Season’s Greetings from Friends-International
Dear friends of Friends, 2010 was another year of changes and challenges for us all at Friends – we’re 16 years old now, and still as motivated and dynamic in our efforts to help...
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BIG smiles on our faces – Friends TEC’s first international order heads to Europe!
The opening of Friends-International’s Training and Employment Center (TEC) in Phnom Penh in early July 2010 saw major changes in our approach to production. Founded on our experience of setting up workshop based production...
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...
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...
Happy Anniversary Friends!
Friends-International celebrated its 15th anniversary on April 2nd at the Mith Samlanh Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with a very special day for children, students, families and staff. There was plenty of games and...
We might be different, but we can still play together
A group of students from Mith Samlanh have been working with International School of Phnom Penh’s (ISPP) Grade 2/3 class over the past few months to explore how children’s rights are being met in...
Celebrating International Women’s Day
To mark the occasion of International Women’s Day, a group of mothers from the Friends-International’s Home Based Production project in Phnom Penh made a trip to Kompong Som, on the coast of Cambodia. It...
Friends-International on TV
Friends-International features in an Episode of BBC World’s ‘Alvin’s Guide to Good Business’ on Saturday 20 March 2010. The broadcast times (all GMT times) are: Sat 20/03/2010 – 02:30, 08:30 Sun 21/03/2010 – 14:30,...
Read it, then wear it!
French magazine Courrier International is making good use of its unsold editions through a partnership with Friends-International. The unsold Courrier International magazines are being made into messenger bags by socially disadvantaged parents, who are...
The Twin Diamonds
Most young people dream of being in a movie and for 10 students from Friends-International, their dream has come true. ‘The Twin Diamonds’, is a 45-minute film made by 60 students from six different...
Friends@240’s stylish reopening
Friends@240 is a creative and interactive fashion studio for hip clothing and accessories, ready-to-wear and made to measure, made by former street youth in training. The shop recently reopened with a special opening party...
Friends-International Executive Director receives Schwab Foundation Asia Social Entrepreneur Of The Year Award
DALIAN/CHINA, 12SEPT09 – •Hilde Schwab (center) , Chairperson and Co-Founder, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, stands with the winners of the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Asia Sarah Mavrinac (left), Sebastien Marot...
15 Years of Friends-International
The very first group of street children to be helped by Friends-International in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on August 1, 1994. Fifteen years later, Friends-International continues to provide support to marginalised urban children and youth...
A new award for Friends-International
Friends-International’s Executive Director, Sébastien Marot, has been selected as one of the EastAsia/Southeast Asia regional winners of the 2009 Social Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Sébastien will join the global network of 160 outstanding...
Friends-International and SilkAir Launch Partnership in Singapore
Phnom Penh, Cambodia Friends-International and Silk Air recently launched the start of their new partnership in Singapore. As part of its 20th Anniversary celebrations, Silk Air has selected Friends-International as the NGO that they...
