Km52, A Laos Project
Laos and Friends-International go back a long way. To 2004 to be exact, when the Peuan Mit (“Good Friends” in Lao) program launched in partnership with the Laos Ministry of Social Welfare in the...
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Protection – Sharing Skills, Sharing Knowledge
Child Protection is a keystone of the holistic approach that the Friends Alliance programs in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Switzerland take to saving Lives and Building Futures for youth, families and communities which...
Partners In Responsible Tourism!
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...
Foster Care & Building A Future – Yin
We spoke recently with Pisith, who is the Building Futures Program coordinator at Mith Samlanh, a ChildSafe Alliance and 3PC partner program which operates in Phnom Penh Cambodia. He talked to us about Yin,...
Small Program, Big Impact!
In this post we take a brief look at the broad range of work undertaken by one of the smallest (in staff terms) of the Friends-International programs, the Chom Chao program in Cambodia. Chom...
Friends Thailand, Youth Protecting Youth!
We are very happy to share this exciting event that Peuan Peuan, the Friends Thailand program, recently participated in. We got the full story from Chanthana Le Mouellic, who is the Peuan Peuan Child Protection...
Back To School Days!
School reintegration is one of the most important education-based functions that Friends-International programs perform. Ensuring that children can access their right to education, and can be supported to stay in school is of vital...
Talking A ChildSafe Thailand – Pad Chat!
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,...
Employment For All – Futures Thailand!
Access to employment is key in ensuring that individuals will have a stable and sustainable future ahead of them. A couple of years ago we took the years of experience we had in working...
Intern Sophea In Siem Reap – A Reflection
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...
Impact In Bangkok!
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,...
Hundreds Of Bikes For Our Siem Reap Women!
Having your own transport, such as a bike, is at once both liberating and empowering, particularly if you live in a remote or inaccessible location. However, what if you simply cannot afford that as...
Bordering On Crisis – Migrants At Risk
The enforcement of a new Royal Decree cracking down on illegal migrant workers in Thailand has resulted in increasing pressure on 3PC partners within the last two weeks who work with migrants at the...
A School Is Born!
Phnom Penh, Cambodia is a fast -growing city. What were once underdeveloped poor community neighborhoods are being targeted by developers, bringing in large workforces to complete massive building projects. These workers most often bring...
3PC – Building Partner Capacity, Creating Protective Networks for Children
How do you go about ensuring that the existing gaps in child protection in Cambodia are addressed effectively? You not only need to effectively connect child protection best practice organizations together, creating a...
