The 40-bed hospital situated in Balukhali caters to 90% of the reproductive healthcare requirements in Ukhiya © Friendship by Iffat Ara Sharmeen18 June 2025 Despite declining global humanitarian aid, Friendship Hospital Ukhiya continues to be a beacon of hope by...
Dignity
The hands that build the world must be protected
Friendship's founder on the importance of health workers on May Day by Runa Khan,1 May, 2025 When health fails, hope fades. Whether in a city factory or on a remote river island, when the body gives way, when pain becomes routine and healing remains out of reach,...
Celebrating our Inherent Dignity
Public school students took part in the Global Dignity Day drawing competitions as well. © Friendship by Iffat Ara Sharmeen,October 23, 2024 On October 16, 2024, Friendship School students celebrated Global Dignity Day, echoing the powerful voice of dignity and the...
Dignity on a Canvas
Friendship schoolchildren define dignity through their creative expression as part of twentieth-anniversary celebrations. by Tahmeed ChaudhuryDecember 7, 2022 How would dignity look on a canvas? On Global Dignity Day 2022, artist Ehsan Protik, founder of creative...
Living with Dignity, as Told Through the Eyes of Children
Friendship kicks off its twentieth-anniversary celebrations with a painting workshop on Global Dignity Day. Some of the children participating in Global Dignity Day 2022 in Gaibandha, Bangladesh. ©Suman Ghosh/Friendship Friendship News DeskOctober 31, 2022 Friendship...
Dignity: The worth of a human being
‘We cannot solve all the problems in this world. But this is a problem that we all can’ FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKNovember 10, 2021 Why is it that we treat people differently based on what they do? Why do we assign a lower status to a janitor or a rickshaw puller? From an...
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...
Global Dignity Day Celebrated in Bangladesh and Around the World
Students and eminent leaders share inspiring stories on human dignity recognizing their own self-worth and the dignity in others Students and eminent leaders at the Global Dignity Day Celebration 2019 in Dhaka Hundreds of thousands of young people around the world...