{"id":297,"date":"2011-04-25T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsinthefield.wordpress.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-04-25T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T07:13:08","slug":"together-united-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/together-united-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Together, UNITED for children!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United footballing legend Bryan Robson paid a visit to our Peuan Peuan Thailand program activities in Bangkok earlier this month, writes <strong>Vuthaya Charoenpol<\/strong>, our country program director for Thailand. Robson, along with Man Utd Foundation Chief Executive John Shiels, was on a visit to UNICEF supported initiatives in the country and saw at first hand the work that our program does with vulnerable children and young people in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_300\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_9553.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300 \" title=\"Man Utd visit 6th April 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_9553.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Shiels and Bryan Robson of Man Utd with Vuthaya Charoenpol of Peuan Peuan at Ban Phumvit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They visited the Pakkred Reception Home (Ban Phumvet) where our program works with boys and young men, both Thai and foreign, who have been rescued from the streets, and spent time talking to Friends-International staff and beneficiaries about the program.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_302\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_9567.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302 \" title=\"IMG_9567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_9567.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Shiels, Man Utd Foundation Chief Executive, sees the work of Peuan Peuan at first hand<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As you can see from these photos (images courtesy UNICEF), the visitors were extremely interested in the work of Friends-International, and very appreciative of the positive impact it has upon the lives and futures of these young people. You can find out more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/wherewework\/thailand.asp?mainmenu=wherewework&amp;page=thailand\" target=\"_blank\">Peuan Peuan program here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_301\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_9562.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-301\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301 \" title=\"IMG_9562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img_9562.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Robson of Man Utd talks to Peuan Peuan Program Manager  in Bangkok, Chanthana Sueprom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United footballing legend Bryan Robson paid a visit to our Peuan Peuan Thailand program activities in Bangkok earlier this month, writes Vuthaya Charoenpol, our country program director for Thailand. Robson, along with Man&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,10],"tags":[59,64,626,170,201,242,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}