{"id":238,"date":"2021-06-11T14:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T14:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2021-10-04T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:38:18","slug":"friendship-associations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/friendship-associations\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b>Society-Switzerland Bhutan (SSB)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Established in 2000, SSB was founded with the mission to encourage social, charitable, ecological, cultural and other philanthropic projects. Over the years, SSB has worked closely with various public and private organizations in Bhutan to further strengthen the unique bonds of friendship between the people of Bhutan and Switzerland. The Bhutan-Switzerland Society (BSS) is the local sister organization of SSB. The President of SSB is Mr. Claudio Zingg.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b>Austria \u2013Bhutan Society<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Austria-Bhutan Society (ABS) was established in March 1998 with the objective of promoting people-to-people contact between the two countries. The Society undertook various activities and projects in Bhutan such as construction of a community school at Pangtoka, Trashiyangtse, establishment of Druk-Yul park in Vienna and provision of scholarships. The Austrian Bhutan Society contributed EUR 10,000 to His Majesty\u2019s Kidu Fund for COVID-19 on 7 June 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The President of the Society is Dr. Claus Walter.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b>Friends of Bhutan Association, Austria<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Association was established in 2018 under the name \u201cFriends of JDWNR Hospital &#8221; when a medical project was supported. In 2019, the Association was re-named \u201cFriends of Bhutan Association, Austria&#8221;. The Association <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contributes to a partnership between Austria and Bhutan and supports social, cultural, and medical institutions in Bhutan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The President of the Association is Ms. Liselotte Waldheim-Natural.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b>Society of Friends of Bhutan in Austria<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Society of Friends of Bhutan in Austria, together with the Austrian Development Agency supported a project to improve the living conditions of the student monks in Pangri Zampa by providing the monastic community there with. The Project was completed in November 2009.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b>Norway-Bhutan Friendship <\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Society-Switzerland Bhutan (SSB) Established in 2000, SSB was founded with the mission to encourage social, charitable, ecological, cultural and other philanthropic projects. Over the years, SSB has worked closely with various public and private organizations in Bhutan to further strengthen the unique bonds of friendship between the people of Bhutan and Switzerland. The Bhutan-Switzerland Society &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}