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...
Laos and Friends-International go back a long way. To 2004 to be exact, when the Peuan Mit (“Good Friends” in Lao) program launched in partnership with the Laos Ministry of Social Welfare in the...
We urgently need your support to help Friends reopen Makphet training restaurant in Laos. Over the past 10 years, Makphet has trained hundreds of disadvantaged youth in Vientiane, Laos. Leaving the streets behind for...
Dear friends of Friends Please join us in looking back at just a very few of the highlights of twelve months during 2016, saving lives and building futures! JANUARY – ChildSafe is a runner-up...
The Peuan Mit program of Friends-International was launched back in 2004. It is a collaboration with the Lao PDR Ministry of Social Welfare, and it provides a comprehensive range of services to children, youth and their families...
As 2015 draws to a close, we look back at a year of our Friends-International program work across South East Asia in the company of some of our real #everdayheroes – our Country Program...
Venny from our Lao PDR project contacted us with some great news this week. The program works with 120 children, youth and caretakers from scavenger families who live on the city dumpsite, KM36,...
It’s been a busy few weeks for our program in Lao PDR, Peuan Mit. New Year celebrations have been in full swing, but before they got underway there was some important work to complete...
During their time in training with Friends our vocational training students don’t just focus on their particular area of study. There are many other things to do, including time to enjoy recreational activities such...
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...
From Kristi, our Technical Advisor to the Peuan Mit Friends program in Lao PDR, a tale of Sticky Fingers that has nothing to do with The Rolling Stones, but a lot to do with...
Congratulations to all who competed in the first ever Luang Prabang Half Marathon: “La Procession”! Over USD$125,000 was raised for our Lao PDR program Peuan Mit! This money will go towards opening a new vocational...
A report from our Friends program in Lao PDR, Peuan Mit, on a big day in Vientiane… ‘Today Peuan Mit had its annual Advisory Committee (AdCom) Meeting with participants including it’s ministry counterpart, the...
This week the Friends Laos Peuan Mit team (with support from the Laotian Ministry of Health) organized and facilitated a focus group discussion at the Drop In Center in Vientiane among out-of school girl...
Last week Kristi, a Technical Advisor with Peuan Mit, traveled to Latkhouay, a community our teams have recently begun working with. On this day the team met with 15 families. A story from the field...
