2024, The Year We Turned 30!
2024, the thirtieth year of Friends-International, is drawing to a close. Let’s spend just a little time scratching the surface of the incredible activities of our #everydayheroes over the past twelve months! Our year...
Category: ChildSafe Movement
Chanthy – ChildSafe and Creative!
Our Communications Coordinator James spent some time with the Siem Reap teams this week, catching up on the range of work that our Kaliyan Mith (KMSR) #everydayheroes are doing in Cambodia… A Community Afloat...
Sewing Brighter Futures
Xieng Khouang province in Lao PDR is known to be the most heavily bombed place on Earth. This has taken a toll on the health of the Hmong people, an indigenous tribe who live...
Ending Exploitation On The City Streets
This next story is from our Thailand team. It highlights the risks of abuse and exploitation many children face on city streets. It also shows how our #everydayheroes, social workers and ChildSafe Agents, work...
ChildSafe Agents – The Right Support At The Right Time
We’re going to put the focus onto some of the recent work of our #everydayheroes in Thailand in these next couple of posts. We’ll show how integration between our teams and ChildSafe Agents helps...
Saving Ya Chai*
Pattaya, Chonburi Province, Thailand. In a small house lay *Ya Chai, a 12-year old girl who was suffering from severe heart disease. She was having a hard time breathing and all that *Waan, her...
Troubled Youth, Back on Track
*Dara, only 12 years old, has earned a bad reputation in his community. People say things like ‘the boy is up to no good and a persistent problem for his family. He steals when...
Saving ‘New’ Lives in Jakarta
Sumirah,* is a clown beggar, wandering the streets of Jakarta, 8- month old baby in her arms, begging commuters for some small change to help her small family. What they may not have seen,...
A Bite Ends Alright
Saving lives is a normal every day task for ChildSafe Agent *Phanny. It was normal for her to go into her community in Rongklur Market on the Thai border to check on her neighbors...
Off Street Living onto a Better Life
Just two years ago *Sreyoun and her family were living on the Phnom Penh streets by a pagoda. They were homeless and her parents earned barely enough from scavenging to feed their family of...
Active Agent Protecting Her Community!
Mrs. Meta* is very active in her community within the teeming city of Jakarta. Aside from serving as a female community leader, she is also a preschool and Qu’ran studies teacher and an active...
First Steps to a Brighter Future
For as long as 11-year old Cicilia* (everyone calls her Lia) can remember it had always been her and her grandmother, Mrs. Yati. She never met her father and her mother left to remarry...
ChildSafe Agent: Community Protector
The ideal child protection agent is someone who is brave and active because he/she is the one who moves his community to take action in cases of child abuse. That is exactly what Bu...
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...
(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 &...
