The terrors the Rohingya people fled are well known to the world. But in their new reality, many continue to suffer from psychosocial conditions. by MALIHA KHANMarch 12, 2020 Nurun Nahar must return home to her children. Half an hour stolen between feeding her family...
Rohingya crisis
Retour sur la conférence / Look back on the conference “Restoring dignity, maintaining hope. How much can a humanitarian organisation do”
Chères amies, chers amis Dear Friends of Friendship (translation below) Vous avez été 165 personnes à assister à notre conférence «Restoring Dignity, Sustaining Hope: How much can a humanitarian organisation do?” de mardi dernier, 12 novembre, à la Banque de...
Conference in Luxembourg – 12th November 2019
Restoring dignity, maintaining hope – How much can a humanitarian organisation do? Two years into the Rohingya refugee crisis, Friendship organises a conference in Luxembourg with the participation of Mrs Paulette Lenert, Minister for Cooperation and Humanitarian...
MoU Signed Between Friendship and DGHS
A MoU has been signed between Friendship and the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to start operation of a comprehensive maternity centre (CMC) at the site of Friendship’s basic clinic 6, at Rohingya Camp 7, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar. The United Nations High...
Beyond Survival
Giving the Rohingya community tools to light their own future two years on from the Terror by Naushad Ali HuseinAugust 28, 2019 Latifa Begum’s job is to deliver babies to life. But she remembers a moment two years ago, when she lost the will to preserve her own. The...
What Friendship Means to Me
To commemorate friendship day, we present to you the meaning of friendship, as expressed by children in our schools. Samima Age: 10 Friendship Learning Centre Rohingya refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar Song of Friendship Mst. Jasmine Akther Grade: IV Friendship School, Sidhai...
Reflections Over a Latte
Naushad Ali Husein’s cream cheese bagel turns bitter in his mouth It shouldn’t be so easy to forget the story I just heard. An hour ago, I was seated around a table of people trying to keep their emotions under control as a birth attendant told us her survival story....
No raincheck at Rohingya camp
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...
Hopelessness the Root of Moral Degradation
Dark clouds hang over the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar. ©SYED WASAMA DOJA/FRIENDSHIP FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKJuly 2, 2019 In August 2017, when thousands of Rohingya families arrived each day, fleeing from genocide across the border, before the government and humanitarian...