Friends-International Together, building futures.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
18 July 2010 Day 11 – Pakse We finally had a good night’s sleep and a very nice breakfast, so we were ready for a full day of discovery and adventure. Ket had organized...
17 July 2010 Day 10 – Vientiane to Pakse Last night we had some drinks with the Peuan Mit team and some very interesting snacks such as chicken knuckles or tendons, fried eel, beef...
16 July 2010 Day 9 – Vientiane I went to Makphet this morning to meet up with Madame Vone our head cooking teacher, and Mr Sene our restaurant manager, to go through our notebooks...