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...
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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...
Orphanages Place Children At Real Risk
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...
Community Events – A Rough Guide!
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...
G2G Addressing Migrant Issues
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...
Creative Kids Make Stories 4 Strength!
At Friends, we very much believe in nurturing the creative arts in the children we work with, so we were delighted when last month four artists from New York-based Stories 4 Strength traveled to Siem...
To Angkor Wat – from Chong Kneas!
Chong Kneas is a community near the Tonle Sap lake, about 15km from Siem Reap town in Cambodia and around 30km from the historic Angkor temple complex. It’s made up of seven fishing villages where around...
Siem Reap Puppets On Parade 2017!
In this post we pay a visit to Siem Reap, Cambodia, where children from the Friends Kaliyan Mith Siem Reap program (KMSR) have been among many enjoying the carnival atmosphere of the annual Giant...
Yoga Reaps Rewards For Youth!
Yoga is of course a set of methods which promote the mental, physical and spiritual well-being of individuals, so there would seem to be a strong relationship between the discipline of Yoga and the...
138 Wheels For Women In Siem Reap!
This great update comes from Laura in our Kaliyan Mith program in Siem Reap, Cambodia. “On Thursday 12 January, Kaliyan Mith donated 69 bikes to a wide range of our female program beneficiaries with...
THINK! Siem Reap. Now At King’s Road Angkor… And In Review
Suzy from our Siem Reap, Cambodia, program Kaliyan Mith updates us on the success to date of the THINK! exhibition, the background to that exhibition, and the latest venue to host the exhibition. We also...
