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...
Resilience
Des arbres pour le climat et la résilience – Trees for climate and Resilience
Friendship Luxembourg lance une campagne de collecte de fonds pour la plantation d’arbres de mangrove au Bangladesh. Quatre euros = 1 arbre planté. Objectif : des milliers d’arbres pour renforcer la biodiversité et les écosystèmes protecteurs des populations...
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...
The Key to Antifragility
The Principle behind Friendship’s Response to Emergencies Radi Shafiq, Senior Manager, Friendship In his 2012 book entitled “Antifragile”, the mathematical statistician Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb introduces the world to the term “Antifragility”, which he defines...
Build for the crises to come
While we work to protect our communities and our countries against Covid-19, we need to also prepare them to deal with the climate crisis, writes Runa Khan. It feels as though nature has left humankind reeling, our sense of vulnerability siphoned collectively towards...