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 Alliance / ChildSafe Movement / Indonesia - Teman Baik / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published December 7, 2021 · Last modified December 9, 2021
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...
Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / Conferences and Awards / Friends-International / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published October 26, 2021
It was our honor to be invited to speak and present to the Cambodian National Committee for Homeless People recently, highlighting our long and good collaboration with MoSVY, the Ministry of Social Affairs.
ChildSafe / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Movement / Indonesia - Teman Baik / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published August 26, 2021 · Last modified September 16, 2021
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...
by Friends-International · Published February 27, 2020 · Last modified March 1, 2020
ChildSafe Alliance is a global network of NGO partners dedicated to the protection and welfare of children. The recent case of a Cambodian teenager missing for almost two weeks before being found safe and...
by Friends-International · Published December 31, 2019 · Last modified February 19, 2020
We began our 25th Anniversary celebrations in August 2019. 25 years of finding effective and meaningful ways of ‘Together, building futures’ for the many children, youth, families and communities we call our friends. As...
by Friends-International · Published August 6, 2019 · Last modified February 19, 2020
In part one of this look at the origins of Friends-International (FI) we heard how they began building futures with the street children of Phnom Penh. We left the story as the original group...
ChildSafe Alliance / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published March 17, 2019 · Last modified February 19, 2020
Friends-International Thailand (FITH) has been working in the Wat Thai and Rong Wai communities of Bangkok for many years now. Most of the children from these communities, where many families and their children lack...
ChildSafe Movement / Friends-International / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published November 20, 2018
ChildSafe Movement are delighted with the recent recognition of leading travel business G Adventures as the first ChildSafe Certified Global Travel Organization. Certification involved a stringent review of G Adventures processes and policies to...
3PC / ChildSafe / ChildSafe Movement / Friends-International / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published November 8, 2018
In Cambodia, Friends-International has worked closely with the Government, other agencies and partnerships such as 3PC, for over ten years now in ending the plight of the thousands of children who have been unnecessarily...
ChildSafe / ChildSafe Movement / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published August 2, 2018
(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...
ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Movement / Friends-International / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published June 20, 2018
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,...
An EverydayHero's life / Fundraising / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published May 31, 2018
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...
ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Movement / Indonesia - Teman Baik / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda / Thailand - Peuan Peuan
by Friends-International · Published April 6, 2018
Child Protection is a keystone of the holistic approach that the Friends Alliance programs in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Switzerland take to saving Lives and Building Futures for youth, families and communities which...
ChildSafe / ChildSafe Movement / Friends-International / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda / Thailand - Peuan Peuan
by Friends-International · Published February 1, 2018
The ever-expanding global growth of travel and tourism has brought many different ways of ‘getting away from it all’. New variations of ‘experiential’ travel have emerged and are being seized on by the travel industry. These include...
3PC / Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Alliance / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published January 18, 2018 · Last modified January 24, 2018
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,...
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