An EverydayHero's life / ChildSafe Alliance / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published January 4, 2023
The successful Sports Day recently held at Dong Bung secondary school in Vientiane, Lao PDR,is a culmination of the hard work and dedication of Ngia Xiong and the #everydayheroes of our Peuan Mit team....
Anousone* has known hard work all his life. His parents are now elderly, talented craftspeople who made their living creating big spoons for decorative purposes, however as they grew older Anousone had to stop...
Friends-International / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs / Restaurants and Shops
by Friends-International · Published August 19, 2022 · Last modified September 2, 2022
Following her 2017 arrest for using drugs in her home, Phimpha* has spent the last five years living in the Vientiane Capital Social Welfare Center. This center is where the government sends the homeless,...
Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published June 28, 2021 · Last modified September 16, 2021
When a local dam collapsed the resulting flash flood took everything away from *Pherm’s family in July 2018. To make matters worse, her little family is buried under a lot of debt in Hadkanxa...
An EverydayHero's life / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published May 6, 2021 · Last modified September 16, 2021
Nakhao Village, Vientiane, Laos–Ms. Pheng, aged 55, a single mother of six children and a grandmother of four, has known Peuan Mit (Friends International Laos) for over six years. Her job is collecting plastics...
An EverydayHero's life / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published January 27, 2021
Excellent and much-needed volunteer action from the #everydayheroes of the Lao PDR Peuan Mit team!
Building futures for young people across Southeast Asia is at the core of what we do and who we are. Many of our students choose to learn skills in cooking and knowledge of the...
Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published April 30, 2019 · Last modified June 20, 2019
Back to 2006. Vientiane, capital of Laos has the greatest concentration of urban poverty in the country, with little or no access to basic rights for the most marginalized people. With limited skills and...
An EverydayHero's life / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published February 26, 2019 · Last modified February 28, 2019
About 30 kilometers south of Vientiane lies a huge dumpsite: the city landfill. Impossible to miss when driving on Road 13: trash as far as the eyes can see, mountains of garbage piling up...
Keo* is originally from a small Hmong community in Luang Prabang province, Laos. He used to live with his parents, his brother and five sisters. His father is growing rice in the land next...
Friends-International / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published September 29, 2018 · Last modified October 3, 2018
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 - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs / Visits
by Friends-International · Published May 22, 2018
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...
Fundraising / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published November 28, 2017
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...
ChildSafe / Events / Friends-International / Indonesia - Teman Baik / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda / Thailand - Peuan Peuan / TREE Alliance
by Friends-International · Published December 31, 2016 · Last modified December 30, 2016
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...
Conferences and Awards / Events / Friends-International / Laos - Peuan Mit / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published February 17, 2016
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...
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