Bangkok Update
The waters may recede, but the work goes on… as the Bangkok floods slip further from the media glare, Peuan Peuan Country Program Director Ann reflects on the last few hectic weeks and on...
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Shelter from the flood
After assessment of the Bangkok emergency shelters by the Peuan Peuan teams and UNICEF, Peuan Peuan is now poised to deliver services to those children and families in the shelters, especially as the risks...
Where motorways were, now filthy water flows…
‘October 31st – early morning, and a phone call from Thai Public Broadcast Service (Thai PBS) where, 2 days ago, I went to request survival bags for Sapansiri community. I remembered that day well,...
Children of the floods
Out and about over the weekend helping with relief efforts, our Program Director in Bangkok, Ann, has sent us this report on one of the emergency shelters there… ‘The Rajabhat Panakorn University in Bangkok...
‘Together – facing the Bangkok floods with Friends’
‘No power, no (milk) powder… and water, water everywhere, but not the kind to drink…’ Ann in Bangkok writes ‘Another exciting and exhausting day, out and about during this crisis. Thip and Nat came...
Little fishes in the big floods
The flood situation in Bangkok remains critical. Particularly affected among our beneficiaries are those from the Sapansiri community. This from Ann, our Country Program Director in Thailand. ‘ The situation is worsening. The authority...
Bangkok floods latest – situation worsening for vulnerable families and children
Ann, our Country Program director for Thailand has sent us this report on the worsening situation in Bangkok. ‘On Monday 17th October, our outreach team went to Sapansiri Community, which has been severely hit...
Thailand floods – updates from Peuan Peuan
More on how the floods in SE Asia are affecting our project areas. In Thailand, where our Peuan Peuan program is based in Bangkok, the worst flooded areas are Sapansiri Community and the Kredtrakan...
A Day In The Life – One Mother’s Story
In this edition of ‘A Day In The Life’ we are introduced to Vany, a single mother from Cambodia living on the streets of Bangkok. Peuan Peuan is the name of Friends-International’s program in...
Together, UNITED for children!
Manchester United footballing legend Bryan Robson paid a visit to our Peuan Peuan Thailand program activities in Bangkok earlier this month, writes Vuthaya Charoenpol, our country program director for Thailand. Robson, along with Man...
News from the programs
We at Friends-International are delighted to announce that a new country program director (CPD) has been appointed recently to the Peuan Peuan (Thailand) program. Vuthaya Charoenpol (better known to us as Ann) has taken...
A FIRST FOR ‘FRIENDS’ IN THAILAND
Friends-International has become the first international NGO in Thailand to sign up to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which brings together the Royal Thai Government and other agencies to address the issue of the...
Friends-International in Bangkok (Peuan Peuan program)
The recent unrest in Bangkok, Thailand has had a direct effect on children and youth in the capital and also affected the services that Peuan Peuan (Friends in Thai) team has been able to...
Small beads making a big difference to families in Bangkok
The Peuan Peuan team has just started selling its new range of products made by families at the ThaiCraft fairs in Bangkok. The first fair we joined was in December and was busy with...
A day on the streets in Bangkok
The entire Friends-International team in Bangkok (including the admin team) recently conducted a one-day survey on street children in Bangkok. The survey was to try to find out how many street children there are...
