Catching up with old Friends.
12 July 2010 Day 5 – Luang Prabang to Xieng Kuang First thing this morning we went to the Kao Soi noodle place to have breakfast and to take some more pictures to go...
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More chili please!
11 July 2010 Day 4 – Luang Prabang Ghislain started the day earlier and got up at 5:30 am to take some more photos of Luang Prabang town. The morning light is great for...
Tails in the stew
10 July 2010 Day 3 – Villages just outside of Luang Prabang This morning we were meeting three different ethnic villages to cook with them and get their special recipes. The villages are about...
New Mobile Drop in Center for Aceh
Teman Baik has a new mobile drop –in center in the Social Department Center in Aceh, Indonesia. The mobile center in the Social Department Center is for marginalized children and youth (who may be...
Some of us are blessed…
9 July 2010 Day 2 – Luang Prabang We started the day at 5am by going to see the monks giving alms. It is very picturesque with the beautiful morning light and it was...
Geting used to early morning starts!
8 July 2010 Day 1 – Vientiane to Luang Prabang We were supposed to leave Vientiane at 7:30am but the driver, our guiding star Ket and our cooking teacher Madame Vone arrived 45 minutes...
Making Friends (cookbook) in Laos
Ever since we started our project in Laos and knew there was going to be a restaurant, we knew we just had to make a Lao cookbook too. Our other two cookbooks, The Best...
Cambodia Today – they are ‘Friends’
Friends the Restaurant in Phnom Penh is hosting a great new exhibition by photographer Malik Boltener, a mosaic made up of over 250 of portraits of students and staff at Friends. The series in...
Mith Samlanh’s CREATE hit the stage
Students from Mith Samlanh’s ‘CREATE’ dance group performed a short piece at the annual Hip Hop Festival at the French Cultural Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 4 and 5 June 2010.
Fashionable rubbish?
25 curious students from the Lycée Descartes, recently discovered how Friends is making recycling fashionable. As part of this year’s school theme ‘the environment’, the students could see for themselves which recycled materials Friends-International...
My first day (and only free lunch) at Friends
A story from Pierre, CYTI Alliance Coordinator Once upon a time in Phnom Penh, in the Kingdom of Cambodia, a young French guy (that’s me), came to work as a volunteer with Mith Samlanh....
It’s pARTy time at Romdeng
Friends-International will be celebrating its 15 year anniversary with a special exhibition of children’s art and a cocktail party at Romdeng in Phnom Penh. The exhibition will feature a selection of wonderful artworks by...
CYTI Alliance Partner AYO Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Project Alternativas & Opportunidades (AYO), a CYTI Alliance partner in Honduras, celebrates is 20th anniversary on 30 May, 2010. We wish them a very happy anniversary and congratulate them for all the important support...
Friends-International in Bangkok (Peuan Peuan program)
The recent unrest in Bangkok, Thailand has had a direct effect on children and youth in the capital and also affected the services that Peuan Peuan (Friends in Thai) team has been able to...
