2024, The Year We Turned 30!
2024, the thirtieth year of Friends-International, is drawing to a close. Let’s spend just a little time scratching the surface of the incredible activities of our #everydayheroes over the past twelve months! Our year...
Tagged: employment
Canada Ensures Salon Successes
A cornerstone of Building Futures During its 30 Years of existence, training for employment has been a cornerstone of the ‘Building Futures’ work at Friends-International. Our vocational training has always developed with market needs...
New Future for a Single Mum
From dangerous work in the entertainment sector, to becoming a successful businesswoman with our support, this is Ut’s story…
Futures At The Fair!
A Big Event The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) organized a Youth Future Fair, which drew over 1000 students and youth from local universities and NGOs to the Royal University of Phnom Penh in...
COVID 19 – Responding To The Global Pandemic
A brief look at a recent report highlighting our range of responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic. (download the full report here) A Year of Global Pandemic Challenges 2020 was an extremely challenging year...
Creating Opportunities – Sok’s Story
Friends-International Futures project works to build futures through access to employment. It also helps by creating opportunities to support people who are seeking to build their futures through small business start up. In Sok’s...
FUTURES in the time of COVID-19 – Part Two
Unlocking Opportunities In Part Two of this look at how the Futures team builds futures in the time of COVID-19, the focus falls on two young women, and the challenges they faced in finding...
FUTURES in the time of COVID-19
Part One In Cambodia in 2016 Friends-International (FI) launched a specialized employment project named Futures alongside their ChildSafe Alliance partner M’lop Tapang. Futures provides employment support, including access to job and training opportunities, hard...
Together Into The Future, Building Futures!
We began our 25th Anniversary celebrations in August 2019. 25 years of finding effective and meaningful ways of ‘Together, building futures’ for the many children, youth, families and communities we call our friends. As...
Together For Employment!
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...
Ending Unsafe Migration
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,...
Employment For All – Futures Thailand!
Access to employment is key in ensuring that individuals will have a stable and sustainable future ahead of them. A couple of years ago we took the years of experience we had in working...
This Giving Season, Build Futures With Friends!
This year, for our end-of-year annual campaign, we are focusing on inspiring stories of the impact our #everydayheroes make in their work. Our first story comes from hospitality teacher Nina, who is based at...
Together, building futures… with ‘Futures’!
‘Futures’ is an exciting new initiative and approach for Cambodia, powered by Friends and implemented by partner NGOs Mith Samlanh and M’Lop Tapang with the tagline – “Together creating employment and entrepreneurs” ‘Futures’ is about...
