THINK – Support Families, Not Orphanages
When we launched our ‘Children Are Not Tourist Attractions’ campaign with the support of UNICEF back in 2011 we hoped it would raise awareness and prompt behavior change in the public in relation...
Tagged: child protection
‘THINK!’ Photo Exhibition Siem Reap Launch Event
Last week saw the very successful launch of the ChildSafe ‘THINK!’ Photo Exhibition Siem Reap. The grounds of Marum training restaurant in the city saw around 130 people attending the launch event, who were...
Begging Children – An Exhibition To Make You ‘THINK!’
From 26th November 2014-31 January 2015 the Friends-International (FI) Kaliyan Mith program in Siem Reap will be running a thought-provoking exhibition of images addressing the issue of giving to begging children. Our acclaimed training...
Mith Samlanh Students Present #ENDviolence Campaign In Phnom Penh
Last week saw UNICEF Cambodia and the Royal Government of Cambodia launch a report on the findings of a 2013 survey on violence against children in tandem with a campaign, #ENDviolence , to raise...
‘Bangkok Boy’ – A Story From Peuan Peuan
From Vuthaya Charoenpol (Ann), the Friends Thailand Peuan Peuan Country Program Director comes this story of just one of the many ‘Bangkok Boys’, and how our program works to help them… “Last August, staff...
FACE and Friends – Partners in Building Futures!
We at Friends were over the moon recently at the news that one of our CYTI partners in Egypt, FACE, who operate in Cairo, had won a prestigious award – the WISE Award 2014...
Children (And Dumpsites) Are Not Tourist Attractions – Anlong Pi, Siem Reap
Anlong Pi sounds attractive, doesn’t it? Almost a sing-song quality to the words, reminiscent of other beautiful sounding places like Angkor Wat, or Siem Reap. But there the similarity ends, as Anlong Pi is...
Kaliyan Mith Siem Reap – Meet The Family Reintegration Team!
We are focusing our posts this week on the work of our Kaliyan Mith program in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Reintegration is a core approach of Friends work – into school, into employment, into society,...
Win4Youth Team At Friends, Part Two, ‘Breaking The Cycle’, Emer & Ryushiro.
Adecco Win4Youth offices across the globe are fundraising for chosen organizations through their Win4Youth cycle challenge. Four of the challenge team members won the chance to spend a week seeing the work of one...
Cross-border Child Protection Networks Grow Stronger Between Thailand And Cambodia
This story of #EverydayHeroes in action comes from Vuthaya Charoenpol (Ann), who is the Country Program Director for the Friends program (Peuan Peuan) in Thailand. Friends works both in Bangkok, and on the Thai/Cambodia...
The BAML Amazing Race Bangkok – ChildSafe Style!
Corporate Social Responsibility is a bit of a ‘buzzword’ at the moment… it is vitally important of course that corporates do take responsibility for the social impact of their initiatives and we at Friends,...
A Remork-able Day!
There are currently 2,126 active ChildSafe members in Siem Reap, Cambodia, helping to protect children in the community from all forms of abuse. Many of those members are remork tuk-tuk or motorcycle drivers, and...
Thumbs Up From Our Friends In Japan!
Japanese NGO C-Rights are long term supporters of Friends-International, and have a particular interest in our ChildSafe Network child protection activities. C-Rights work to promote children’s rights in Japan and among many resources provide...
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...
Together, Protecting Children!
Friends-International’s ChildSafe Network is absolutely delighted to have been awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in the field of Child Protection in this week’s Responsible Tourism Awards, held at the World Travel Market in London. We are...
