebuoy Friendship Hospital, Friendship’s flagship hospital ship, in 2007. She had since then served as a...
by RUNA KHANMarch 7, 2022 Women populate this world. We carry the new generation in our wombs, and we nurse them, we nourish their values and nurture their humanity. In this way, we shape humankind. Thus, when this is dismissed as part of women’s “natural duty”, it is...
Four Friendship community workers receive awards for their contributions to humanity by TAHMEED CHAUDHURYMarch 3, 2022 In the buildup to International Women’s Day 2022, Friendship has selected four female Friendship community workers as recipients of the Women of...
Friendship operating clinic and three units at government hospital for displaced Rohingya by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYMarch 3, 2022 Friendship has opened a 12-bed Primary Health Clinic (PHC) in Bhashan Char, an island developed to accommodate 100,000 Rohingya...
NGOs from a number of countries have called for a major reform in the financing of international humanitarian aid FRIENDSHIP INTERNATIONALJanuary 31, 2022 The following is an English translation of an opinion signed by an international collective of development...