‘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...
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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...
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...
Win4Youth Team At Friends. Impressions Part One, Vani & Dai.
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...
Bangkok, BAML & Beads – Building Futures On The 33rd Floor!
This from Thailand Program Director Ann on sharing Friends program approaches with our corporate sector partners… ‘Empowering communities – how rolling up paperbeads leads to better education for children in squatter communities! 15th May,...
‘Listen To The Children…’ One Year On… In Jakarta
One year of outreach in Jakarta… Reflections by our Indonesia Country Program Director, Ghislain Morard. “Today it’s been exactly one year since my colleague Endang and I first went for a long walk in...
Pre School In Siem Reap
A great deal has been going on in our Kaliyan Mith program in Siem Reap over the last few months. The old center has closed and relocated to new premises, new training businesses have...
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...
‘That Was The Year That Was’ – 2013 In Friends!
As we stand on the cusp of 2014, and the 20th Anniversary of Friends-International, please join us in looking back over the last 12 months of our activities and just some of the...
‘Got Milkshakes?’
From Indonesian Country Program Director Ghislain Morard, a story of how our #everydayheroes there are helping families to build better futures. ‘We first met Ibu Ani* about eight months ago when she was begging...
Who Are The #everydayheroes ?
It’s simple really. They are the women and men who work around the clock every day delivering over 1.6 million services each year to the children, young people, families and communities Friends works with....
Indonesia Blog #2 –‘These streets are made for walkin’…’
Our second post in the series on the development of Teman Baik, sees the team hitting the streets of Jakarta, learning about the city, its moods and the habits of the children and families within...
The positive effect of vocational training and family reintegration.
An uplifting story highlighting the positive effect of vocational training and family reintegration. A story from the field by our Kaliyan Mith team in Siem Reap. Vary was 16 years old and living on...
Andong Fathers On The Big Screen(s)!
Andong community on the outskirts of Phnom Penh is now a hive of Home Based Production activity,and a great place to illustrate that as well as female caregivers, male caregivers can be actively involved...
