A day on the streets in Bangkok
The entire Friends-International team in Bangkok (including the admin team) recently conducted a one-day survey on street children in Bangkok. The survey was to try to find out how many street children there are...
Category: An EverydayHero’s life
Seb’s Teddy Bear
From: Pierre Cairo, Egypt I’ve now been to Cairo five times to work with FACE Egypt, our local CYTI network partner. We’ve been helping the FACE team for a year now, assisting them to...
How to Become a Scorpion
From: Sebastien Cairo, Egypt Coming from Phnom Penh, via Amsterdam (in winter) and arriving in Cairo is quite a culture shock. A overcrowded city of 20 million and 4 million cars (as a man...
Recycling in a Relocation Site
From: Ghislain Phnom Penh, Cambodia Over the last five years, Friends-International has trained more than 100 Cambodian parents who now get a regular income from producing our funky bags and wallets from recycled newspapers...
Shiny hair, nails AND classrooms!
From: Natalie Phnom Penh, Cambodia After receiving some wonderful funding from The Australian Embassy, I am very excited to announce…..we have now begun the building renovations for the Beauty/Hair training rooms at the school....
Shuffling Occupations
From: Tracy Phnom Penh, Cambodia Smoothly ironed blue skirt, crisp white shirt, blue bag and big smile, she walks proudly through the gates of her new school. Today is the first day. Before being...
Phalla’s Story
From: Sophea Phnom Penh, Cambodia Phalla is a former Mith Samlanh student who started studying at Mith Samlanh in 1997. Phalla recently came back to Mith Samlanh to proudly show off her High School...
A Surprise Encounter
From: Mark Vientiane, Lao PDR During my last visit to Vientiane, Lao PDR, I bumped into someone of my childhood past. Recognizing my name, Amy, who now works at UNICEF, said she had met...
Dark-Haired Tortilla Sellers
From: Tracy Mexico City, Mexico Boarding Pass in hand. Next stop Taipei. LA and then Mexico, where hopefully a cheery-faced Mexican in sombrero is standing next to Pierre, to take us to our hotel....
Scavenging Village
From: Sophea Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia It was 8:30 am at the Mith Samlanh center. Getting on the back of a motorbike just behind my colleague, Bunroeun, who works with the Drug Team, I...
