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...
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Family Matters!
On International Families Day, one Cambodian mother recalls how the Mith Samlanh program supported her to keep her family together… ‘My husband died leaving me with six children, so I moved to Phnom Penh...
Microscholarships for Peuan Mit Students!
Last month, the US embassy in Lao PDR approached Peuan Mit to identify youth for an English Access Microscholarship Program as they were striving to find the most disadvantaged students in Vientiane. This highly...
Blue Jeans and Cool Beads!
Today a team from Levi Strauss & Co., who are corporate supporters of Friends-International, arrived at our Phnom Penh headquarters on a mission. That mission? To find out more about Friends, the work we...
A Week Of Sharing (and more!) At Friends
This week has seen Friends Board Members, Program Directors, International Coordinators, managers and staff from across the world gathering together in Phnom Penh at the FI HQ building for our annual sharing meeting. This...
Baking And Making A Difference – Thanks To Jessica And Her Friends!
We have some truly fabulous supporters at Friends-International, and one of those is 14 year-old Jessica Brandon from Los Angeles, California. Along with her friends Emma Kofman, and Hannah Kelson, Jessica recently organized a...
Graduation Day!
Menghourng Ngo reports on the excitement and achievement of the Mith Samlanh graduation ceremony held last week in Phnom Penh. ‘On Friday last week, Mith Samlanh held a graduation ceremony for its students at...
Learning together, sharing together! M’Lop Tapang come to Bangkok!
Cambodian Sihanoukville-based NGO M’Lop Tapang is a long standing Friends CYTI Alliance partner. Within the CYTI Alliance, sharing of best practice is a key outcome for Alliance members. So it was with great excitement...
Friends named a ‘successful example of Social Entrepreneurship’ at high-profile NYC event.
Our recently appointed US Funding Officer, Iris Sagi, was in attendance to hear the work of Friends-International being praised at a high profile social entrepreneurship event held last Friday in New York City. The...
‘Foster Care Project, Siem Reap – Baby V’s story’
James Farley, our Social Work Technical Advisor has shared this case study with us about a good outcome for an abandoned baby thanks to our Kaliyan Mith Short Term Foster Care Project in Siem...
A cut above – the former glue user’s story.
One hand holds the customer’s hair, the other moves deftly with scissors, as former glue user Srey Phear*, 20, concentrates happily on the new hair style she is creating for her customer. She is...
An (International Women’s) Day in the Life of Sia and Davanh!
For International Women’s Day, we focus on two of our amazing female staff from the Peuan Mit program in Lao PDR. Let’s meet Davanh Keoninanluck, the school follow-up and case manager (part of the...
‘This case is closed…’ …and now the future really starts!
A success story from our Peuan Mit program in Lao PDR – how referral, vocational training and case management all combined to build a stable future for a young man with a troubled background....
On The Ball in Siem Reap!
Sport is a great way to build confidence in marginalized young people. This half-time report on the mixed fortunes of our Kaliyan Mith youth football teams in Siem Reap from our man on the...
Sebastien in Davos – Part One ‘Training and Employing Youth – Looking To The Future’
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is held in the tiny Swiss town of Davos in chilly January each year. The movers and shakers of the economic world meet there, along with Heads of State,...
