Celebrating the accomplishment of two Friendship School students for the International Day of the Girl Child Girls are often deprived of opportunities, education, jobs and the agency to determine their future. That needs to change.© Friendship by Iffat Ara...
OB-GYN Expert, Professor Jelle’s Take on Cervical Cancer Screening by Iffat Ara Sharmeen,October 7, 2024 PRESCRIP-TEC researcher and obstetrics and gynaecology expert Professor Jelle Stekelenburg recently visited Friendship’s working areas in northern Bangladesh. He...
A cultural lifeline and catalyst for social change in remote char communities by Ahmed Toufiqur Rahman,October 8, 2024 The char lands of northern Bangladesh are a unique landscape, formed by the deposition of sediments carried by rivers like the Brahmaputra, Jamuna,...
Friendship Mangrove Afforestation Programme Shared at IUCN Conference Communities are put in charge of the mangrove plantations that they nurture, and then reap the benefits from. They protect the saplings, and the matured trees protect them in turn. © Friendship by...
Building a Just and Sustainable Tomorrow by Runa Khan,September 16, 2024 In late August, during my trip to Nepal, I had the pleasure of sitting down for an engaging coffee meet with some of Nepal’s most promising young leaders. The gathering brought young minds of...
An intern from Germany on the variety of architecture styles across the country’s least and most populated regions. The traffic in Dhaka is second to none, and can be sensory overload for those not sufficiently prepared. © Haakon Hoeren by Haakon Hoeren,September 11,...
Floods not only take lives, but also destroy livelihoods, destabilise the local economy and set communities that are already marginalised much further back. © Friendship by Abu Bakar Bin Alam,August 20, 2024 Frequent natural disasters like flooding were one of the key...
The youth are our collective future, and through July and August, they have proven just how much they are willing to do to control their destinies. © Friendship by Runa KhanAugust 20, 2024 Mid July to the beginning of August, Bangladesh witnessed a monumental shift as...
In July and August of 2024, massive upheaval by the nation’s youth led to what is now being called ‘Bangladesh 2.0’ After a month of violent clashes with law enforcement leading to 600+ deaths, the protestors finally had their demands met. © Shadab Shahrokh Hai. by...
by Runa Khan, August 6, 2024 My pride, belief and love for the people of Bangladesh, has always overridden any sadness I felt for our lives not being what we all deserved to have. All my life I felt the disbalance, and for the last 22 years it is what I craved for...
We must not let empty boxes and unkept commitments at SB60 discourage us from doing what needs to be done Friendship's mangrove afforestation project works with local communities to preserve the saplings, which sequester carbon, act as a natural embankment, reduce...
Five days a week, children aged between 6 and 18, come to the sports centre - a joint collaboration of Friendship SPO, KLABU and Paris Saint Germain - to play football, basketball, cricket, futsal, badminton, and sepak takraw Groups of children dressed in colourful...