Phnom Penh tragedy – An udpate from Friends
Dear friends of Friends Thank you so much for your numerous messages of support. After the tragic stampede, 20 children were missing from the Mith Samlanh centers in Phnom Penh and for 24 hours...
Friends-International Together, building futures.
BIG smiles on our faces – Friends TEC’s first international order heads to Europe!
The opening of Friends-International’s Training and Employment Center (TEC) in Phnom Penh in early July 2010 saw major changes in our approach to production. Founded on our experience of setting up workshop based production...
Countdown in Laos
Our last week in Laos was extremely busy as we still had to complete the other half of the dishes. Thanks to the support of our amazing team, we finished all of the dishes...
A FIRST FOR ‘FRIENDS’ IN THAILAND
Friends-International has become the first international NGO in Thailand to sign up to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which brings together the Royal Thai Government and other agencies to address the issue of the...
Picture This
The students at Mith Samlanh continue to win recognition (and prizes! ) for their artistic abilities – three thought-provoking images on the theme of ‘families’ from Chum Panha (13) and Thy Sokunthea (15) were...
An unusual competition…
Last Saturday, The Makphet team was invited to take part in a local competition to create dishes made with insects. The event took place in Vientiane and many restaurants competed. Madame Vone and the...
What do Cambodian elephants eat?
From: Ghislain, Technical Advisor Vocational Training Businesses Phnom Penh, Cambodia This morning I went on outreach with the Mith Samlanh staff and a group of beauty students who volunteered to do manicures and pedicures...
Back to Laos on Monday
Ghislain and have been back in Cambodia for three weeks which seem to have flown by, leaving us with less time than we’d have liked to work on the cookbook. There has so much...
August’s FUN FAIR will be making headlines
The NEWS sets the scene for August’s FUN FAIR on the 14th of August, starting at a new time, from 8am to 12pm at the Mith Samlanh Center on street 13. This FUN FAIR...
A spicy Hmong feast
24 July 2010 Day 17 – Village at Km 52 Today we visited Cheng’s and Yearh’s village about 50 km outside of Vientiane capital, where they were going to cook traditional Hmong dishes for...
Back in the kitchen
23 July 2010 Day 16 – Vientiane I went to Makphet this morning to meet up with our cooking teacher Madame Vone, to go through all the dishes and recipes we have collected during...
Last day of traveling. For now.
22 July 2010 Day 15 – Khammuan province to Vientiane We started our day at 5:30 am. It was still raining, but that didn’t take anything away from the beauty and peace of the...
A sensory workout
21 July 2010 Day 14 – Savannakhet to Khammuan province Today is a big day for us. This we’ll be meeting a lady the makes a very famous fish Kao Peak. Then we’ll go...
A close encounter with an angry buffalo
20 July 2010 Day 13 – Pakse to Savannakhet The day started with another good breakfast so I knew it was going to be another good day. We decided before moving on to Savannakhet...
A coffee hangover?
19 July 2010 Day 12 – Pakse to Phakson district We left early this morning to drive to the Bolaven plateau to see the coffee plantations and to visit the Laven ethnic people, who...
