Standard Chartered Bangladesh joined hands with Friendship to transform lives and livelihoods across one of the Brahmaputra’s most isolated river islands. by Friendship News DeskApril 08, 2024 Chars are some of the most climate-vulnerable places on Earth. To alleviate...
The Evolution of Friendship’s Rural Solar Electrification Project The solar villages power homes, markets, schools, mosques, shops and other essentials all at the same time. © Friendship by Colton SummersOctober 30, 2023 In 2009, Friendship’s electrification project...
Friendship and Standard Chartered team up to build a 54kW microgrid in Ulipur, Kurigram The MoU signing ceremony at the Friendship head office with the team from Standard Chartered. ©Ayon Das/Friendship by Raeed Abd-Allah ChowdhuryNovember 20, 2022 Following the...
Friendship partners with Summit Group to build a new solar village Summit and Friendship officials at the signing ceremony in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 23 August. ©Suman Ghosh/Friendship by Raeed Abd-Allah Chowdhury, August 24, 2022 Yesterday on August 23,...
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...
Solar Power Grid Lights Up River Island by Raeed Abd-Allah ChowdhuryFebruary 13, 2022 The sedimentary deltaic islands that scatter the northern and southern tips of Bangladesh appear as they disappear—without warning. Floodwaters rush over the banks, and the land...
Friendship’s solar micro-grid on a remote sandbar island could serve as a renewable energy model for other hard-to-reach communities in Bangladesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX7e2k_NTxw by NAUSHAD ALI HUSEINAugust 31, 2021 Since 2000, Bangladesh has gone from 32%...