Homepage

Faces of Friendship

Faces of Friendship

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted inequalities in our world today, where communities are left unaddressed due to lack of access to vital services, extreme poverty and vulnerability to the climate crisis. It has also shown our connectedness, highlighting the fact...

Everybody Needs Friends and Heroes

Everybody Needs Friends and Heroes

It was in March 2019, exactly a year before the Covid-19 lockdown in Bangladesh and all around the world, whilst travelling with us in the climate impacted and remote communities on the river islands of Northern Bangladesh, that global brand advisor Shubhankar Ray was...

Covid-19 Combat

Covid-19 Combat

A glance at Friendship’s pandemic response Covid-19 was the defining event of 2020. As the novel coronavirus began spreading across the world, proactive societies went into lockdown. It was the surest way to arrest the spread of the mysterious new virus at a time when...

Empowered for a Brighter Future

Empowered for a Brighter Future

External review finds Friendship Education Program to be replicable globally Code of Ethics component to provide inspiration for national curriculum review Education Minister invites Friendship to replicate its schools in her constituency After running primary and...

Listen to the women

Listen to the women

A prescription for pragmatic disaster risk reduction solutions On October 10, ahead of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, Friendship brought together grassroots actors in disaster management together with the Honourable Minister for Disaster Management...

Ear to the Earth

Ear to the Earth

The key to adaptation lies in listening intently to locals and communities at the forefront of the climate crisis by Runa Khan, founder and executive director, Friendship In 2004, I was visiting our hospital ship in the river islands (chars) of the Brahmaputra. This...

Roots of Security

Roots of Security

Coastal communities hope to gain protection and prosperity from mangrove plantations A deer among the breathing roots of the Sundarban, the world's largest mangrove. ©SYED WASAMA DOJA by NAUSHAD ALI HUSEIN October 28, 2020 Ibrahim Hossain’s home has been flooded with...

Swept Away

Swept Away

A whole village disappears under water, yet the community continues its schooling. by NAUSHAD ALI HUSEINAugust 27, 2020 Mamotaz Begum’s village is at the bottom of the river. Where there were once homes of some 350 families, among lush corn and paddy fields, vegetable...