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Never too late to learn
Adult women in chars overcoming barriers and transforming their lives through education by Tahmeed Chaudhury October 5, 2023 Johura Begum, 40, lives with her two young children in char Feska, a remote, shifting river island at the heart of the Brahmaputra River in the...
Friendship wins UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy
Programmes recognised for bringing functional literacy to adults and out-of-school youth by Raeed Abd-Allah Chowdhury September 10, 2023 On Friday, September 8, Friendship was awarded the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, in recognition of its contributions...
Collaborative Development course between DU and Friendship draws to a close
The month-long Development in Practice course, designed for graduate students and professionals, ends with a closing ceremony and distribution of certificates By Tahmeed Chaudhury August 27, 2023 The inaugural batch of a summer school course on Development in...
100% SUCCESS FOR FRIENDSHIP SCHOOLS IN SSC EXAMINATIONS
All students, barring one, get A- grades or above By Tahmeed Chaudhury August 14, 2023 48 students, 22 girls and 26 boys, from Friendship Secondary Schools in Nawshala, Sidhai, Batikamari and Paglar Char in the northern river islands appeared for their Secondary...
Summer school development program launched at DU
Friendship Academy, in collaboration with the University of Dhaka and the Learning Planet Institute, inaugurates a month-long summer school course that will begin on August 4, 2023 by Tahmeed Chaudhury July 25, 2023 The summer school course, titled Development in...
Friendship school graduate earns a place in BUET
Mahbubur Rahman, from char Sidhai, has excelled in every public university examination he sat for By Tahmeed Chaudhury Growing up, Mahbubur Rahman had to shift homes five times due to land erosion. Born in a remote hard-to-reach char (shifting sandbar islands), he...
Char voices echo in the European parliament
Two Friendship school students from marginalised char families participate in the European Youth Event (EYE) in France; travels to Luxembourg as well by Tahmeed Chaudhury Born on shifting river islands (chars) of the Brahmaputra, Mosammat Rupali Khatun and Mosammat...
Plastic clean-up: Primary school students lead the way
Friendship organises plastic waste clean-up drive on World Environment Day to sensitise students Friendship News Desk Humans produce more than 350 million tonnes of plastic every year. Only 9 percent is recycled. Half of all plastic waste ends up in landfills, and the...
Empowering Girls Through Education
EGE, a five-year programme to empower girls in rural communities concludes by Friendship News Desk in October 2018, a programme was launched to help the educational and socio-economic development of female/girl children in rural Bangladesh, through the use of...
The Long Road to Med School
Friendship primary school student overcomes a life of struggle and uncertainty to gain admission at the Rangpur Medical College by Tahmeed Chaudhury Ashadul Islam’s family lost everything and relocated thrice in his lifetime due to river erosion. At 15, he had to...
Char Women Set Foot on the Stairway of Dreams
Mostofa Rony (The Daily Ittefaq) Despite the onset of modernity in the country, the dismal situation in the riverine deltas (chars) remains the same, where deprivation and lack of access are the char-dwellers’ constant companions. Where the most basic needs remain...
The love for mother tongue around the world
Friendship school students and their counterparts from Cambodia and Switzerland leave special messages on the occasion of International Mother Language Day by Tahmeed Chaudhury On February 21, 2023, International Mother Language Day was observed in Friendship schools...