People have been forced to relocate due to the floods damaging their homes, in both rural and urban areas. © Friendship by Friendship News Desk,September 5, 2024 Several districts in Eastern Bangladesh have been inundated due to deadly flash floods this August,...
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...
Flash floods have inundated 11 districts in Eastern and Southern Bangladesh within the last few days. © Chadni Akter by Friendship News DeskAugust 25, 2024 Deadly flash floods have ravaged eastern and southern Bangladesh since 21 August. The victims are in dire need...
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...
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...
Friendship founder calls for solidarity in building resilience to cope with natural disasters An elderly woman just inside of her inundated house in Kheyar Alga in Kurigram, on June 22, 2021. ©Tawhid Bin Haque/Friendship by Runa KhanJune 28, 2022 Bangladesh is reeling...
4.3 million affected in less than a week With their homes completely inundated, the villagers of Kheyar Alga, Kurigram have taken to living on boats. They have removed the walls from their tin houses to minimise damage from the current of floodwaters. ©Tawhid Bin...
The worst is yet to come in Friendship working areas in Kurigram and Gaibandha Friendship flood volunteers assisting local community members in moving a house ©Md. Motiur Islam/Friendship Friendship News DeskJune 20, 2022(updated June 21, 2022) With the north-eastern...
Young volunteer rescuers spring into action during climate disasters Shahjadi Begum on the spot where her home was before the flood by Naushad Ali HuseinNovember 21, 2019 Shahjadi Begum woke up at 1 a.m. to find the river roaring through her veranda. Before going to...
Bangladesh, a low-lying, deltaic country criss-crossed by 300 rivers and streams is at the forefront of climate change. In the southern coastal belt, lies the village of Jhapa, in the sub-district of Shayamnagar, in the district of Sathkhira. If that sounds remote,...
Floods in Bangladesh hit 5 million people A Woman leaves with a clutch of medicine from an emergency medical camp in Sundarganj, Gaibandha. PC: Jakariya by Naushad Ali HuseinAugust 5, 2019 Jasim Uddin has managed to get within a stone’s throw from his home by boat....
Humanitarian services remain open despite catastrophic monsoon On what was previously just a hilly forest, The Kutupalong Expansion Sites which shelter some 600,000 of a million Rohingya people living in Bangladesh were built in a matter of weeks. Denuded two years...