Climate Recap

Déc 19, 2019 | Climate Change and Disaster Management

By Benjamin George Coles In May, Cyclone Fani displaced around 3.5 million people in Bangladesh and India. Even before that, around 10 million in Bangladesh had been evacuated due to climate emergencies in recent decades. Friendship works in places that are among the...

COP25 in a Nutshell

Déc 3, 2019 | Climate Change and Disaster Management, News

Saleemul Huq outlines the major talking points at the Conference of Parties The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is a global treaty that was signed and ratified by 195 countries obligating themselves to take actions to protect the planet,...

Shamim’s Woes

Sep 29, 2019 | Education

Shamim Mia is a student of class 8 at a Friendship Secondary School. These secondary schools use a proprietary ICT-aided system that combines lessons that are pre-recorded by teachers from reputed schools in Dhaka, computers and monitors, and solar technology to power...

Memory of Spring

Sep 28, 2019 | Climate Change and Disaster Management

Bangladesh, a low-lying, deltaic country criss-crossed by 300 rivers and streams is at the forefront of climate change. In the southern coastal belt, lies the village of Jhapa, in the sub-district of Shayamnagar, in the district of Sathkhira. If that sounds remote,...

C’est la rentrée – Back to work

Sep 25, 2019 | French Blog, News

Chères amies, chers amis, Dear Friends of Friendship (translation below) C’est la rentrée et pour Friendship, elle se fait sur les chapeaux de roues: A Dhaka, la première boutique Friendship vient d’ouvrir ses portes pour assurer toujours plus de débouchés aux...