Blue Jeans and Cool Beads!
Today a team from Levi Strauss & Co., who are corporate supporters of Friends-International, arrived at our Phnom Penh headquarters on a mission. That mission? To find out more about Friends, the work we...
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A Week Of Sharing (and more!) At Friends
This week has seen Friends Board Members, Program Directors, International Coordinators, managers and staff from across the world gathering together in Phnom Penh at the FI HQ building for our annual sharing meeting. This...
Baking And Making A Difference – Thanks To Jessica And Her Friends!
We have some truly fabulous supporters at Friends-International, and one of those is 14 year-old Jessica Brandon from Los Angeles, California. Along with her friends Emma Kofman, and Hannah Kelson, Jessica recently organized a...
Learning together, sharing together! M’Lop Tapang come to Bangkok!
Cambodian Sihanoukville-based NGO M’Lop Tapang is a long standing Friends CYTI Alliance partner. Within the CYTI Alliance, sharing of best practice is a key outcome for Alliance members. So it was with great excitement...
Friends named a ‘successful example of Social Entrepreneurship’ at high-profile NYC event.
Our recently appointed US Funding Officer, Iris Sagi, was in attendance to hear the work of Friends-International being praised at a high profile social entrepreneurship event held last Friday in New York City. The...
‘Foster Care Project, Siem Reap – Baby V’s story’
James Farley, our Social Work Technical Advisor has shared this case study with us about a good outcome for an abandoned baby thanks to our Kaliyan Mith Short Term Foster Care Project in Siem...
‘This case is closed…’ …and now the future really starts!
A success story from our Peuan Mit program in Lao PDR – how referral, vocational training and case management all combined to build a stable future for a young man with a troubled background....
Sebastien in Davos – Part One ‘Training and Employing Youth – Looking To The Future’
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is held in the tiny Swiss town of Davos in chilly January each year. The movers and shakers of the economic world meet there, along with Heads of State,...
Fun Filled Day in Sapansiri!
Vuthaya Charoenpol (Ann), our Country Program Manager for Thailand sent us this recent piece on a fantastic fun-filled day held in one of the communities the Peuan Peuan team works with in Bangkok. ‘Saturday...
Selecting Parent Representatives for Mith Samlanh
(This post from our new Cambodia Communications Officer, Menghourng Ngo) Last Friday morning at Club Friends Mith Samlanh hosted the Parent Representatives Selection which aims to find excellent and talented messengers to transfer information...
‘Breaking The Cycles, Building A Future…’
Marissa Carruthers is a journalist from the UK who is currently writing a series of articles about Friends-International. We are delighted that she has contributed this guest blog post to us, giving her personal...
Friends the (New) Website!
After months of planning, discussion, argument, elation, exhaustion, uploading, downloading, cropping, cutting, pasting and many more words ending in –on, -ent and –ing, we at Friends-International are delighted to be able to share our...
Yoga for beginners! The Chom Chao Emotional Support Group Day Trip…
Joanna Das, our Monitoring and Evaluation Support Officer, writes about a recent trip that proved to be a novel experience for some of the family members we work with in the outer area of...
London Calling…
…to the faraway towns… and the urban centers of South East Asia where Friends primarily work are indeed very far away from London. However, Wednesday 21st November will see a unique one-day exhibition taking...
‘When elephants meet, ants may be crushed…’ *
The practice of ‘cleaning up’ city streets of street living and working populations such as street sellers and beggars during high profile diplomatic meetings or visits is on the increase globally. Recently a spokesperson...
