ChildSafe – A Global Gold Standard In Child Protection
11 years ago Friends-International set up a project that aimed to protect children from all risks and forms of abuse. They gave it a very simple and direct name – ChildSafe. The first steps...
ChildSafe / Conferences and Awards / Events / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published November 18, 2016
11 years ago Friends-International set up a project that aimed to protect children from all risks and forms of abuse. They gave it a very simple and direct name – ChildSafe. The first steps...
ChildSafe / CYTI Alliance and Our Partners / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published October 18, 2016
Recently we received an email from supporter Cherrie in Beijing, China. If you recall, she was the leader of the young group of Friends and ChildSafe supporters from the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China...
Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / ChildSafe / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published September 30, 2016 · Last modified September 29, 2016
Salabai Hotel & Restaurant School in Siem Reap, Cambodia have been offering ChildSafe training to their students since 2008, when Ampor (current Director of Friends Kaliyan Mith Program) was the director of the School. They sought...
Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published September 27, 2016
Back in August the Kaliyan Mith ChildSafe team organized a screening of the movie “The Voluntourist” at the Hangout Hostel in Siem Reap. “The Voluntourist”, directed by Chloe Sanguinetti, puts the spotlight onto some young...
ChildSafe / CYTI Alliance and Our Partners / Friends-International / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published July 20, 2016
The ChildSafe Alliance team recently went to Poipet on the Cambodia/Thai border in order to support partner NGO Damnok Toek in the opening of a much needed ChildSafe Drop In Center in Mongkol market:...
Conferences and Awards / CYTI Alliance and Our Partners / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published June 29, 2016
Thanks to the support of ‘Apprentis d’ Auteuil ‘, our head of Partnerships and Technical Support Sebastien Le Mouëllic was recently able to attend a fascinating ‘Community of Good Practice’ seminar in Brazzaville, Congo, held on...
The work of Friends-International has always been informed by listening to children and young people, responding to their needs and ensuring through our projects and initiatives that their rights are being met. It’s particularly...
Presentations form a very important part of our work at Friends. Sharing new ideas, information updates and more among our teams and partners happens very regularly across our programs. Then there are the many...
More than thirty million people live across the gigantic urban sprawl that is Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. Jakarta is also home to a small but very dedicated Friends program, Yayasan Teman Baik. Since it relocated...
Tina Cho is a Korean social worker who is with us in Phnom Penh for a few months, volunteering to support the ChildSafe Movement. She very kindly agreed to share some of her thoughts...
We have some amazing supporters across the world, and we are always extremely grateful for their support to our work. In Beijing, China, at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China (RDFZ),...
Conferences and Awards / Events / Friends-International / Laos - Peuan Mit / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published February 17, 2016
The Peuan Mit program of Friends-International was launched back in 2004. It is a collaboration with the Lao PDR Ministry of Social Welfare, and it provides a comprehensive range of services to children, youth and their families...
Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / Indonesia - Teman Baik / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda / Thailand - Peuan Peuan
by Friends-International · Published December 31, 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, we look back at a year of our Friends-International program work across South East Asia in the company of some of our real #everdayheroes – our Country Program...
Back in 2011 ChildSafe, the global child protection initiative created by Friends-International, launched a campaign designed to make the world sit up and take notice. ‘Children Are Not Tourist Attractions‘ matched an inarguable premise (who...
Friends-International / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published September 21, 2015
Maelle is our new Vocational Training Business Advisor at Friends-International. We’re sharing this piece she wrote for her own blog, about her early impressions of our work from her orientation week. The orientation is...
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