25 Years Of Building Futures – Part Two
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...
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...
25th Anniversary / 3PC / Celebrations / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Movement / Events / Futures Factory / Launches and Openings / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published January 3, 2019
2019 is a very important year indeed for Friends-International. August will mark 25 years since the launch of the very first Friends program, Mith Samlanh, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 25 years on, and that...
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,...
ChildSafe / ChildSafe Movement / Restaurants and Shops / TREE Alliance
by Friends-International · Published March 21, 2018
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...
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...
An EverydayHero's life / ChildSafe / News From Our Programs / Thailand - Peuan Peuan
by Friends-International · Published October 12, 2017
During the recent visit of the Thailand ChildSafe team to our HQ in Cambodia we spent a little time having a brief chat with one of our Child Protection Team #everydayheroes, Ms Pradthana Suwanpiam,...
Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / ChildSafe / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published September 1, 2017 · Last modified August 31, 2017
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...
News From Our Programs / Thailand - Peuan Peuan
by Friends-International · Published August 31, 2017
Impact in the NGO world may sometimes appear to those from outside that world to be entirely defined by numbers – reports featuring x amount of persons reached by x teams, x amount of services delivered,...
ChildSafe / News From Our Programs / Thailand - Peuan Peuan
by Friends-International · Published August 18, 2017
ChildSafe is a global Movement, started in 2005, protecting children across the world by actively involving individuals, travelers, communities, businesses and governments in creating safe protective environments in which children and young people can...
ChildSafe / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Alliance / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published June 7, 2017 · Last modified July 6, 2017
We have spent many years raising awareness of the dangers posed by the unregulated residential care institutions (orphanages) which sprang up across Cambodia over the last decade. Not only are the majority of the...
Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / Events / Kid's events / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published May 10, 2017
Community events play a vital part in reaching out to what are often difficult to reach groups of people with important education and prevention messages. Last week an outreach team from our Cambodian Kaliyan Mith ChildSafe program...
ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Alliance / Conferences and Awards / CYTI Alliance and Our Partners / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published May 3, 2017
We recently highlighted the daily struggle to maintain effective services for those deported persons (many illegal migrants) who are streaming across from Thailand to Cambodia over the Aranyaprathet/Poipet border crossing. Up to 4000 per...
ChildSafe / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Alliance / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published April 26, 2017
With almost 50 partners across the world, the ChildSafe Alliance brings together the expertise, best practice and knowledge sharing of some exceptional organizations dedicated to child welfare. We’ll be taking a closer look at...
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