Our students open up about working with Marum
As our students and teachers were busy preparing for the opening of Marum, we took them aside (very quickly!) to ask them what is was like serving customers during the restaurant’s soft opening and...
Category: News From Our Programs
Marum – ‘Tree of life’ opens in Siem Reap
Today Marum, our new training restaurant in Siem Reap, opens its doors to the public. Restaurants and Friends are inextricably linked – back in August 1994 Sebastien Marot was leaving one in Phnom Penh...
Thursday afternoon under a tree…
1.30pm – Arriving early from their communities, they waited under a large tree in a Pagoda near Andong. It’s been two years since Mith Samlanh organized the first Emotional Support Group for People Living...
Together, Building Futures – Vuthy’s Story
What does our tagline ‘Together, Building Futures’ really mean? For the young man in this story, it means many others working alongside him to help him shape a better tomorrow for himself… and his...
The wait is almost over… Marum is nearly ready for business!
The wait is almost over… all the renovation,restoration, preparation and perspiration over the last few months is about to come to fruition… Marum is nearly ready for business! Marum is the new TREE Alliance...
From the outskirts of Phnom Penh to the garbage site of Siem Reap – in the field with Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith
As part of the 3PC Partnership Programme for the Protection of Children, Friends-International works together with nine civil society organizations (CSOs) in five provinces in Cambodia to strengthen child protection systems through capacity building...
Social Enterprise in Cambodia – Building the Future
This Saturday (25th August) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the second conference on Social Enterprise to be held in the country will take place. It will bring together academics, researchers, practitioners and policy makers from...
Global Village – An International Journey with Friends.
An article by Marko, our Serbian Human Resources Advisor. His folk dance for Global Village was something to see… “We have the highest number of women who have won the Miss World competition… per capita”...
Cham Chao – where inner city issues meet the outskirts of the city
In this post James, our Communications Coordinator, goes on a field visit to the Kaliyan Mith Cham Chao project on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, to find out how inner city problems are being...
ChildSafe Hotline Helps In Search For Missing Young Woman
On Thusday 19th July, Mot Srors, an 18 year old woman from Lor village in the Samroung Tong District of Khompong Speu Province, Cambodia went to the Thnal Torteng Market in the District....
18 Years with Friends – Buntha.
As Friends turns 18 years old today, we join our longest serving staff members who share their memories of joining and working with us over the years… living examples of the truth behind our tagline, ‘Together,...
18 Years with Friends – Oum Mean.
As Friends turns 18 years old today, we join our longest serving staff members who share their memories of joining and working with us over the years… living examples of the truth behind our...
The sprawling Rongkleu market, it’s invisible boundaries, traders, travelers and workers – and Friends.
Vuthaya Charoenpol (Ann) is the Country Program Director of the Friends Peuan Peuan program in Thailand. She is based in Bangkok, but in our ‘story from the field’ from her today, we travel with...
A Day In The Life – Peuan Mit Outreach Team Leader
In this edition of ‘A Day In The Life’ we are introduced to Khampam, outreach team leader at Peuan Mit. My name is Khampam and I have been working for Peaun Mit since the...
Sosense Education Matching Campaign
Sosense, a Swiss social enterprise platform, has chosen Friends-International as one of six ‘inspiring organizations’ for its Education matching campaign. This campaign begins Monday, July 16th and will run for two weeks until Friday,...
