On The Road
This story comes from our Peuan Mit team who are based in Vientiane in Lao PDR, and highlights an issue that is very much in the news across SE Asia – road safety. Peuan...
Category: Friends-International
Indonesia Blog #1 – ‘Gettin’ started in Jakarta’
Things are moving fast for our Teman Baik program in Indonesia. Country Program Director, Ghislain, gives us a unique insight on their progress. This, a rare opportunity for us to show you how Friends programs...
Andong Fathers On The Big Screen(s)!
Andong community on the outskirts of Phnom Penh is now a hive of Home Based Production activity,and a great place to illustrate that as well as female caregivers, male caregivers can be actively involved...
Family Matters!
On International Families Day, one Cambodian mother recalls how the Mith Samlanh program supported her to keep her family together… ‘My husband died leaving me with six children, so I moved to Phnom Penh...
Microscholarships for Peuan Mit Students!
Last month, the US embassy in Lao PDR approached Peuan Mit to identify youth for an English Access Microscholarship Program as they were striving to find the most disadvantaged students in Vientiane. This highly...
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...
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...
