Friendship’s health workers are working hard to change the prevalent culture of giving birth at home Ayesha Akhter, a Friendship health worker consulting a new mother and child at the camps. ©Tahmeed Chaudhury/Friendship by Tahmeed Chaudhury September 21,...
Ambassador H.E Ito (green vest) handing over the keys to Friendship, one of the ambulances on the left. ©Suman Ghosh/Friendship Friendship News Desk September 13, 2022 The people of Japan donated 3 ambulances to Friendship for use in the Rohingya camps to ensure...
The big question on World Refugee Day 2022: Could the developed world’s generous response to Ukraine be coming at the cost of funds for other humanitarian crises? Unaware of his future and that of his brother's, he looks to a bleak sky for answers that are to this day...
Sports club on wheels brings the joy of playing to Refugee and host communities in Ukhiya by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURY April 28, 2022 With Eid-ul-Fitr just around the corner, many in Bangladesh and around the world are readying themselves for a celebration. After...
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....
Enfin une avancée considérable pour les réfugiés Rohingya établis sur Bhasan Char(ENGLISH VERISON BELOW) Vue aérienne de Bhasan Char (photo © Runa Khan) October 27, 2021 Mettant un terme à une impasse d’un an, le Gouvernement du Bangladesh et les Nations Unies ont, en...
by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYJuly 29, 2021Updated: August 2, 2021 Years after they escaped extremely violent persecution in the Rakhine State, the Rohingya population can’t catch a break. Six people have died and over 3,851 shelters destroyed by floods and landslides...
Runa Khan urges donors and development agencies to step up aid efforts A woman enters Bangladesh with her baby in her arms, and a life shattered by genocide behind her. ©SYED WASAMA DOJA Four years after 800,000 Rohingya people entered Bangladesh, fleeing genocide in...
Diarrhoea patients lying on the floor of the overwhelmed hospital in Bhasan Char, a new home for Bangladesh's Rohingya refugees. © FRIENDSHIP by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYUpdated: June 23, 2021 Four people have died in an outbreak of diarrhoea in Bhasan Char—an island...
Introduction of the event Bangladesh continues to generously host nearly 900,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, with some 740,000 fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine State in the aftermath of violence and persecution in August 2017. Nearly four years on since the mass influx,...
Runa Khan addresses the inaugural session of the International Dialogue on Migration 2021 Initiated in 2001, the International Dialogue on Migration (IDM) is the principal forum for migration policy dialogue of the International Organization for Migration (IOM),...
situation overview At around 3pm on March 22, 2021, a devastating fire broke out in camp 8W of the Kutupalong camp network which houses some 880,000 Rohingya refugees who fled genocide in adjacent Myanmar. Fueled by dry weather and breeze, the fire quickly spread to...