by Raeed Abd Allah ChowdhuryMay 16, 2022 Malala Yousafzai is the poster child for education advocacy, especially of women in remote or rural areas. The Nobel Prize laureate and activist’s philosophies fall closely in line with Friendship’s activities in the riverine...
Women Empowerment
Boy or Girl?
Mother's day: Motherhood is a blessing, but apparently sometimes it’s a frightful game of roulette by MD ABDUL JALIL and NAUSHAD ALI HUSEINMay 8, 2022 Mother's Day is of course a day to celebrate the wondrous miracle of motherhood. But perhaps it's also a time to...
Eradicating the preventable loss of women’s lives
Friendship working to eliminate cervical cancer in Bangladesh by TAHMEED CHAUDHURYMarch 31, 2022 When Asma Khatun, 30, resident of Sundarganj, Gaibandha, found out that she had grown pre-cancerous lesions that could lead to cervical cancer, her world came crashing...
Celebrating Women at Friendship
Global IWD event features messages, presentations and an award to four extraordinary women Friendship News DeskMarch 10, 2022 Friendship held a global celebration on March 8, as part of the International Women’s Day (IWD) campaign, where Runa Khan awarded four...
Empowering Women for a Sustainable Future
by RUNA KHANMarch 7, 2022 Women populate this world. We carry the new generation in our wombs, and we nurse them, we nourish their values and nurture their humanity. In this way, we shape humankind. Thus, when this is dismissed as part of women’s “natural duty”, it is...
A Community of Empowered Women
Friendship hosts a meeting with journalists ahead of International Women's Day FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKMarch 3, 2022 “Empower just one woman,” was Runa Khan’s appeal to a meeting of empowered journalists from some of Bangladesh’s leading media outlets in the lead-up to...
Women of valour
Four Friendship community workers receive awards for their contributions to humanity by TAHMEED CHAUDHURYMarch 3, 2022 In the buildup to International Women’s Day 2022, Friendship has selected four female Friendship community workers as recipients of the Women of...
Curbing Child Marriage
RTV’s Chare Jibon Jemon’s third episode gives us an inside look at why underage girls in the chars remain vulnerable to marriage by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYFebruary 14, 2022 Friendship collaborated with national television network, RTV recently to air a mini-series...
From uncertainty and isolation to a world-class education
Career guidance cell assists Friendship School students gain admission to renowned universities Friendship Primary School alumni Afsana Akter, Amina Khatun and Muktara Parvin (left to right) all set to embark on a new journey as students of the Asian University for...
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...