Brewing a Brighter Future
The future is not as dark as the brew Ixora makes every day in the coffee shop where she makes a stable income to support herself and her grandmother. Things were not always this...
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A New Normal In Siem Reap
Back On The Streets Like many across the world, people in Siem Reap, Cambodia have faced difficult times recently. Months of uncertainty, restrictions, school closures, curfews and severe negative economic impacts. However, things are...
Partners in Building Futures
It was our honor to be invited to speak and present to the Cambodian National Committee for Homeless People recently, highlighting our long and good collaboration with MoSVY, the Ministry of Social Affairs.
Reintegration from Rehab
Closing GreenHouse Doors Mith Samlanh (MS) closed GreenHouse (Drugs Rehabilitation Center) in April 2020. The closure, due to the wider impact of COVID, had a considerable impact upon the organization. It meant that everyone...
Off the Streets, Into Safety
Nighttime is when one of the most vulnerable and at-risk groups in Phnom Penh are most active – sex workers. Our #EverydayHeroes from the Mobile Night Bus (MNB) Team from Mith Samlanh are on...
Holistic Help for Building Futures
One Siem Reap family who are receiving Friends support to adapt to changing situations during the pandemic.
Meeting Needs, and Moving On from COVID
Reaching Out Delivering emergency food support during COVID lockdowns has enabled our #everydayheroes access to many people who have a range of needs that often go beyond simply food security. Through outreach or at...
“Flying” to Better Futures
COVID-19 has knocked down *Rachana’s dream of owning a small business–this promising young Cambodian woman moved to Phnom Penh to further her education after high school but was soon met with a huge roadblock...
Cooking Up A Better Future
For as long as he can remember, *Huan loved making food. Whether it was making it with his mom or trying new dishes with his family, he enjoyed it. He relished all those times...
(Re)Building Futures in Chiang Mai
Peuan Peuan (Friends-International Thailand) and Futures Bangkok teamed up with local NGO ‘Ethnic People Development Foundation’ to support two teenagers, *Pi Chan & *Pi Na (not related) in re-building their futures. Pi Chan &...
Unlocking the Future
Young people are faced with more challenges than ever in getting a job that offers security, a decent income and a positive future career. This is even truer in some developing countries. In Cambodia,...
Children’s Day – Partners In Child Protection
ChildSafe Movement are delighted with the recent recognition of leading travel business G Adventures as the first ChildSafe Certified Global Travel Organization. Certification involved a stringent review of G Adventures processes and policies to...
Voluntourism & Orphanages, Challenges Remain
In Cambodia, Friends-International has worked closely with the Government, other agencies and partnerships such as 3PC, for over ten years now in ending the plight of the thousands of children who have been unnecessarily...
Education for Chenda
A child’s right to education is the centerpiece of this story from one of our Cambodia programs. Chenda* is ten years old and lives with her grandmother and sister in a simple house constructed of zinc...
Joy, first trainee at Let’s Eat Vientiane
Joy* a cheerful 17 year-old girl, started her vocational training at Let’s Eat, our newest restaurant in Vientiane, Laos in August. She was actually the first student to join the training! From Champasak province...
