Everyone, despite socioeconomic circumstances or physical ability, has the right to quality healthcare, and it is imperative that we work together to provide it. A Friendship floating hospital which offers life-saving, life-changing, essential medical services to...
Friendship News DeskMarch 17, 2023 Despite a consistent and impressive GDP growth rate, and success in many areas of development, including primary education and family planning, 51% of Bangladeshi girls are married off before the age of 18—the third-highest rate of...
Friendship carried out a weeklong surgery camp at its floating hospital to operate burn patients and raises awareness on preventable burn injuries A child with burn injuries undergoing a change in dressing after surgery. ©QUDDUS ALAM/FRIENDSHIP by Tahmeed...
20 things that make Friendship the organisation that it has grown to be by Raeed Abd-Allah ChowdhuryNovember 6, 2022 Since its inception, Friendship has had to innovate to meet the requirements of the unique geo-logistical, socio-economic, and environmental challenges...
Communities in Friendship’s working areas in Patuakhali and Shyamnagar remain largely unharmed By Tahmeed ChaudhuryOctober 26, 2022 In the build up to the landfall of the cyclone Sitrang, it was expected that the tropical storm will wreak havoc across the nation,...
Friendship’s health workers are working hard to change the prevalent culture of giving birth at home Ayesha Akhter, a Friendship health worker consulting a new mother and child at the camps. ©Tahmeed Chaudhury/Friendship by Tahmeed Chaudhury September 21,...
Ambassador H.E Ito (green vest) handing over the keys to Friendship, one of the ambulances on the left. ©Suman Ghosh/Friendship Friendship News Desk September 13, 2022 The people of Japan donated 3 ambulances to Friendship for use in the Rohingya camps to ensure...
Molida Akhter, saviour of 45 endangered residents of Goynar Potol char, is recognised for her contributions as a volunteer Molida Akhter saved 45 women and children when she was only 19 years old. © Tahmeed Chaudhury/Friendship by Tahmeed ChaudhuryAugust 28, 2022 On a...
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...
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...
Residents of char Kheyar Alga spend more than 20 days living on boats during Kurigram Flood What used to be a newly-formed island not even two years ago has been, at least temporarily, returned to the waves. ©Tawhid bin Haque/Friendship by Tahmeed Chaudhury June...