A Day In The Life – One Mother’s Story
In this edition of ‘A Day In The Life’ we are introduced to Vany, a single mother from Cambodia living on the streets of Bangkok. Peuan Peuan is the name of Friends-International’s program in...
Category: An EverydayHero’s life
A Day In The Life – ChildSafe Hotline Manager
In this edition of ‘A Day In The Life’ we are introduced to Bunna, a ChildSafe Hotline Manager and student. My name is Bunna and I work as the Hotline Manager for the ChildSafe...
A morning spent monitoring
A story by our AYAD volunteer Allan. It is early morning when Heng gently taps me on the shoulder, smiles and asks if I’m ready. We are to visit and monitor a former Mith...
A Day In The Life – Electricity Vocational Training From Home
In this edition of ‘A Day In The Life’ we are introduced to 17 year old Kosal, a Mith Samlanh Electricity student. 17-year-old Kosal is one year into a Vocational Training program in Electricity....
A Day In The Life – Hairdressing Vocational Training From Transitional Home
Welcome to ‘A Day In The Life’, a new series of stories about our students. This is the first of many that we will be released throughout the year. The first edition looks at...
Siem Reap dump-site project
I have recently returned from a quick trip to Siem Reap and our project on the dump site in the city. With the support of SK Dreams and Hina Foundation, the project is now...
Unexpected juxtapositions – My first week at Friends
A story from Allan, Phnom Penh. At one stage I counted ten young street children injecting heroin in the alley around me. Monks slowly walked by on their morning alms. For a Westerner it...
What do Cambodian elephants eat?
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...
Friends Building “No Future”
From: Sebastien Banda Aceh, Indonesia Tamo and I arrived in Aceh and went straight to the office to meet the team. The first thing we saw was our Mobile Center: it is entirely tagged...
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....
My first day at Friends. I’ll never forget it.
A story from Ghislain, Phnom Penh. Friends is turning 15… while I’ve only been working here for 2 years. That doesn’t make me the best person to tell you all the stories but I...
Back at the beginning…
A story from Denis and Annegret, Paris 15 years ago, our son Sébastien suddenly said to us: “I am bored working at L’Oreal. I’m tired of being in an office and shampoo is not...
Friends-International teams get creative to overcome financial crisis
Pierre and Ghislain try busking to raise much needed funds to cover their food and lodging costs while training local NGO partners in Tegucicalpa, Honduras. Tour details coming soon…
Here we go!
From: Maiwenn Phnom Penh, Cambodia Having our products included in the latest edition of Courrier International is another one of the great outcomes of Friends-International and Mith Samlanh’s Home Based Production project. It is...
Thoughts on school from Peuan Mit students
Two of the students recently reintegrated into public school in Loas talked to their housemother about school, Peuan Mit and what they want to be when they grow up.
