Life on a dumpsite
About 30 kilometers south of Vientiane lies a huge dumpsite: the city landfill. Impossible to miss when driving on Road 13: trash as far as the eyes can see, mountains of garbage piling up...
Category: An EverydayHero’s life
Protect All Children. Migrants Too.
June 1st is International Children’s Day, and on this day we launch our ‘Protect All Children. Migrants Too.’ campaign to help support the forgotten children – the many thousands of migrant children who face...
Talking A ChildSafe Thailand – Pad Chat!
During the recent visit of the Thailand ChildSafe team to our HQ in Cambodia we spent a little time having a brief chat with one of our Child Protection Team #everydayheroes, Ms Pradthana Suwanpiam,...
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...
Chom Chao Stories – 2. Sreynuon
Following the recent blog story from Chom Chao, we hear about another very challenging case from our Kaliyan Mith Chom Chao program manager Siheang… ‘When we first came across 20 year old Sreynuon* she...
7 Tips For Outreach!
Sharing best practice with partners and also between programs is another key element of the Friends approach. So, with this in mind the Mith Samlanh Saving Lives Coordinator Pin Sokhom from Phnom Penh visited Kaliyan...
Kaliyan Mith Siem Reap – Meet The Family Reintegration Team!
We are focusing our posts this week on the work of our Kaliyan Mith program in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Reintegration is a core approach of Friends work – into school, into employment, into society,...
Cross-border Child Protection Networks Grow Stronger Between Thailand And Cambodia
This story of #EverydayHeroes in action comes from Vuthaya Charoenpol (Ann), who is the Country Program Director for the Friends program (Peuan Peuan) in Thailand. Friends works both in Bangkok, and on the Thai/Cambodia...
20 Years Ago…
Friends founder Sebastien Marot reflects on the Cambodia of 20 years ago, and his first day there… ‘20 years ago today (April 1st, 1994), I arrived in Cambodia. I had left Paris on a...
‘Serving Up Futures – Chefs Can Make A Difference!’
In our guest blog today, TREE Alliance Coordinator Gustav Auer talks about his experiences over 14 years of work with Friends… and how if you are a chef who wants to make a difference,...
‘Listen To The Children…’ One Year On… In Jakarta
One year of outreach in Jakarta… Reflections by our Indonesia Country Program Director, Ghislain Morard. “Today it’s been exactly one year since my colleague Endang and I first went for a long walk in...
Pre School In Siem Reap
A great deal has been going on in our Kaliyan Mith program in Siem Reap over the last few months. The old center has closed and relocated to new premises, new training businesses have...
Fostering Care Through Training In Siem Reap
More news comes from Siem Reap on the short term foster care project being run in partnership with Angkor Hospital for Children. The monthly sessions cover relevant topics which build the capacity of the...
ChildSafe Works In Laos
This post about the positive impact of the ChildSafe project in Lao PDR comes to us from Kristi, Technical Advisor to our program there, Peuan Mit. ‘The ChildSafe project in Lao PDR, funded by...
