The announcement was made at the gala dinner of the 15th Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility at the Kempinski Hotel, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
Dr Naheed Nazrul (Team Leader, Hospital service), Dr Mohammad Atiqullah Sayeed (Programme Specialist- Hospital Service, Healthcare Population and Nutrition), Syed Wasama Doja (Head, Cultural Preservation) and Runa Khan (Founder and Executive Director) from Friendship were present at the ceremony.
Friendship has been working for over 14 years in Bangladesh, trying to take development initiatives to the hardest to reach people. It has been able to take healthcare, education, financial assistance, governance, disaster management, and other services to more than 4.2 million people in the northern river island and southern coastal belt area of Bangladesh.
Lifebuoy Friendship Hospital (LFH) started its operation on March 13, 2002, being the first floating hospital in Bangladesh. It has been the flagship project of friendship since its inception with an aim to provide essential primary healthcare. This is the most successful and innovative model of CSR involvement of Unilever with the healthcare program for the poor and marginalised community. Till now LFH has provided more than 600,000 services to the marginalised population.
Friendship has established a strong three-tier model that has already been replicated twice after LFH. This model is reliable and replicable in taking the healthcare solution to everyone.