Baby Milk Scam (Revisited)
(This guest post from Laureline, ChildSafe Technical Coordinator for our Siem Reap program in Cambodia, revisits a popular tourist scam which is putting infants at risk in the city and highlights what can be...
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End The Abuse Of Migrant Children – Join The Movement
The world is reacting to an emerging situation in the USA where the protection of children is once more in the spotlight. Specifically migrant and refugee children who are among those most at risk,...
Business Booms For Former Student!
Business is very much a part of the work undertaken by Friends-International programs. As a social enterprise, we ensure hands on experience for our young trainees in real business environments, enabling them to better move...
Protect All Children. Migrants Too.
June 1st is International Children’s Day, and on this day we launch our ‘Protect All Children. Migrants Too.’ campaign to help support the forgotten children – the many thousands of migrant children who face...
Futures Now!
Saturday 28th April saw the start of an amazing new adventure for Friends-International and Cambodia program Mith Samlanh, one that will radically transform the existing Mith Samlanh center in the heart of Phnom Penh into...
Partners In Responsible Tourism!
At the heart of our work (and first in our logo tagline!) is the word ‘Together’. We need strong and dedicated partners which share the same ethos that we have to help change young lives...
Foster Care & Building A Future – Yin
We spoke recently with Pisith, who is the Building Futures Program coordinator at Mith Samlanh, a ChildSafe Alliance and 3PC partner program which operates in Phnom Penh Cambodia. He talked to us about Yin,...
Small Program, Big Impact!
In this post we take a brief look at the broad range of work undertaken by one of the smallest (in staff terms) of the Friends-International programs, the Chom Chao program in Cambodia. Chom...
Back To School Days!
School reintegration is one of the most important education-based functions that Friends-International programs perform. Ensuring that children can access their right to education, and can be supported to stay in school is of vital...
Employment For All – Futures Thailand!
Access to employment is key in ensuring that individuals will have a stable and sustainable future ahead of them. A couple of years ago we took the years of experience we had in working...
Intern Sophea In Siem Reap – A Reflection
Suzy from our Siem Reap program in Cambodia sets the scene before a reflection from our recent intern there, Sophia Sun. “This summer, we were very lucky and happy to have Sophea Sun, a...
Hundreds Of Bikes For Our Siem Reap Women!
Having your own transport, such as a bike, is at once both liberating and empowering, particularly if you live in a remote or inaccessible location. However, what if you simply cannot afford that as...
Bordering On Crisis – Migrants At Risk
The enforcement of a new Royal Decree cracking down on illegal migrant workers in Thailand has resulted in increasing pressure on 3PC partners within the last two weeks who work with migrants at the...
A School Is Born!
Phnom Penh, Cambodia is a fast -growing city. What were once underdeveloped poor community neighborhoods are being targeted by developers, bringing in large workforces to complete massive building projects. These workers most often bring...
3PC – Building Partner Capacity, Creating Protective Networks for Children
How do you go about ensuring that the existing gaps in child protection in Cambodia are addressed effectively? You not only need to effectively connect child protection best practice organizations together, creating a...
