‘That Was The Year That Was’ – 2013 In Friends!
As we stand on the cusp of 2014, and the 20th Anniversary of Friends-International, please join us in looking back over the last 12 months of our activities and just some of the...
Tagged: ChildSafe
Together, Protecting Children!
Friends-International’s ChildSafe Network is absolutely delighted to have been awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in the field of Child Protection in this week’s Responsible Tourism Awards, held at the World Travel Market in London. We are...
The Milk Of Human Kindness?? The Siem Reap Baby Milk Scam.
We have noted the continued concern from members of the expat community in Siem Reap, Cambodia, about a ‘Milk Scam’ run by some beggars in the city center. Instead of asking for money they...
Help Us Win The Skoll Challenge!
The Skoll Entrepreneurship Challenge is a major online fundraising event, launching on September 30th . It will run for eight weeks, and 57 organizations, including Friends, will take part in this global challenge which...
Japanese Youth Goodwill Mission Makes Friends with Friends!
In the past few weeks our HQ in Phnom Penh has hosted several visits from Japanese University study groups and rights-based organizations, fostering not only greater understanding of our work but alongside that the...
Join the ChildSafe movement
WHAT IS CHILDSAFE? Wherever people travel they become immersed in a new community and what they do and how they behave there impacts upon that community, especially on the children. In countries where the...
‘Mission in Manila’! CYTI and ChildSafe promoting partnership and child protection.
This update comes from our dynamic duo of Sebastien Le Mouellec (CYTI Alliance) and Khemreth Vann (Tito from ChildSafe), who are currently swimming around Manila in the Philippines supporting partners there and creating new...
Happy Birthday M’Lop Tapang!
Saturday 1st June 2013 was a very exciting and important day in Cambodia. Not only did International Children’s Day fall on that date, but it was also the day that our long-standing partner organization,...
Indonesia Blog #1 – ‘Gettin’ started in Jakarta’
Things are moving fast for our Teman Baik program in Indonesia. Country Program Director, Ghislain, gives us a unique insight on their progress. This, a rare opportunity for us to show you how Friends programs...
A Week Of Sharing (and more!) At Friends
This week has seen Friends Board Members, Program Directors, International Coordinators, managers and staff from across the world gathering together in Phnom Penh at the FI HQ building for our annual sharing meeting. This...
Learning together, sharing together! M’Lop Tapang come to Bangkok!
Cambodian Sihanoukville-based NGO M’Lop Tapang is a long standing Friends CYTI Alliance partner. Within the CYTI Alliance, sharing of best practice is a key outcome for Alliance members. So it was with great excitement...
Selecting Parent Representatives for Mith Samlanh
(This post from our new Cambodia Communications Officer, Menghourng Ngo) Last Friday morning at Club Friends Mith Samlanh hosted the Parent Representatives Selection which aims to find excellent and talented messengers to transfer information...
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....
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...
Street Children, Free Meals, & Lessons Learned.
We’ve been asked many times for our thoughts on ‘soup kitchen’ projects which provide free food to street children. Although often set up with best intentions and supported by people who really want to...
