Inclusive Citizenship is working to empower people with disability on the chars Sumaya with the toys that keep her at home ©ABIR ABDULLAH/FRIENDSHIP by TAHMEED CHAUDHURYApril 27, 2022 In Koraibari, a river island (char) in Gaibandha district, a grinning Tawhid guides...
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...
Surplus energy from solar village project powers irrigation for farming; farmers’ lives made easier by Tahmeed ChaudhuryMarch 15, 2022 By the time Mominul Islam, a farmer in Goyar Potol, a river island in Kurigram, took home his harvest this winter, he had already...
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...
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...
by TAHMEED CHAUDHURYFebruary 21, 2022 On February 21 2022, Friendship schools across the country celebrated Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day by hosting commemorations and paying tributes to the martyrs of the Language Movement. The annual event,...
RTV’s Chare Jibon Jemon’s third episode gives us an inside look at why underage girls in the chars remain vulnerable to marriage by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYFebruary 14, 2022 Friendship collaborated with national television network, RTV recently to air a mini-series...
Solar Power Grid Lights Up River Island by Raeed Abd-Allah ChowdhuryFebruary 13, 2022 The sedimentary deltaic islands that scatter the northern and southern tips of Bangladesh appear as they disappear—without warning. Floodwaters rush over the banks, and the land...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYCz5Bpu_DA FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKJanuary 10, 2022 The Sundarbans. The world’s largest mangrove forest. A source of livelihood to millions. A provider and a protector. Over the last few decades, cyclones, erosions, and tidal surges...
Life and survival in the Sundarbans—a photo essay photos by AJ GHANItext by NAUSHAD ALI HUSEINDecember 30, 2021 Much of coastal Bangladesh, the areas around the Sundarbans—the world’s largest continuous mangrove forest—is in a state of transformation. In some areas,...