EIB, Luxembourg and Bangladesh join forces to combat coronavirus and boost country-wide Covid-19 immunization in Bangladesh FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKMarch 20, 2022 The European Investment Bank (EIB), the bank of the European Union and the largest multilateral lender in the...
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...
Global IWD event features messages, presentations and an award to four extraordinary women Friendship News DeskMarch 10, 2022 Friendship held a global celebration on March 8, as part of the International Women’s Day (IWD) campaign, where Runa Khan awarded four...
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...
by RUNA KHANMarch 7, 2022 Women populate this world. We carry the new generation in our wombs, and we nurse them, we nourish their values and nurture their humanity. In this way, we shape humankind. Thus, when this is dismissed as part of women’s “natural duty”, it is...
Friendship hosts a meeting with journalists ahead of International Women's Day FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKMarch 3, 2022 “Empower just one woman,” was Runa Khan’s appeal to a meeting of empowered journalists from some of Bangladesh’s leading media outlets in the lead-up to...
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...
Friendship operating clinic and three units at government hospital for displaced Rohingya by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYMarch 3, 2022 Friendship has opened a 12-bed Primary Health Clinic (PHC) in Bhasan Char, an island developed to accommodate 100,000 Rohingya refugees....
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,...
Friendship intern Amandine gets a lesson on disaster preparedness from villagers of a climate-impacted community in the south of Bangladesh. COURTESY: AMANDINE BOURGUEIL by AMANDINE BOURGUEILFebruary 17, 2022 Snuggled up in my duvets on a rainy morning, as I used to...
Government of Bangladesh declares St. Martin’s and surrounding areas a Marine Protected Area Boats anchored on the shore at dawn, awaiting the tide and their sailors to take them out to sea ©RAEED CHOWDHURY by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYFebruary 15, 2022 Clean air,...
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...