Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published April 30, 2019 · Last modified June 20, 2019
Back to 2006. Vientiane, capital of Laos has the greatest concentration of urban poverty in the country, with little or no access to basic rights for the most marginalized people. With limited skills and...
by Friends-International · Published April 17, 2019 · Last modified April 12, 2019
Preparing for the future Looking for the right kind of employment to suit their skills and abilities can be intimidating for many young people. They can be unsure of what training or other opportunities...
No choice but to go? Human beings have always migrated. Conflict, natural disaster, even politics play a role in forcing people to move, and often they have no choice but to do so. However,...
ChildSafe Alliance / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published March 17, 2019 · Last modified February 19, 2020
Friends-International Thailand (FITH) has been working in the Wat Thai and Rong Wai communities of Bangkok for many years now. Most of the children from these communities, where many families and their children lack...
by Friends-International · Published March 7, 2019 · Last modified March 8, 2019
12 year old Sinoun* was in very real danger of dropping out of school completely when the #everydayheroes of our social work team met her. Life was proving to be extremely challenging as she...
An EverydayHero's life / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published February 26, 2019 · Last modified February 28, 2019
About 30 kilometers south of Vientiane lies a huge dumpsite: the city landfill. Impossible to miss when driving on Road 13: trash as far as the eyes can see, mountains of garbage piling up...
Keo* is originally from a small Hmong community in Luang Prabang province, Laos. He used to live with his parents, his brother and five sisters. His father is growing rice in the land next...
On 2nd December 2018, more than 160 supporters of Friends gathered in Siem Reap, Cambodia to run the Angkor Wat International Half Marathon. Many others sponsored our runners who raised over $30,000 to support...
25th Anniversary / 3PC / Celebrations / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Movement / Events / Futures Factory / Launches and Openings / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published January 3, 2019
2019 is a very important year indeed for Friends-International. August will mark 25 years since the launch of the very first Friends program, Mith Samlanh, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 25 years on, and that...
As a child, Davin, her parents and two sisters shared a one-room wooden shack in one of Phnom Penh’s slums. Her mother sold second-hand clothing at a nearby market and her father worked in...
Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published December 13, 2018
My name is Bo Vibol and I am twenty-three years old. I now work as a motorbike mechanics teacher’s assistant in Friends’ vocational training program, but I used to be a scavenger on the...
by Friends-International · Published December 5, 2018 · Last modified February 17, 2020
Abandoned by her mother when she was three years old and then abused by her aunt during her teenage years, Saroeun had a rough start in life. At the age of 17, she decided...
Conferences and Awards / News From Our Programs / TREE Alliance
by Friends-International · Published December 5, 2018
This fascinating and exciting update on TREE Alliance at Gastromotiva 2018 comes via Anton Ventslav, TREE Chef Coordinator, based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. “TREE Alliance was among those invited to the 2nd ever Social Gastronomy Summit, ‘Gastromotiva...
ChildSafe Movement / Friends-International / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published November 20, 2018
ChildSafe Movement are delighted with the recent recognition of leading travel business G Adventures as the first ChildSafe Certified Global Travel Organization. Certification involved a stringent review of G Adventures processes and policies to...
3PC / ChildSafe / ChildSafe Movement / Friends-International / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published November 8, 2018
In Cambodia, Friends-International has worked closely with the Government, other agencies and partnerships such as 3PC, for over ten years now in ending the plight of the thousands of children who have been unnecessarily...
More
