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Runa Khan is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur and the Founder and Executive Director of Friendship, a non-governmental organization operating in Bangladesh. She founded Friendship in 2002 with a floating hospital known as Lifebuoy Friendship Hospital. The hospital was converted from an oil barge in order to deliver healthcare to remote river islands in North Bengal. . The organization has since added two more floating hospitals to its fleet, through which it claims to serve 140,000 patients a year. Khan won the Rolex Awards for Enterprise in 2006 for work through Friendship to preserve the declining craft of traditional boat building in Bangladesh.

Awards and Recognition

 * 2016- Green Award from Positive Planet Foundation


 * 2012- Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Award


 * 2008- IDB Award for Contribution to Women in Development


 * 2006- Rolex Award for Enterprise


 * 1994- Ashoka Fellowship for Innovative Teaching Methodology