2016 – Reviewing A Year With Friends
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...
Category: Laos – Peuan Mit
Laos Program Success Continues
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...
A Year With Friends – Friends-International Country Programs 2015
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...
Off The Dumpsite!
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,...
New Year News (And More) From Laos
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...
Makphet Hospitality Students Share Their Friends-liness!
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...
ChildSafe Works In Laos
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...
Claymation Time At Peuan Mit!
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...
Luang Prabang Half Marathon: “La Procession”
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...
Praise For Peuan Mit In Vientiane Meeting
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...
Focusing On Young Women’s Health in Lao PDR
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...
Muddy roads, rice farms and wooden bridges – a journey to Latkhouay
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...
A New Career In A New Town
From our Friends Laos team This week, Buavone, case management supervisor and Peuan Mit trainer updated the teams about a young graduate from Makphet, who, after completing her training in 2011, is enjoying a...
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...
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...
