For a Child’s Future
Migration happens when people go in search of opportunities to live better lives. These are opportunities they feel do not exist where they currently live. Individuals, and sometimes entire families migrate, and often this...
Category: News From Our Programs
(Re)Building Futures in Chiang Mai
Peuan Peuan (Friends-International Thailand) and Futures Bangkok teamed up with local NGO ‘Ethnic People Development Foundation’ to support two teenagers, *Pi Chan & *Pi Na (not related) in re-building their futures. Pi Chan &...
Woman on a Mission
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic our #EverydayHeroes are taking action. Samut Prakarn Province, Thailand–Srey Pich*, is using all her capacity to support people at risk in her community. Srey Pich* migrated from...
COVID 19 – Responding To The Global Pandemic
A brief look at a recent report highlighting our range of responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic. (download the full report here) A Year of Global Pandemic Challenges 2020 was an extremely challenging year...
A Look At Laos – Saving Lives
Excellent and much-needed volunteer action from the #everydayheroes of the Lao PDR Peuan Mit team!
Creating Opportunities – Sok’s Story
Friends-International Futures project works to build futures through access to employment. It also helps by creating opportunities to support people who are seeking to build their futures through small business start up. In Sok’s...
FUTURES in the time of COVID-19 – Part Three
FUTURES for all We cross into Lao PDR for this final story from our FUTURES Employment Projects on the impact of COVID-19 on lives, and plans… A Violent Background Growing up in a violent...
FUTURES in the time of COVID-19 – Part Two
Unlocking Opportunities In Part Two of this look at how the Futures team builds futures in the time of COVID-19, the focus falls on two young women, and the challenges they faced in finding...
FUTURES in the time of COVID-19
Part One In Cambodia in 2016 Friends-International (FI) launched a specialized employment project named Futures alongside their ChildSafe Alliance partner M’lop Tapang. Futures provides employment support, including access to job and training opportunities, hard...
Cambodia: 1.5 million children unable to study
Schools are gradually reopening in the Kingdom of Wonder, following strict Standard Operating Procedures defined by the Government aimed at welcoming children in a COVID-19 safe environment. However, not all children have the chance...
Responding to COVID-19
#everydayheroes Taking Action In this post we put the focus on our work to date in combating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. From the COVID task force and administration teams behind the scenes...
Protecting Children, Supporting Families During COVID-19 And Beyond
In 2019, Friends-International programs delivered over 2 million life-saving services to children, youth and families at risk. However, 2020 has added a major risk factor to the many we already address – the global...
Foster care and temporary homes: offering emergency accommodation in times of COVID-19
Across Southeast Asia and in Cambodia specifically, many children are separated from their families. Causes are multiple: poverty, marital instability, social stigma… Most parents who abandon their children are feeling helpless and unable to...
Rebuilding Sanna’s life
In January 2020, Sanna’s house burnt down in the fire that destroyed hundreds of homes in Bak Touk’s district in the north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Today, Sanna has rebounded from adversity and is...
#GivingTuesdayNow: Together We Save Lives
Giving Tuesday is a day to celebrate global solidarity and harness the power of generosity. This year the world celebrates Giving Tuesday Now on May 5th to unite together once again and support those...
